Your Promising Future What Youll Learn

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Your Promising FutureWhat Youll Learn

• Discover your dreams
• Set goals for your life
• Develop leadership skills

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Your Promising FutureWhat Youll Learn

• Education after high school
• How to get financial aid for college
• How to choose the best school for you

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Your Promising FutureWhat Youll Learn

• Decide which career fits your interests
• Develop your job search skills
• Learn what employers look for
• Write your resume
• Get inside info on interviewing

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Definitions of Success
According to the New World Dictionary Success
(n) 1. Result, outcome. 2. A favorable or
satisfactory result or outcome. 3. The gaining
of wealth, fame, or rank. Succeed (vi) 3. To
achieve or accomplish something planned or
attempted. 4. To have or enjoy success realize
a goal or goals, especially in becoming wealthy,
winning fame, or approval.

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Create Your Own Definition of Success

• Car?
• House?
• Clothes?
• Travel?

• Children?
• Education?
• Money?
• ?

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Discover the DifferenceYou Can Make

• According to Websters Dictionary, a mission is
  a continuing task or responsibility that one is
  destined to do, fitted to do, or called upon to
  undertake.
• When you view your job as a mission, your work
  takes on a whole new meaning.

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• To give of ones self, to leave the world a bit
  better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
  patch or a redeemed social condition to have
  played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with
  exultation to know that even one life has
  breathed easier because you have livedthat is to
  have succeeded.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Parts of a Mission

• Making a positive difference in the world
• Using your talents and abilities in a way that
  makes you happy and makes a positive impact on
  the lives of others

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How to Find Your Mission

• Seek out the type of work that your heart is
  drawn to
• Find a way to do what you love to make a positive
  contribution in the world
• Engage in activities to see where you truly fit in

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Guided Imagery Script

• Close your eyes and think back to a time when
  you were little. Think back to that moment you
  were watching TV or reading a book and you heard
  about the most fascinating thing. It may have
  been about a travel to someplace new, it may have
  been about someones job, it may have been about
  a sports team or a person winning some sort of
  award. Whatever it was, it lit you up inside.
  Your smile was so big that even your eyes began
  to smile and inside you said, I want to do
  that!

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A Few Web Sites for Volunteering

• www.bmf.netBlack media foundation
• www.americorps.orgAmeriCorps
• www.crossculturalsolutions.orgCross Cultural
  Solutions
• www.globalvolunteers.orgGlobal Volunteers,
  Partners in Development
• www.idealist.orgIdealist and Action Without
  Borders
• www.pointsoflight.orgPoints of Light Foundation
• www.publicallies.orgPublic Allies
• www.volunteerinternational.orgAn up-to-date
  search site for international volunteer and
  internship opportunities
• www.youthforanimals.orgYouth Corps for Animals