Visualize Success: Video, Reading, Questions |Social Emotional Learning SEOT 013

Our students don't want to work. Here's a Social Emotional Learning strategy that might get them to start.

• SEOT Step to Success 013 is to VISUALIZE SUCCESS.

• NO PREP reading passage with discussion questions and answer key.

• Print the PDF, show the optional video, and discuss.

• Give students opportunities to develop Self Awareness and Self Control by setting goals.

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NO PREP, JUST PRINT.

• There is a single PDF to print.

• THE PDF includes the reading passage, discussion questions and answer key.

• Links to the optional (editable) Microsoft Word and Google Docs are also included in the PDF.

• The student handout includes a QR code to the YouTube video. If students are allowed to use phones, they can scan the code at the bottom of their handout to go to the video.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING (UDL) - Multiple ways to access content

This Social Emotional Learning Strategy content is available in three formats:

UDL Option 1: Students can read the printed handout.

• The handout article is a tidied up transcription of the video with questions

UDL Option 2: Students can watch the FREE YouTube video lesson

UDL Option 3: Students can use a screen reader to access the Google Doc.

• Google Docs provides accessibility tools so a screen reader can read the document.

• If you are using Windows, you can install a FREE screen reader like NVDA.

• If you are using a Chromebook, it comes with a built-in screen reader called ChromeVox. (Learn more)

• Please note: I CANNOT provide technical support for screen readers. I can only provide a Google Doc file which can be easily read by screen reader software.

SEOT is a way to think about how to achieve your goals. It’s an acronym. It stands for Strategies, Effort, Optimize, and Tinker. 

VISUALIZE SUCCESS

SEOT Steps to Success #013

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's true, then a video must be worth a thousand pictures. Playing a video in your mind's eye is a powerful way to help you achieve your goals. Olympic athletes and sports champions know a thing or two about the power of imagery. 

Emily Cook is a three-time Olympian and a six-time national champion in aerial skiing. She goes beyond simple visualization and imagines everything she has to do in her jump in vivid detail using all of her senses. 

She goes through the motions from a first-person perspective, from stepping up to the gate to hearing the crowds to feeling the wind on her neck. She feels her body and her muscles go through every movement of her aerial stunts before she even does it. 

At the Sochi Olympics, the starting areas were full of elite athletes going through the motions. Emily talked with a reporter about the process. "It's ridiculous," she said. "We're all up there flapping our arms. It looks insane, but it works." 

SEOT is an acronym to help us get the most out of life. The S stands for strategies. 

SEOT Step to Success #13 is to Visualize Success.

By the time you reach the Olympics, you know exactly what you need to do to land the perfect jump. You've been competing for a while, so you can visualize every aspect of the actions you need to take. 

However, in goal setting, we may not know which strategies and actions we need to do to get to the top of the mountain of success. There are lots of ways up the mountain, and we may not have discovered which strategies work best for us yet.

But no matter where we are in our journey, we can visualize what it will look like when we achieve our goal, and the more specific we can get about our goal, the better our chances of figuring out which strategies to use to get there.

A lot of people say they want more money. A lot of students say they want better marks. A lot of us want to be happier and healthier, but what does that actually mean to you? What will it look like if you are making more money?

What will it feel like if you're getting better marks? What would it sound like if you were happier? What will it taste like if you're healthier? 

Take a moment right now to think about what you're working towards. Spend a few moments imagining with all of your senses exactly what success might look like for you. Be in the moment, and make the image crystal clear. What sounds can you hear? What can you feel both physically on the outside and emotionally on the inside? What can you taste? What does success smell like? 

The more clear we can get about what we are after, the easier it will be to find strategies that can help get us there. 

Discussion Questions

1. According to this article, what obstacles stop people from achieving their goals?
2. Why do you think those obstacles stop people from achieving their goals?
3. How might this strategy help people to achieve their goals?
4. Why might this strategy not help people to achieve their goals?

TAKE ACTION: What’s a goal you have set for yourself. ____________________________

• Describe what success looks, feels, sounds, tastes, and smells like. Be as specific as possible
• What’s one thing you can do to move you closer to that scene? Why might this action work?

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