Future Casting...

Become the Hero of Your Own Story

Angela Housand, 2013

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Watson College of Education Angela Housand, Ph.D. housanda@uncw.edu

Grow by Design or Live a Life by Default

Future Casting...
Angela Housand, 2013

FutureCasting...
A Program for Adolescents and Young Adults

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Who are you? Control the Message Casting Call Action Social Capital

Angela Housand, 2013

FutureCasting...
Connecting Who You Are Today With Who You Will Be Tomorrow

Angela Housand, 2013

3 Ring Conception of Giftedness

Pew Research Center, 2010

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Engineer Serendipity

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Plan a Preferred Future

Specic and measurable Balanced

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Plan a Preferred Future

Specic and measurable Balanced

Personal and Professional for truly Integrated Success

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Plan a Preferred Future

Pragmatic Physically possible Consideration of limitations and

resources

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Plan a Preferred Future

Exploit available opportunities Create lters to prevent wasting time

and maintain focus

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Decide the WHO not WHAT

Focuses on core competencies &

satisfactions

Allows you to dene what to do and

resources you need

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Decide the WHO not WHAT

ALSO, what NOT to do Allows you to focus efforts, time, &

energy

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Be HONEST with yourself

Do not believe your own

rationalizations

Consider your environment Consider your available resources

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Ignore the Naysayers

Constructive criticism is good -Embrace it!

Perspectives that are uninformed,

biased, opinion, or laden with emotional projection is destructive for achievers

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Dont Settle for Mediocrity

Push the limits of your potential Push the limits of available resources

Dream BIG and dare to FAIL.

Achieving YOUR Destiny

Dont Settle for Mediocrity

Dont be left wondering if you could

have done more...

Activity Time: Weebly Beginnings

WHO ARE YOU?

Did you know you have multiple identities?

Activity Time: Interest Inventory

Ask them...

Activity Time: Explore

Explore

Explore
www.skillcow.com http://careerservices.rutgers.edu/PCCPinterests.shtml https://diy.org/

What is YOUR definition of success?

Activity Time: S. W. O. T.

SWOT Analysis
Internal Origin Attributes of the Individual External Origin Environment

Helpful to achieving the objective

Harmful to achieving the objective

Strengths

Opportunities Attributes of the

S W O T
Threats

Weaknesses

Strengths
What unique skills do I have? What do I do well? What resources do I have available? Who do I know that can help me? What experiences have I had that will help me as I move forward?

Weaknesses
What areas do I need to improve? What do others view as my weakness or area for improvement? What is something I would like to change?

Opportunities
What opportunities are already available to me? How can I use my strengths to create opportunities for myself? Who might be willing to help me?

Threats
What could hinder my success? What are potential problems I could encounter? What are the challenges I face? What are the restrictions in my life (time, money, vehicle, access to computer or the Internet, etc.)?

Activity Time: Who am I?

CASTING CALL
BE THE HERO THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

Activity Time: Tagxedo Me

Future Self

Future Self
Research shows that people
(Pronin & Ross, 2006; Wakslak et al., 2008)

think of their current selves and future selves as different people.

Future Self
Limited ability to imagine ones
future self leads to opting for immediate gratication.
(van Gelder, Hersheld, & Nordgren, 2013)

Seeking Immediate Gratication

Future consequences are not considered Respond reexively rather than
intentionally and with control

Negatively related to joy and happiness

Future Self
Living in the here and now is one
of the strongest correlates of delinquent behavior.
(Gottfredson & Hirshchi, 1990; Pratt & Cullen, 2000)

People with a here and now

(Nagin & Pogarsky, 2003)

orientation respond to tangible stimuli and are unable to defer gratication.

in20years.com

Activity Time: Remember the Future

Creative Visualization
A process of visualizing specic behaviors or events occurring in ones life. Assumes students have experience with creative thinking and creative problem solving.

Creative Visualization
What do you see? What do you feel? What do you hear? What does it smell like?

Visualize Yourself in the Future

Creative Visualization

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

Creative Visualization
NOT JUST ONE TIME! Once the schema is clear, the visualization can be repeated to support continuation toward goal attainment.

Personally Meaningful
Tied to Students Identity Personally Interesting Integral to the Students Vision of the future Viewed as Useful

(Eccles & Wigfield)

Activity Time: The Accomplishments

Are Your Efforts Driven by Your Passions?

Ask Yourself
If you could do anything for 8 Am I excited to do what Im
hours a day for the rest of your life, and money were no object, what would you do? doing every day? If not, is it me or something else?

Activity Time: The Ideal Day...

Control the Message

Why Control the Message?

College Admissions Ofcers & Committees

will search you

Potential Employers will search you Friends (& non-friends) will search you Your Competition will search you Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you

Digital Identity

Volume
The amount of information there is about you on the internet

Relevancy
The usefulness of the information that exists about you and how consistent that information is with you you say you are and what you claim to value

Purity
The amount of information that comes up in an Internet search that is about you and not someone with a similar name or similar interests

Diversity
The mixture of information found when you are searched online:

Do you have a website? Are you found in real time content? Are there images and video of you?

Activity Time: Online ID

How To Control the Message

Find Out Whats on the Web Clean Up Content that You Dont Want
Everyone in the World to See

Create a More Flattering Image Online

Search Yourself

With quotes around your name, search

yourself on Google,Yahoo!, and Bing

What did you nd?

Search Yourself

You want to nd:

Favorable entries about your work Flattering or neutral mentions of your

personal life

Activity Time: Digital Footprint

Set Up Alerts!

google.com/alerts

Remove Unattering Content

Start with what you have posted:

Delete any negative comments youve made Delete inappropriate photos or videos Check all sites! Edit blog entries that are negative

Remove Unattering Content

You Can Start Fresh Too:

Delete all of your accounts Create new ones with a unique name for
yourself

Remember...Nothing really ever goes away.

Use your middle initial Use your nickname

Remove Unattering Content

Ask others to remove negative
content about you.

Remove tags from photos Paid services:

reputation.com internetreputation.com

Remove Unattering Content

Reset Privacy Settings:

Block groups or individuals from viewing

content that you would prefer to be private remove unsupportive members

Manage our groups regularly and

Other Message Management Tips

Avoid overly prolic status updates Claim your domain name

GoDaddy.com

Create a More Flattering Image Online

The BEST Way To Control the Message

Create Favorable Content

Set up a linkedin.com prole that is public Get people to endorse you professionally Update proles regularly Blog on a topic of interest Contribute in positive ways to the online
community - and do so often!

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The Hero of Your Own Story

Activity Time: Who Are Your Heroes?

Specific Measureable Attainable Realistic Time-bound

Effective Goal Setting: More Than SMART

Prioritized Reviewed Periodically Revised as Needed Accountable to Others

Effective Goal Setting: More Than SMART

Periodically review goals and modify to reect changing priorities and experiences.

Effective Goal Setting: More Than SMART

Share your goals and engage with successful, motivated people who also set goals.

Avoid Unrealistic Goals

Insufcient Information Goals Set by Other People Always Expecting Best

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo

Activity Time: Edmodo Badges

Privacy & Security

Categorize for different types of goals.

What steps will I take to achieve my goal?

Accountability: Share Reminders

Monitor Progress

Reflect & Evaluate

Activity Time: Goal Map

Goal attainment is not luck,

Goal attainment is not luck, it takes time and requires effort.

Cyclical & Ongoing

Adhere to a Code of Ethics or Rules

Consistency is the key Prioritize

Focus on Time Efciency Live by design rather than default!

Millennials

Past Generations

Halligan (opinion), 2013

Millennials

Halligan (opinion), 2013

 Make Materialism Irrelevant Utilize the bare minimum for material

needs and enjoy life debt free

Past Generations

Halligan (opinion), 2013

Past Generations

Halligan (opinion), 2013

 Enhance Knowledge Success comes faster to those who are

open active learners

Halligan (opinion), 2013

Halligan (opinion), 2013

Social Capital

Activity Time: Map the Network

 Manage Relationship Expectations Practice Emotional Self-Awareness Aware of their tempers and
idiosyncrasies

Manage Relationships
Dont criticize, condemn, or complain Give honest and sincere appreciation Figure out how to get others to want to do
or not do...

Manage Relationships
Arousing the desire to do or act in a
particular way:

Make the person feel important Let the person believe the idea was
their own - let them take credit.

Simply building self-efcacy

Become Well Liked

Become Well Liked

Be genuinely interested in people Smile or be positive Use the persons name

Become Well Liked

There can be more power in listening that
talking

Be interested in what the other

person is interested in

Make the other person feel

important by genuinely valuing what they have to offer

Engender Support
Avoid conict or arguments when possible Show respect for others opinions

Nobody Likes to Hear Youre Wrong

Engender Support
Admit when you are wrong The sooner you can get someone to say
yes, the more they will say yes talking

Let the other person do a great deal of the

Activity Time: Creating The Voice

Commit to a Physical Ideal

Poor physical health is a distraction Body worth working for and maintain it Have a clear point of view about the role spirituality plays in your life

Gain Clarity about Spirituality

Thank You!