Chapter 14Copyright 2002 Houghton Mifflin Company - All Rights Reserved 1 Navigating Your Future: Principles for Student Success Chapter Fourteen Building the Foundation for Your Life Navigating Your Future: Principles for Student Success By James G. Beierlein & Barbara K. Wade Chapter Fourteen Building the Foundation for Your Life

Chapter 14Copyright 2002 Houghton Mifflin Company - All Rights Reserved 2 Elements of a Successful Life Understand who you are and what you want out of life Constantly seek to learn more about who you are and what you want to be Have life goals Make a personal commitment to achieve your life goals Take personal responsibility for what happens to you Understand who you are and what you want out of life Constantly seek to learn more about who you are and what you want to be Have life goals Make a personal commitment to achieve your life goals Take personal responsibility for what happens to you

Chapter 14Copyright 2002 Houghton Mifflin Company - All Rights Reserved 3 The Role of Attitude in a Successful Life Be open-minded to new ideas and experiences Be whole-hearted in your commitment to your life goals Be responsible for your actions and their consequences Be open-minded to new ideas and experiences Be whole-hearted in your commitment to your life goals Be responsible for your actions and their consequences

Chapter 14Copyright 2002 Houghton Mifflin Company - All Rights Reserved 4 Continue Your Personal Growth Your personal growth and life planning do not end when you finish this course This is just the next chapter in a long book Continue your personal journal - it is the best way to know what you are thinking Goal of a college education - learning to think for yourself This is the commencement of your lifelong learning Your personal growth and life planning do not end when you finish this course This is just the next chapter in a long book Continue your personal journal - it is the best way to know what you are thinking Goal of a college education - learning to think for yourself This is the commencement of your lifelong learning

Chapter 14Copyright 2002 Houghton Mifflin Company - All Rights Reserved 5 “I can not believe that the purpose of life is to be ‘happy.’ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter; to count, to stand for something, to have made a difference that you lived at all.” ---Leo C. Rosten, noted author, in a speech delivered at the National Book Awards, March 1962 reported in Library Journal, 4 June 1962, pg The Foundation for A Successful Life