TENACITY
Why Passion and Resilience are the Keys to Success
Why Passion and Resilience are the Keys to Success
Undeniably one of the greatest qualities to possess is tenacity. This dogged determination will help you to achieve your most challenging task or quest.
If I were a betting women, I would put money on the fact that anyone you truly admire and look up to has demonstrated real tenacity.
If something is truly worth doing, then you can guarantee you are going to need persistence, perseverance, and pure determination. If you want to be a classical pianist or an AFL footballer, you may have a real gift, and this is important, but even the most gifted musician or sports person won't make it to the top without the tenacity required to traverse the long, hard journey from the bottom to the top. Tenacity is the quality displayed by someone who just won't quit — who keeps trying until they reach their desired outcomes.
Definitions of tenacity
1 persistent, determination
doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness
Type of:
determination, purpose
the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
Tenacity will:
Explore your mental software to eliminate the mental barriers to your success,
Upgrade your existing software for effortless achievement, and
Install the strategies of genius.
Albert Einstein said that we are all geniuses. If you asked a fish to climb a tree, he would spend his life believing he was stupid.
You'll find that when you change your mind and focus on your strengths, you will change your life.
Through this exploration students will be able to achieve 10 SACE credits through a health and wellbeing based Community Studies or participate at a foundation level.
If I were a betting women, I would put money on the fact that anyone you truly admire and look up to has demonstrated real tenacity.
If something is truly worth doing, then you can guarantee you are going to need persistence, perseverance, and pure determination. If you want to be a classical pianist or an AFL footballer, you may have a real gift, and this is important, but even the most gifted musician or sports person won't make it to the top without the tenacity required to traverse the long, hard journey from the bottom to the top. Tenacity is the quality displayed by someone who just won't quit — who keeps trying until they reach their desired outcomes.
Definitions of tenacity
1 persistent, determination
doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness
Type of:
determination, purpose
the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
Tenacity will:
Explore your mental software to eliminate the mental barriers to your success,
Upgrade your existing software for effortless achievement, and
Install the strategies of genius.
Albert Einstein said that we are all geniuses. If you asked a fish to climb a tree, he would spend his life believing he was stupid.
You'll find that when you change your mind and focus on your strengths, you will change your life.
Through this exploration students will be able to achieve 10 SACE credits through a health and wellbeing based Community Studies or participate at a foundation level.
INTRODUCTION
WEEKLY LESSON PLANS
Term 1
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There are three stages to life, and they relate to the three most important stages of learning....
Remember the tree? Today I drew up a tree and asked for a volunteer to draw the exact same flower that I had drawn....... Now I must say, we have some great artists and I loved all the trees, but one clever little darling in each of the classes I had this week worked out the best way to get the tree as exact as possible would be to use the same colour white board marker and trace over it. When we are starting something new, we need to (and it is ok and in fact saves us time etc) to be dependant on someone or something else. So we need to find someone to model or copy that has mastered the thing that we want to do. This is not the time to try and start from scratch or try your own thing. Do EXACTLY as they say or do to start with. Then We can add to the 'tree'.... Remember I got our volunteer to make the picture their own.... This is the level of independence. Once we are good at the thing we have copied, then it is time to experiment and make it our own. Then step three... Interdependence. Work with others to take the idea and together make something wonderful, based on the original thing that you had learnt. We might also refer to this as Learn, apply and teach (share)... Keep this in mind with your study. Make sure you aren't in a hurry to skip steps..... Learn the skill first. Then you can decide what you do and don't want of it and make it your own...... Happy Studies! |
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Week 3: A Brief On Belief: Knowing Your SoftwareQuote: "If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provides, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything. That includes those things that other people are certain are impossible."
William Lyon Phelps You live with an ever-present companion: Yourself! You spend more time with yourself then with anyone else. 24 hours a day, you have the privilege of spending with you. This host companion talks to you continuously: virtually nonstop even when you're sleeping! The key benefit here, is that due to this relationship with self, you have more influence over yourself and more ability to create your future than anyone else. In fact you are creating it. The question is are you creating a positive, successful future for yourself or are you creating something else? This host or internal companion is you chatting to you, inside your thoughts. You are the creator of your internal environment. You guide yourself, criticise yourself, give to or withhold from yourself, belittle or support yourself. The internal you feels like a distinctly different person speaking to you, but it is really you inside, talking to you. It is these conversationsl that overtime create your beliefs based on the meaning that you have given specific events in your life. |
Week 4: Time To Emery Your Memory: Deleting Old Programs
Quote: "In a growth mindset, your flaws are just a TO-DO list of things to improve." Derek Sivers
Your mindset is made up of your knowledge, including beliefs and thoughts about you and the world around you. It is your filter (a combination of those 7 filters we talked about in week 2) for information you get in and put out. So it determines how you receive and react to information. Developing the right mindset is then the best way to learn something new and pick out the most relevant information. From this process you develop the beliefs that are most helpful for where you want to go or how you want to be. This belief-system then becomes your current mindset. In order to get this happening you need to:
Adopting positive beliefs changes your mindset for the better and allows a growth mindset (as opposed to a fix one) and therefore how you behave, which should in return reap better results. |
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Week 8: Your Strengths - Your JourneyQuote: “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”
― Confucius TRUST ME Chart and Self Evaluations |
Week 12: Leadership Traits and NLP
Quote: "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door!" Milton Berle
NLP is the study of how we use our mind and our language to create or break repeat patterns of behaviour. Creating and breaking these patterns brings forth an attitude and a methodology (system of methods) that leaves behind a trail of techniques... This techniques are the formula for success for us. |
Week 13: Wheel of LifeQuote: It's all in how you arrange the thing...
the careful balance of the design is the motion. Andrew Wyeth The Wheel of Life is a great exercise and tool for helping you create more balance and success in your life. It is often used in coaching and is a great foundation exercise when goal-setting. |
Week 14: 5 Love Languages
Quote: “Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.”
― Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate If you have had the good fortune to read The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman, you'll know that these are: words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, physical touch and gifts. The basic premise is that every human being has a vital 'love language' and sees different acts as expressions of love. So then it stands to reason that showering someone with gifts when it's not their 'love language' can only serve to irritate/alienate. So how does this theory translate into the leadership sphere? If we could find out what each of our peers 'love language' is, by carrying out relevant small 'acts' in the right 'language', we should be able to inspire, motivate and connect to the individuals in our teams/lives. So to translate Chapman's love language into a work/school or organisational setting: 1. Words of affirmation = Recognition I've worked with many individuals over the years who thrive on the limelight. Being singled out for specific achievements (no matter how small), words of praise - or even blatant flattery – all put a spring in this person's step! 2. Acts of service = Support Conversely, I've known others who would rather die than be singled out for anything. However, these people thrive when someone offers to help them finish a task, when a colleague backs them up in a project, when their boss rolls up their sleeves and helps clear the backlog. This breeds undying loyalty. 3. Quality time = Development Support would be meaningless to someone who thrives on continual development. Being nominated to go on a development programme, being selected to attend a global training course, being given access to new tools, trends and being enabled to complete their degree, will have this individual on top of the world. |
4. Physical touch = One-on-one time
To equate physical touch was a little more difficult as we all know that, taken literally, this would land people in hot water! However, if we think about it, it's about intimacy. This means that one-on-one time with this individual would go down a treat. So creating opportunities for this individual to (for example) have a weekly chat over coffee, ask about their family and tell them about yours, or have a brainstorming session will boost their self-esteem and build lasting bonds. 5. Gifts = Rewards This individual may look at spending one-on-one time with the boss like watching paint dry; however, putting a prize up for grabs, dropping a gift on their desk, giving them a phenomenal stretch bonus will make this colleague likely to take off like a rocket. So in summary, to get to know your colleagues 'leadership love language', look at these aspects: 1. Recognition, 2. Support, 3. Development, 4. One-on-one time, and 5. Rewards. Once you do this, see how easy it is to build loyalty, trust and garner support. I dare you. Try it... |
Week 15: The 6 Core Needs
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Week 16: The 10 Success Principles: Harness Your HeroQuote: “You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, and the actions you take (your behaviour).”
Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be |