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Qualities of a true Top Achiever

Dr Muavia Gallie (PhD)

Guest Speaker at the Randfontein High School’s Annual Academic Prize-giving function

29 January 2009 at 19h00

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Content • Succeed on your own terms;

- Knowing where your are going and defining success;- Profiles of those who have succeeded on their own terms;- Lessons in success: What they discovered about themselves along the way

• Video clip - Reedemer (4 min);• Moving from Success to Peace;• Video clip - Softball Miracle (6 min); and• Conclusion

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Herb Greenberg and Patrick Sweeney

Succeed on your own terms -Lessons from top achievers

around the world on developing your unique potential

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Knowing where you are going and defining success

1. You have got to know where you are, to know where you are going;

2. First you have to define success;

3. Tapping into our defining qualities

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Profiles of those who have succeeded on their own terms

• Perseverance;• Goal-oriented;• Self-awareness;• Willingness to take risk;• Thriving on pressure;• Optimism;• Empathy;• Competitiveness;• Courage;

• Patience;• Persuasiveness;• Confidence; • Passion;• Integrity;• Trust;• Having fun;• Being open;• Creativity;

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Lessons in Success: What they discovered about themselves along the way

1. Focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have;2. Always play like you are trying out for the team;3. Be who you are right now;4. Pursue something that is completely and totally interesting to you;5. Embrace your roots;6. Customise yourself;7. Respond from the heart when disaster strikes;8. Understand your past so that you can create your future;9. Be true to your conviction;10. Look in the mirror and be able to say, “I did the right thing”;11. Know what you stand for;12. Don’t let others define you;13. Reinvent yourself;14. Accept your own challenges.

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Moving from Success to Peace• PERMIT yourself to acknowledge that some of our old beliefs

about who we are (and others) might not be true;

• EXPLORE the possibility that there is something about ourselves (and others) that we don’t fully understand, of which could change everything;

• ANNOUNCE that we are willing for new understandings of ourselves (and others) that could produce new possibilities;

• COURAGEOUSLY examine these new understandings and allow these new truths and knowledge to enlarge our lives;

• EXPRESS our lives as a demonstration of our deepest, highest self, rather than denying them.

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Thank You!muavia@mweb.co.za

Memories ties you to your past.

Imagination point you to the future.

Downloadable: www.movingup.co.za