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Personal and Academic Growth Achieving Academic Success Coping with the Fear of failure

Personal and Academic Growth Achieving Academic Success Coping with the Fear of failure. Suzanne (Sue) Stokes. Personal and Academic Growth. Personal & Academic Growth. Goals What is your goal? For the semester? For the year? In the next 5 years ? Expectations

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Personal and Academic Growth Achieving Academic Success Coping with the Fear of failure

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  1. Personal and Academic GrowthAchieving Academic SuccessCoping with the Fear of failure Suzanne (Sue) Stokes

  2. Personal and Academic Growth

  3. Personal & Academic Growth Goals • What is your goal? • For the semester? • For the year? • In the next 5 years? Expectations • What were your expectations when you arrived here at UJ?

  4. Personal & Academic Growth Difference • What was different from what you expected? Change • If you could do something differently, what would it be? • Why would you like to change it?

  5. Personal & Academic Growth Strengths • What do you have within you to make that change possible? Difficulties • What are some of the challenges you are currently facing?

  6. Personal & Academic Growth Failure • What does failure mean to you? • How do you cope with failure? Success • What does success mean to you?

  7. Motivation

  8. Motivation Worksheet • What do you have within yourself to help you achieve your dreams, your long-term goals, short-term goals, overcome the obstacles in your path? • Have you decided to succeed today? • What are your strengths!?

  9. Strengths

  10. Strengths Worksheet • Usually it is very easy for us to point out what we are not good at. But in order to understand yourself better, you need to focus on your strengths, abilities and talents! • This will also motivate and help you become a successful student.

  11. Strengths Worksheet • How can you use your strengths in: • Your relationships? • In your life as a student? Homework: Complete the collage

  12. Personal and Academic Growth

  13. Personal and Academic Growth • What is growth? • How can you grow? • Do you have an idea on how to start this journey… • What are you going to do differently • What are you going to start doing/do more of • What are you going to stop doing

  14. Personal and Academic Growth • How to set goals!? • How to establish academic and personal goals? • Define goal setting!! • One way to organise yourself and to get yourself moving in a positive direction.

  15. Personal and Academic Growth • How to establish your own personal goal? • How to establish your own academic goal? • STUDY • Homework: Complete the Worksheet on Goal Setting

  16. Achieving Academic SuccessStaying Motivated

  17. Achieving Academic SuccessStaying Motivated • How would you define studying? • What is the purpose of studying? • What do you do when you study? • Why study? • Where do you study? • When do you study?

  18. Study(verb)The act of texting, eating and watching TV with an open textbook nearby.

  19. Achieving Academic SuccessStaying Motivated Curbing Distractions • Phone, laptop, television etc. • Inadequate planning • Attempting too much • Being disorganised • Lack of self-discipline • Inability to say “no” • Procrastination • Unfinished tasks • Personal problems • Socialising during time planned for work

  20. Achieving Academic SuccessStaying Motivated Dealing with Distractions • Whatis keeping me from achieving my goals? • Whyis this a distraction/waste of time? • How oftendoes it happen? • What causesit to happen? • What are the consequencesof it?

  21. Achieving Academic SuccessStaying Motivated Dealing with Distractions • Be realistic about how much time you have or spend on the different aspects of your life • Plan for the next day the night before • Writing it down helps take it out of your head! • Have a dedicated study space with minimal distractions • If you get distracted by something else you need to do, make a note of it (unless it’s an emergency) and attend to it later • Set definite start and finish times – begin and end as you have planned

  22. Achieving Academic SuccessStaying Motivated Dealing with Distractions • Allocate any unfinished work to another time – do not ignore it! • Find your own pace and do what works for you • Review all of your work • Postpone unnecessary activities until the work is done • Identify resources to assist you • Use your free time wisely! • Reward yourself with things you enjoy – hanging out with friends, social media, fun activities

  23. Coping with the Fear of failure

  24. But what if I fail? • Failure is a normal part of life. • Everyone will fail, but not everyone will know how to bounce back from failure. • What are some of the common feelings and reactions to failure?

  25. Identifying SYMPTOMS Mind: Agitated, overwhelmed, moody, irritable, aggressive, depressed, difficulty concentrating, anxious Skin: Skin problems like acne Joints and muscles: aches, pains, and tension Heart: Increased blood pressure, chest pains, increased heart rate, high cholesterol and risk of heart attacks Behaviours: Procrastinating, changes in appetite, increased alcohol consumption, nail biting, hyperactive, withdrawal, Stomach: cramps, reflux, nausea, diarrhoea

  26. Common Reactions to Failure • Hopelessness • Shocked • Self-doubt • Disappointment • Anger (at self/others/situation) • Frustration • Guilt and Shame

  27. Myths and Realities of Failure

  28. 4 Steps to Coping with Failure

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