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Positive Attitude

Goals:

• Help students understand that their approach to opportunities and challenges is an important factor in determining if they achieve their goals
• Encourage students to identify words of inspiration that will help them develop a positive approach to daily challenges

Skills:

• To develop the ability to identify available options and to make productive choices

Overview:

Students understand that they are faced with challenges and sometimes disappointments. This chapter provides an opportunity to help students understand that they cannot always control the challenges they face, but they always can control the way they react to the challenges.

A positive attitude is the foundation needed to identify options when facing a disappointing situation and to persevere when others give up.