YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED
In "Your Opportunity to Succeed," we will take a very close look at the two vital ingredients for true and lasting success: desire and work! As we analyze these components and take them out of the realm of theory and understand how to apply them, we will gain ideas and information that will help us now, as well as in our careers of the future!
Table Of Contents
FOUNDATIONS FOR YOUR SUCCESS ...... 5
BUILDING YOUR WINNING ATTITUDE ...... 49
YOUR SELF-IMAGE IS IMPORTANT ...... 85
BUILDING WINNING RELATIONSHIPS ...... 129
SETTING AND REACHING YOUR GOALS ...... 163
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED...... 203
* What Do 1 Really Think? ...... 204
*The'Equalizer...... 205
How To Create Desire ...... 206
Call Out The Reserves ...... 207
*Character ...... 209
Intelligent Ignorance ...... 210
Making Lemonade ...... 212
Workers Are Winners ...... 213
Understanding Work ...... 214
* Work: The Price We Enjoy ...... 215
Time Is Money ...... 216
This Way To A Raise ...... 217
Getting Your Raise ...... 218
* Surrender A 'Little;' Lose A Lot...... 219
First - Get Started ...... 220
My Resume ...... 221
Applying For A Job ...... 272
* Patience, Persistence and Perspiration ...... 223
My "Successful Person" Interview ………………………………...... 225
Priming, Pumping and Producing ...... 226
Pumping For Success ...... 227
Success Doesn't Come Easily...... 228
* My Success Principles ...... 229
*David And Goliath ...... 230
What About Me?...... 233
* Check-Up From the Neck Up ...... 234
*Graduation ...... 235
*The Beginning ...... 236
Success comes when
preparation meets opportunity!
HOW TO CREATE DESIRE
Objectives: • To understand how to create desire and develop specific ideas to build desire in the students
Time Required: Part I - 20 minutes
Reports- Allow 2 minutes per team (including time to write "I Likes")
Part II- 5 minutes
Additional Materials Required: One 3 x 5 notecard per student
"I Like... Because" slips
Procedure:
1. Divide the class into teams of four to six people. Select a leader for each team.
2. Read the instructions for Part I A aloud. Allow 3 minutes for this discussion. After three minutes, move the teams
onto Part I B. You may choose to list their responses on the board. Once you have five to seven examples, move
the class onto Part I C by reading the instructions aloud You will want to make sure the teams spend most of their
time on the brainstorming section of Part I C.
3. Allow the teams 10 minutes to brainstorm. When they have been working for eight minutes, announce:
"You have two minutes to finish ... Two Minutes."
4. When the teams have completed Part I, have each team report their ideas for each category. Record these on the
board so they can be seen clearly. You may choose to have the class write "I Likes."
5. Read the instructions for Part II aloud. Hand out the 3 x 5 notecards so that they can write the ideas down on the
card and keep it with them the entire week as a reminder. Allow the student five minutes to complete Part II
individually.
6. End this activity by reading or paraphrasing the following:
"You can "create the desire in others to be better. I challenge you to review the four ideas you have
written on your card daily. In our next class, we will discuss the ways you implemented these ideas."
My Special Notes;
HOW TO CREATE DESIRE
Desire allows the person with less ability to compete successfully with those who have more ability ... because those with less ability, but greater desire, use more of what they have!
Part I. A. Working as a team, discuss the statement above. Do you believe it is true or false? Why?
B. In what ways have you observed this principle in action?
C. We need to understand how to create this kind of desire with our family and classmates. Continuing to work as a team, brainstorm specific ways in which you can create desire in school and at home:
School:
Home:
Part II. Working individually, pick out the two ideas from each category that you will USE this week and list below.
A.School
1.
2.
B. Home: 1.______
2.______