This chapter focuses on the critical skill of taking ownership of one's actions, choices, and outcomes. This chapter emphasizes how personal responsibility is fundamental to achieving academic and personal goals. The chapter reviews creator versus victim mindset and shares information about the wise choice process.
Believing in Yourself Topic: Change Your Inner Conversation
Healthy Choices Topic: Alcohol
adopt a Creator mindset, believing that their choices create the outcomes and experiences of their lives.
master Creator language, accepting personal responsibility for their results.
make wise decisions, consciously designing the future they want.
accept a Victim mindset, believing that external forces determine the outcomes and experiences of their lives.
use Victim language, rejecting personal responsibility by blaming, complaining, and excusing.
make decisions carelessly, letting the future happen by chance rather than by choice.