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Thought Patterns for Success in Everyday Life

Thought Patterns for Success in Everyday Life. Dr. Elizabeth White City College. Relating in everyday life. Affinity (putting the Attitudinal Balance Scale to work) An emotional attitude that indicates your degree of “liking.” Reality (“the absence of truth can set you free”)

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Thought Patterns for Success in Everyday Life

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  1. Thought Patterns for Success in Everyday Life • Dr. Elizabeth White • City College

  2. Relating in everyday life • Affinity (putting the Attitudinal Balance Scale to work) • An emotional attitude that indicates your degree of “liking.” • Reality (“the absence of truth can set you free”) • What you believe to be true for YOU. • Communication • An interchange of ideas and thoughts. • All of these aspects of our interactions can be affected by our scotomas.

  3. Affinity • An emotionally charged attitude. • The Attitudinal Balance Scale • Our attitudes drive our thoughts, which in turn drive our behaviors or actions. • Affinity begets affinity.

  4. Reality • Everyone’s reality is different. • Our realities change across time. • “Current reality” • We must understand a person’s reality in order to fully understand them and properly communicate with them. • Realities in agreement = harmony/understanding

  5. Communication • Communication is the universal solvent! • For true, healthy communication, there must be some level of agreement (understanding) and affinity (or positive attitude towards one another). • Verbal messages, paraverbal messages, and nonverbal messages.

  6. “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” • Have you ever tried to talk to an angry person? • Teacher-student communication breakdowns. • Breakdowns in our everyday personal lives.

  7. Success in our everyday lives • Being aware of our scotomas. • What are we missing? How can we open our eyes and minds to eliminate these blind spots? • Improving communication. • Remember, communication is the universal solvent. • Being mindful of differing realities. • Much conflict arises from viewing our current reality as the one, sole truth.

  8. The wizard in you... • Change your thoughts and change your life. • Discover and recognize the tremendous power within YOU! • Embracing your inner Positive Wizard. • Speaking to yourself and others in a language of hope.

  9. Practice what you preach! • “Vision without execution is hallucination.” -Thomas Edison

  10. Thank you • Elizabeth White, Ph.D. • ewhite@citycollege.edu • 954.492.5353 x.2254

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