Emphasize your core beliefs by listing them on paper and using them as a filter for all new information. Avoid jobs that require compromising these values, and communicate to potential employers that your integrity is non-negotiable.
Coach friends who have a specific goal or focus in mind (such as running a marathon or losing weight). Encourage them in their progress.
Explain to a friend, fellow student, teaching assistant, or professor what you have learned from a book, lecture, or other source.
Use your ability and passion to help others by joining organizations that will allow you to exercise your talents in helping others succeed. This will allow you to feel good about what you do and learn from your experiences. For example, consider becoming a mentor or peer counselor, or join community service organizations.
Choose a job in which you work in teams or partnerships so that you can help others grow and develop.
You will be most satisfied in a career that provides some type of service to people or in which organizational success is based on interpersonal relationships and your ability to help people be successful.
Futuristic
Don’t let other people’s negative comments about your dreams dissuade you from reaching toward them.
Join a group that believes that it can have a positive effect on the future.
Take risks to gain new insights, even if they are out of your comfort zone. Set academic goals to project yourself into a successful future.
Choose jobs that will help you gain the connections you need for the job you want after graduation.
Dream big. Write down your dreams, and continue to make progress toward your biggest dreams.
Positivity
Make learning fun for yourself and others by throwing study parties.
Transfer your energy into everything that you do.
Think of fun, even silly, ways to remember things.
Make sure any work you choose is fun for you.
Choose work for which you have passion.
Belief
List your top three to five beliefs on a piece of paper you can use as a bookmark. Filter whatever you are reading and hearing through the lenses of these core values.
Debate an issue like: “Money is the true source of happiness.” Argue for and against this proposition. Ask yourself, “How was my position strengthened when I could incorporate my beliefs into the argument? How was my position weakened when I had to defend the opposing point of view?”
State what you believe is right and wrong. Help others grasp what you value and why you value it.
Have a mentor, and be a mentor. Understand that this increases the chances for your behaviors, decisions, and beliefs to remain constant.
Turn down high-paying jobs that force you to compromise your beliefs. Tell the hiring officer that your soul and psyche are not for sale to the highest bidder.
Restorative
Do not let an unexpectedly low grade defeat your spirits. Learn how to more effectively apply your greatest talents.
Raise money for the disadvantaged.
Research every missed test question to determine your gaps in knowledge, and fill those gaps.
Consider a service position where you can help others solve their problems.
Think about owning or managing a company that restores and recycles products.