1. Integrating The Pacific Institute (TPI) Thought Patterns for Success

2.  Emotional learning in addition to content learning  Self-Efficacy – one’s belief in their ability to succeed in a situation. Higher self-efficacy leads to stronger commitment to achieving goals (i.e. program completion, graduation)  Positive Attitude is recognized as the second highest ranking “soft skill” required in the workplace

3.  Attitude is your feeling, emotion, or perception  Positive attitude allows you to see value of tasks  Negative attitude indicates avoidance of tasks  Change your thoughts Change your attitude

4.  Attitude is connected to feelings, emotions, and perception of tasks, situations, experiences, individuals  Positive – you seek value or benefit which stimulates your thoughts  Negative – avoidance based on your perception or prior experiences

5.  Your attitude leads you toward or away from what you want to achieve.  What attitudes are conducive for success?  Be aware of your attitude of a task, situation, etc.  Is your perception negative or positive? Why?  If negative, is this reasonable and rational?  Look at it differently – take a different perspective Change the way you approach tasks, situations, experiences, individuals by changing your thoughts

6.  Use positive self-talk  Focus on solutions, value, and benefit  Look at it from a different perspective  Your thoughts are correlated to your attitude Thoughts Beliefs Attitudes Change your thoughts, change your attitude

7. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes."