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Celebrating Success: Keeping Score for Personal Growth

Learn how to shift your focus from failures to successes in order to build on your achievements and improve self-esteem. Discover the power of keeping track of your successes, retraining your brain, and competing with yourself for personal growth.

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Celebrating Success: Keeping Score for Personal Growth

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  1. Principle #17 Keep Score of Your Success and Build on It

  2. What does this mean? “You can’t build on failure; you can only build on success.” -Anthony Robbins

  3. In your notes, brainstorm ideas for the T-chart below. Think About It (5 Minutes) Mistakes I’ve Made in the Last Month Successes I’ve Achieved in the Last Month Now circle the side of the T-Chart you focus more of your attention on.

  4. Behavior Response from Parents Why Do We Tend to Focus on Failures? Lose cell phone Defiance Grounded “F” grade on report card Time out Fighting with a sibling Spanking Say a bad word Nothing Good behavior “That’s what I expected you’d get.” “A” grade on report card Nothing Getting along with your sibling Nothing Use appropriate language What types of behaviors get the most attention?

  5. Is it any wonder why you focus on your failures? • Negative behaviors get more attention than positive ones • You need to retrain your brain to focus on successes You’ve Been Trained Wrong

  6. You get more of what you focus on. • If you focus on failures, you will continue to fail • If you focus on successes, you will continue to succeed • Successful people keep track of successes while learning from their failures The Law of Attraction

  7. Today Jenny was chosen as Homecoming Queen, I didn’t do as well as Jocelyn on the Algebra test, and I am no longer #1 in my class Today I skipped rope 56 times, I got 3 gold stars, and I sold five boxes of Girl Scout Cookies Different Focuses

  8. Challenge yourself to “beat your best score” • Avoid the temptation to compare yourself to others • Someone, somewhere will always be better than you. • Success is determined by how you evaluate your own accomplishments Compete with Yourself

  9. Look at the images on the following slides. Compare them to yourself. Experiment

  10. How Do Your Looks Compare?

  11. How Do Your Grades Compare?

  12. How Do You Compare in Sports?

  13. How Does Your Car Compare?

  14. How Does Your Bank Account Compare?

  15. How Does Your House Compare?

  16. How Do Your Toys Compare?

  17. In your notes, write how you felt about yourself when you compared yourself to what others look like or have. Quick Write (5 Minutes)

  18. Imagine your self-esteem is measured in poker chips as seen below • Who is most confident? • Who will be least likely to take a risk? Self-Esteem is Like Poker Chips A B C

  19. Acknowledging and appreciating our past successes enlarges our pile of chips • A larger pile of chips gives us the courage to take risks • Risks lead to more opportunities for success Self-Esteem is Like Poker Chips

  20. Compete with Yourself C-

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  26. Read about keeping score of your successes on pages 193-202 in the book entitled The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Kent Healy. • Take down one page of Cornell notes. Silent Reading

  27. When you were little, your parents may have measured you from time to time to see your growth. • Do the same with your successes Measure Yourself

  28. In your Success Journal, begin by writing down 50 successes that you’ve already achieved in your. If you can’t remember the date, just leave it blank. Success Journal

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