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Mental and Emotional Health

Important Vocabulary:

1)Mental and Emotional Health – your ability to deal in a reasonable way with the stresses and changes of daily life

2)Resilient – ability to bounce back from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis

3)Personality – a special mix of traits, feelings, attitudes and habits

4)Self-Concept – the view you have of yourself

5)Self-Esteem – confidence and pride you have in yourself

6)Empathy – the ability to identify and share another person’s feelings

Graffiti You

To have positive mental and emotional health it is important to have a positive attitude in all areas of your life, accept your limitations, have realistic goals, a positive view of yourself, know your feelings, accept responsibility for your actions, and also accept constructive feedback. Now, imagine you were told to spray your bedroom walls with quotations, sayings, and other items that reveal your personality traits. Unfortunately, you will not be given a can of spray paint; however, you are being given a blank piece of paper to treat like your bedroom wall where you can write quotations, sayings, slogans and so on that describe and reveal your likes, passions, and personality. Below is a list of required items.

You must graffiti

  • At least five adjectives describing your personality.
  • At least three of your strengths and three of your weaknesses (Having a realistic and positive self-concept requires you to have an accurate awareness of your strengths and weaknesses).
  • At least one quote that helps promotes good mental/emotional health, positive self-esteem and a positive self-concept.
  • At least three of your interests.
  • A goal you have for the school year.
  • A goal you have for the future.

Sample quotes:

  • Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” ~ Tom Hopkins
  • “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
  • Whether you think you can or think you can't — you are right. ~Henry Ford
  • Success comes in cans, not cant’s. ~Author Unknown
  • Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
  • Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
  • Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
  • Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
  • It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty
  • The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown
  • Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
  • I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
  • “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work,and learning from failure.”- Colin Powell
  • “If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always anotherchance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” Mary Pickford
  • You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”- Wayne Gretzky
  • “Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle.” Marilyn Monroe
  • Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
  • Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Elbert Hubbard
  • You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. Joyce Meyer
  • When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. Harvey Mackay
  • Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. Matt Cameron
  • Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. Michael Jordan
  • It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. Betty White
  • The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know. Kristin Armstrong
  • I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in. Roger Clemens
  • Don’t let people disrespect you. Surround yourself with positive people. Cuba Gooding Jr
  • Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain. Robert A. Cook