1. Mapping Your Path to Success
Chapter 1
“Dare to begin! He who postpones
living rightly is like the man who
waits for the river to run out
before he crosses.”
-Horace

2. N.O.W
• The letters N-O-W can help you remember the
three key points that are important to planning
the future.
▫ N – New Skills
▫ O – Orientation to new settings
▫ W – World-wise view

3. New Skills
• You may have been accustomed to having
parents, teachers, or even friends tell you what
to do.
• Now you are becoming more independent and
you are making more choices for yourself.
• You may not feel comfortable but you will be
required to develop new skills (abilities to
successfully complete tasks).

4. Orientation
• When you walk into most malls, you see a map
showing the location of the stores, etc.
• However, the YOU ARE HERE is the most
helpful information on the map.
• It helps you get oriented (knowing where you are
in relation to everything else) so that you can
decide which direction to go.

5. World-wise View
• No matter the size of your immediate
world, changes in technology, such as the
Internet, can bring you information quickly from
places very far away.
• This easy access to people and events around the
world has probably given you a world-wise view
(helping you understand that you live in a very
big world).

6. Key Terms
• Careers – People‟s life work • Responsibility – accepting the
• Roles – The behavior others blame or praise
expect of you because of your • Quality – How good
position. something is
• Self-management – taking • Evaluating – Determining how
good care of yourself good something is or how well
• Policies – Rules, or ways of a person did
acting • Quantity – How much you do
• Procedures – Ways of doing or how hard you try
things

7. Developing Skills in Self-Management
• Self-management means that you take the
responsibility for what you do.
• Part of taking responsibility is evaluating two
factors: the quality and the quantity of your
behavior accordingly.
• To successfully manage yourself, you must
understand the role of evaluations and then
respond the right way to evaluations.

8. Understand the Role of Evaluations
• You make evaluations everyday.
▫ For Example, “You buy the latest recording of your
favorite music group. Then you evaluate it by
deciding whether the music is good or bad.”
• You are evaluated on a daily basis in school.
▫ Graded assignments and projects, tests, and grade
reports are feedback from your teachers.
• Sometimes the feedback is informal, such as a
“good job” note from a teacher or a “thank you”
from a co-worker.

9. Respond Appropriately to Evaluations
• Your response to an evaluation, whether it is a
self-evaluation or an evaluation from someone
else, is a critical part of the self-management
process.
• When you use evaluations to improve your
performance, you are demonstrating skills in
managing yourself.

10. Self-Checklist
• This checklist you can use to decide whether you
are skillful in managing yourself:
▫ You do not blame anyone else for what happens to
you.
▫ You do not try to control anyone else.
▫ You take credit for what you do right.
▫ You admit it when you make mistakes.
▫ You promise to learn from every mistake.
▫ You think about the results of your actions before
you act.

11. Self-Management Skills
At School On The Job
• Attendance • Attendance
• Come to school every day • Come to work every day
• Punctuality • Punctuality
• Be on time • Be on time
• Good attitude • Good attitude
• Work cooperatively with • Work cooperatively with
others others
• Basic skills • Basic skills
• Be able to • Be able to
read, write, talk, listen and read, write, talk, listen and
compute well compute well
• Problem solve • Problem solve

12. Key Terms
• Feedback – Performance • Global – Relating to the entire
evaluations world
• Personal Transition – An • Strategies – Planning tools
important change in your • Prioritizing – Ranking a list of
personal or work life items according to importance
• Observe – To follow the rules • Oriented –Knowing where you
or to watch someone are in relation to everything
• Consequences – Results else
• Deadline – A date or time
when a project, report, or
assignment must be finished

13. Getting Oriented
• Life is filled with changes.
• Each time you make a
personal transition, you must
become oriented.
• These personal transitions can
be exciting, depressing, and
frightening.

14. Learn the Policies and Procedures
• Every school, workplace, and community has
policies and procedures.
• These policies and procedures are a map that
guides people‟s choices and behaviors.
• When employees choose to observe workplace
policies, they benefit – as do their co-
workers, employers, and customers.

15. Recognize Consequences
• Understanding what you gain if you follow the
requirements (and what you lose by not
following them) is critical in today‟s world.
• When you have a deadline in the workplace, it
means that your work must be finished at a
certain time.
• During the Civil War, a „deadline‟ was the line
that surrounded a prison. Prisoners who stepped
over the line could be shot dead.

16. Accept Responsibility
• Three keys to self-management and becoming
oriented to your surroundings include the
following:
▫ Know what is expected of you.
▫ Meet those expectations or ask for help if you
cannot meet them.
▫ Change your behavior if necessary.

17. Getting a World-Wise View of Life
• Getting a world-wise view of life means that you
gain an awareness of the world and your place in
it.
• The changes in technology have made contact
between people of different countries and on
different continents much easier.
• Because of developments in technology, global
competition, and people‟s demands, companies
must change. Those changes mean that workers
have to change jobs and careers more often.

18. Planning for Success
• Success will not just
fall into your lap.
• You will have to
decide what you want
and then create a map
for getting there.

19. Develop a Plan
• These simple procedures can help you from
getting overloaded at the last minute of falling
behind.
▫ Use a planner to keep track of your activities and
responsibilities.
▫ Make a list of everything you have to do according
to each deadline.
▫ Try to stay a little ahead in all your classes.
▫ Stay healthy and have a balanced life.

20. What to do if you are falling behind…
• Tell your teacher that you need help. He might
not be available for tutoring but probably can tell
you where to go for help.
• Form a study group with classmates. Sometimes
hearing another explanation can suddenly make
a confusing subject clear.

21. Strengthen Your Study Skills
• One of the first steps for success in school or in
your career is to know how to study.
• While you are in high school, establish good
study habits.
• The habits you form now can help you the rest of
your life.

22. Study Tips
• Study on purpose.
▫ The study habit does not come naturally to most
people. It takes work and time to develop.
• Start now.
▫ It is never too early or too late to begin good study
habits.
• Find the best time.
▫ Choose a time of day to study when you can
concentrate.

23. Study Tips Cont.
• Commit.
▫ Make a plan and stick to it.
• Do not get distracted.
▫ Try to avoid distractions whenever possible.
• Set the stage.
▫ Have good light, a table or desk, and having school
supplies and references available.
• Use a system.
▫ One system you can use is the 3 R‟s routine:
Read, React, and Remember.

24. Write SMART Goals
• You know that your goal is well-written when it
contains this information.
▫ Specific
 How can you tell when you achieve the goal?
▫ Measurable
 Can you tell how close or how far away from your goal
you are?
▫ Achievable
 Can you reach the goal?
▫ Realistic
 Are you willing to do whatever it takes to reach the goal?
▫ Timed
 Do you have a deadline?