1. Positive Attitude: Key to Your Success
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2. Upon completion of this module, students will be able
Module Objective
Upon completion of this module, students will be able
to demonstrative
a positive attitude.
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3. Think . . . First Impressions are Lasting Impressions
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4. What is Attitude? General outlook on life Feeling or emotion
The way we choose to react
to people and situations
Positive or negative
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5. Why is Learning About Attitudes Important?
We can be more successful if we have a positive attitude.
People who have a positive attitude are generally happier.
More employees lose their jobs because of poor attitudes than because of poor work skills.
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6. How is our Attitude Developed?
1. By following other role models
2. Media
80% of people let others
control their thinking %!
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7. Choose Your Attitude! We choose to feel good about life.
We choose to look on the
bright side of things or
to be miserable and find
the worst in everything.
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8. Does our past affect our attitude?
The environment we are raised in can affect our attitude both positively and negatively.
We cannot change the past, but
we can learn from our past.
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9. Successful People who Choose a Positive Attitude
The first time Michael Jordan tried out for the high school basketball team, he was cut!
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10. Successful People who Choose a Positive Attitude
Oprah Winfrey grew up
in a poor family and was sexually abused.
She rebelled by engaging
in delinquent behavior.
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11. They Made Choices They learned from their past,
Didn't let their past hold them back,
AND
Didn't give up!
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12. They Made Choices They: Weren't afraid to ask for help.
Had confidence and believed
they would make it, AND
Had high expectations for themselves!
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13. Positive Self-Talk
Self-talk is that "voice" inside our head that says negative things and positive things.
Negative: "I feel stupid."
Positive: "I'm not going to make that same mistake again."
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