Strategies For College Success
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Email
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A feature that lets a computer user send a text message to someone at another computer using the internet.
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Discussion Board
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An electronic communication system that allows users to leave messages and to review messages of others.
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Chat
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A network of internet servers through which individual users can hold real-time online conversations.
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Instant Messaging
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A type of real-time chat that enables the user to conduct a private chat with one or more other users.
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Email Attachments
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A file or any file form (such as a word processing document or picture) that is attached to an email.
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Radio Button
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A small circle beside an option that I may choose.
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Blog
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A website that displays personal journal entries by one or more individuals in chronological (or reverse chronological) order and may have links to readers' comments on specific postings.
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Listserv
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A mailing list manager used for distribution of email among the list's members.
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Podcast
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A type of audio file that is shared using the Internet and play using a personal computer, Apple iPod, or other MP3 player.
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Antivirus Software
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A utility that checks emails, memory, and disks for computer viruses and removes those that it finds.
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Adobe Acrobat PDF
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Facilitates sharing files between users by moving documents into a standardized file format (PDF) that can be viewed and printed using software that is available for free to users.
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HTML
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A file format for files available on the World Wide Web.
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Web Browser
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A software application used to locate and display web pages.
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F2F
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Face-to-face classes (traditional classroom settings).
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Emoticon
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Symbols used in email and texting that express the writer's emotions to the message receiver, such as :)
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Inner Success
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Enjoying learning, following personal interests, focusing on personal values, creating fulfilling lives.
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Outer Success
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High grades, sports victories, social popularity, college degrees.
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Journal
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A written record of my thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams.
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Success
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Staying on course to my desired outcomes and experiences, creating wisdom, happiness, unconditional self-worth along the way.
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Wise Choices
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The main ingredient of success.
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Core Beliefs
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Deep unconscious beliefs about the world (the world is safe or dangerous, people can/can't be trusted, I'm worthy/not worthy)
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Victims
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Keep doing the same things they've been doing, even when it doesn't work.
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Creators
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Change their beliefs and behaviors to create the best results they can.
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Personal Responsibility
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Believing I can create everything in my life.
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Inner Critic
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Internal voice that judges you as inadequate.
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Inner Defender
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Internal voice that judges others.
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Inner Guide
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Inner voice that seeks to make the best of any situation.
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DAPPS
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Five qualities of a goal (dated, achievable, personal, positive, and specific).
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Commitment
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Creates method.
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Visualization
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Mentally rehearsing purposeful actions and outcomes.
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Affirmation
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Claiming my desired personal qualities.
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V x E = M
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Formula for determining my level of motivation.
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Motivation
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Surges up from a commitment to a passionately held purpose.
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Effective Self-Management
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Making choices that maximize the time I spend in Quadrants I and II.
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Next Actions List
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Records everything (in QI and QII actions to complete).
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Tracking Form
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Scheduling, planning, and monitoring actions I consider important to reaching my goals.
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Focus
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Self discipline in action. Inner Guide asks:'What are my goals and dreams?'
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Persistence
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Self discipline in thought! Guide asks:'Do I love myself enough to keep going?'
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Success Identity
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Building self confidence by stacking one small victory upon another.
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Thinking Learners
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Ask \"what\" questions. Enjoy pondering facts, like lectures, library research, and logical facts to arrive at linear, reasoned answers.
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Doing Learners
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Ask \"how\" questions. Enjoy taking action, like working in labs, hands-on practical applications and dive right in and do the work.
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Feeling Learners
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Ask \"who\" or \"why\" questions. Enjoy personal connections and emotionally supported environments. Value teachers who are warm and caring. Honor their emotions and seek answers that are personally meaningful. Like working in groups.
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Innovating Learners
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Ask \"what if\" or \"what else\" questions. Enjoy seeking new possibilities, imagining unseen futures. Value teachers who encourage new and innovative applications and allow them to use their intuition to create something new. Benefit from the freedom to work independently.
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Self Sabotage
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Making choices that work against your goals and dreams.
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Unconscious Forces
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Experiences from your past that linger long after your conscious mind has forgotten them.
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Scripts
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Responding automatically to cues in your environment.
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Thought Patterns
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Habitual self-talk (I'm too busy, I'm good at math, I always screw up)
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Emotional Patterns
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Habitual feelings (anger, excitement, anxiety, sadness, joy)
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Behavior Patterns
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Habitual actions (smoking cigarettes, always arriving on time, never asking for help, exercising regularly)
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Attributions
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Qualities that tell you how you are or how you should be (good, quiet, confident, smart)
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Injunctions
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Qualities that tell you how you are not or should not be (don't feel, don't talk back, don't trust, don't love yourself, don't be happy, don't get angry)
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Scripts
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Directs you to respond automatically based on earlier learning.
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Rewriting Scripts
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Recreating your self-defeating thinking to support creator thoughts, behaviors, and actions.
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Success Rules
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Show up, do your best work, participate actively.
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Emotional Self-Awareness
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Knowing your feelings in the moment.
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Emotional Self-Management
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Managing strong feelings.
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Social Awareness
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Empathizing accurately with other people's emotions.
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Relationship Management
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Handling emotions in relationships with skill and harmony.
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Flow States
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Highly enjoyable periods of time.
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Creative Flow
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The interaction of two factors (the challenge I perceive I am facing and the skills I perceive that I possess to handle the challenge).
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Personality
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A complex set of tendencies, behaviors, attitudes and characteristics that make each person unique.
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Aptitude
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An indication of your ability to learn in a given area.
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Skills
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Special attributes, talents, and personal qualities that you bring to a job, as well as the tasks you learn on the job.
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Interest
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Something that you like to do that gives you satisfaction, and arouses your attention or curiosity.
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Ability
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Your strength and competencies in doing an activity.
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Special Knowledge Skills
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Skills that identify your competence in a given area.
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Adaptive Skills/Self-Management Skills
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Personal qualities you use in your occupation, people skills.
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Functional Skills
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Skills you can use in a variety of jobs (or most jobs).
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Aptitudes
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Your natural gifts to learn in a given area.
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Values
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Self-Motivators that indicate what you consider most important in your life and reflect what you actually do with your time and your life.
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Leisure
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Time free of required paid or unpaid work.
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The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
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The Occupational Outlook Handbook
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Industry
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A branch of an art or trade that employees people to produce or distribute goods or to provide services; a group of similar organizations.
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Position
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Group of tasks to be performed by one person; in industry, performed for pay; Positions exist whether vacant or occupied and are task, outcome but not person-oriented.
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Occupation
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A group of similar jobs found in various organizations, that are economy, society and task-oriented.
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Organization
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A specific institution, company, independent or autonomous entity producing or distributing goods and services.
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Job
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Series of tasks or activities performed within the scope of what is called work.
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The DOT
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The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
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Career
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An integration of a person's personality with his/her job activities.
