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Chapter 1: Building a Foundation for Success

Why Go To College?

  • More engaged in their communities
  • Lead healthier lifestyles
  • Participate more actively in children's education
  • Earn higher saleries up to $20,000 more a year
  • More likely to have a steady job

What's the Difference?

  • CSU
  • Fresno State, Monterey, Channel Islands
  • UC
  • Merced, Santa Cruz, LA
  • Private
  • Fresno Pacific, Cal Lutheren, USC
  • Out of State
  • MIT, Texas A&M, Oregon State
  • Out of 7,773 draft eligible NCAA baseball players, 735 by MLB
  • Out of 4,158 draft eligible NCAA men's basketball players, 50 were drafted into the NBA
  • Out of 3,674 draft eligible NCAA women's basketball players, 34 were drafted into the WNBA
  • Out 5,552 draft eligible NCAA men's soccer players, 78 were drafted into MLS
  • Out of 16,236 draft eligible NCAA football players, 253 were drafted in to the NFL

Learn About Yourself

What are you going to do?

Critical Thinking

  • Consider information thoughtfully
  • Understand how to think logically
  • Applying these to college and life

Critical Thinking

Discover Your Values

  • What you consider important
  • Stem from experiences with family, community or faith
  • Important because they influence your behavior and choices

Follow Your Interests

  • Influence your goals and motivations
  • Are preferences for activites, things, people and places

Four Key Concepts in Positive Psychology

Self-Efficacy

Four Key Concepts in Positive Psychology

Personal Responsibility

Positive Psychology

Resilience

Hope

Stay Positive

Positive Psychology- focuses on people's strengths and views weakness as growth opportunities

Self-efficacy

The belief in your ability to do the things required to achieve your goals

Resilience

The ability to cope with stress and setbacks

Resilience

Hope

The feeling that you can achieve your goals and that events turn out for the best

Hope

Personal Responsibility

Taking charge of defining your goals, creating plans for accomplishing them and seeking out resources that can help you achieve them

Embrace Your Strengths & Learn from Your Weaknesses

  • Past successes and failures
  • Class experiences

Recruit Help

?

HELP!

  • Recruit a team of supporters to help you when you struggle
  • What resources exist?
  • Know which resources you need
  • Use available resources

Independence

vs.

Interdependence

Beyonce

Family & Friends

Instructors

Disability Office

Counselor

Classmates

Support

Career Center

Financial Aid

Veteran Services

Tutoring Center

Group Work

In Pairs: List top 5 interests and come up with 5 careers

Group Work

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