This document discusses overcoming negative labels and obstacles. It suggests that we have power over our own outcomes in life rather than being defined by others' labels or words. While failure and difficult situations may feel hopeless, many successful people faced failures in their past. The document encourages overcoming obstacles and negative labels through our own actions and choices, in order to avoid being controlled by the past and have a successful future.
2. HAS ANYBODY EVER BEEN LABELED
A TROUBLE MAKER?
WHAT IS A LABEL?
HOW DO WE EARN A LABEL?
PLEASE GIVE AN EXAMPLE
HAS ANYBODY EVER TOLD YOU THAT
YOU COULDNT DO SOMETHING?
PLEASE GIVE AN EXAMPLE
HOW DID THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
3. HOW MUCH OF YOUR LIFE DO YOU CONTROL, AND
HOW MUCH OF YOUR LIFE CONTROLS YOU?
What does this statement mean to you?
Only we have the power to determine our outcomes in life.
Nobodys words should be able to determine who we will become.
We must avoid the Self Fulfilled Prophesy
What is the heck is that?
4. DONT WISH IT WAS EASIER,
WISH YOU WERE BETTER
What does this statement mean to you?
We need to be willing to overcome any
obstacle, no matter how big or difficult, in
order to succeed in life.
Provide an example of a time you overcame
an obstacle
What did you learn from that experience?
Would you have learned if you never had to
encounter that obstacle?
5. HAS ANYBODY EVER FELT LIKE GIVING UP
BECAUSE OF A SITUATION THAT FELT HOPELESS?
Examples?
Test
Homework
Fighting at home
Getting yelled at from parent/guardian
Getting in trouble all the time at school
Getting in trouble for something you didnt do
7. WHAT DOES THIS VIDEO SAY ABOUT OUR
POTENTIAL TO SUCCEED?
No matter how many times we fail, there is always hope to succeed.
Many times the people who succeed the most, are those who have
failed the most in their past.
How could this be?
Perhaps because with every failure comes a learning experience
Has anyone every learned from a mistake?
8. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO OVERCOME A NEGATIVE LABEL.
No matter how far down the road youve gone, it
is never too late to change your life
How do we think we can overcome a negative
label?
Through our actions!
Through our words
Making good choices
Making amends to people we have harmed in the past
9. WHAT ARE SOME BENEFITS OF
OVERCOMING A NEGATIVE LABEL?
Staying out of trouble
Avoiding blame for something
we didnt do
Feeling good about ourselves
Having a successful adulthood