Test Bank For On Course Strategies For Creating Success In College And In Life 2nd Edition

Chapter 4 Test—Mastering Self-Management

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1. Goals and dreams set your destination, but only persistent, purposeful actions will get you there.

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2. Creators apply a powerful strategy for turning dreams into reality: Do Quadrant III actions first.

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3. Procrastination is the choice to do unimportant tasks while neglecting important tasks.

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4. Spend too much time in Quadrant I and you may experience stress, develop ulcers, and flirt with a nervous breakdown.

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5. Quadrant II is where you will find Victims.

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6. When we allow someone else’s urgency to talk us into an activity unimportant to our own goals and dreams, we have chosen to be in Quadrant I.

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7. The secret to effective self-management is making choices that maximize the time you spend in Quadrants I and II.

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8. It is impossible to manage time; what we can manage is ourselves.

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9. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

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10. Celebrating your successes and talents makes you conceited, not self-confident.

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11. As you are visualizing yourself taking purposeful action, you want to be sure to include those actions which you may resist performing, such as taking a test, meeting with your project team, or editing your latest essay.

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12. Ashley Freeman, a student who used a 32-day commitment to achieve her goal of being more outspoken, demonstrated a Creator mindset and behaviors.

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13. A project folder can help you keep track of all the materials for a multi-step project like a group presentation.

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14. Technology like smart phone calendars are such effective self-management tools that everyone should use them.

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