1. Activity Sheet:
Overcoming Negative Success Indicators
NAME: Denise Hawkes
Directions: Below, you will find a list of some of the most common negative success indicators
for students today. Develop at least two positive strategies to overcome each indicator.
Making excuses and blaming others:
1. taking responsibility for you actions.
2. owning up to your mistakes
Tardiness (late for classes):
1. give yourself enough time to get to your destination.
2. get everything situated before it’s time for you to go somewhere.
Avoiding responsibility:
1. Not procrastinating your responsibilities.
2. force yourself to get thing done in a timely manner.
Partying over studying:
1. choose to study to do great on a test.
2. choosing to stay focus on your classes instead of having distractions.
Apathy:
1. push yourself to have interest in something.
2. try things that will get your attention. Like a certain book or a certain subject in school.
No focus or goals
1. start taking life more serious to better yourself.
2. set a standard for yourself. Want more out of life.
Pessimism:
1. be more positive start to say out loud that good things will happen.
2. have a better outlook on life. Surround yourself around positive people.
Social isolation (shyness):
1. make yourself interact with others.
2. join study groups so you can get use to being around a lot of people who you will have to
discuss issues with.
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