The document discusses various skills needed for self-management and success in life, including self-awareness, responsibility, time management, and adaptability. It also discusses stress, its causes and health impacts, and provides techniques for managing stress like time management, exercise, diet, and developing emotional intelligence. Goal setting is presented as an important factor for personal life, with specifics on creating goals that are measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. Effective time management is also discussed as the ability to plan and prioritize activities to make the best use of one's time.
2. Self-management (self-control) is
the ability to control one’s
emotions, thoughts and behaviour
effectively in different situations.
People with strong self-
management skills are better
in doing certain things better
than others.
The skills one must master to
succeed in life:
Self-awareness:
Responsibility:
Time Management:
Adaptability:
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4. Do you feel pressurised when people
around you bring up certain topics for
discussion ?
5. Do you fear that you will be
unsuccessful in life?
7. (Issues that we are not comfortable with)
Stress can be defined as our emotional, mental,
physical and social reaction to any perceived
demands or threats.
Stressors: The reasons of stress.
8. Stress motivates us to achieve more
but when we are under stress for a
prolonged period of time, it can cause
health problems and mental troubles as
well.
9. For example,
One is too close to the exams but feel
unprepared.
One is experiencing a loss of someone close in
the family.
One is worried about what people would think
of him if he/she don’t dress well or cannot speak
confidently.
One is stressed due to lack of sleep.
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11. Managing stress is about making a plan to be
able to cope effectively with daily pressures.
The ultimate goal is to strike a balance
between life, work, relationships, relaxation
and fun.
Keep in mind the ABC of stress management
A: Adversity or the stressful event
B: Beliefs or the way you respond to the event
C: Consequences or actions and outcomes of the
event
13. Time management:
Physical exercise and fresh air:
Healthy diet:
Positivity:
Organising academic life; no delaying:
Sleep:
Holidays with family and friends:
Ability to work independently:
Emotional Intelligence:
Stress Management Techniques
14. The need is to become a calm and relaxed person,
which means.
becoming self-aware, self-monitoring and self-
correcting.
knowing what you need to do.
taking the initiative rather than being told what to do.
recognising your mistakes and not blaming others.
having the ability and the will to learn continuously
Ability to Work Independently
..the key technique of a stress free life.
15. Being emotionally intelligent enhances our chances of
success and a balanced life. It helps to have better
relations with our friends and family.
Some steps to manage emotional intelligence:
Understand your emotions.
Do not take decisions abruptly; be rational in your
thinking.(Rationalise)
Do meditation and yoga to keep yourself
calm.(Practice)
Emotional Intelligence:
The ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.
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17. Analysing our strengths and weaknesses helps us to attain
success in life. Strength and weakness analysis begins
with knowing our self first.
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20. It is simply the force within us that drives us
to do things.
It is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel
happy and improve our quality of life.
It is our ability to do the things that need to
be done without someone or something
influencing us.
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23. Find out the strengths
Set and focus on goals
Develop a plan to achieve goals
Stay loyal to the goals
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25. Goal setting is a very essential
factor in our personal life.
The process of goal setting in our
life helps us decide on how to live
life, where we want to be, and how
we want to be in the future.
26. Goals:They are a set
of dreams with a
deadline to get
them, for ex: saving
pocket money to
buy a favourite
mobile phone by a
particular date.
Goal setting:It is all
about finding and
listing your goals
and then planning
on how to achieve
them.
28. Not a specific goal: “I would learn to
speak English.”
Specific goal: “I would learn to speak
English fluently by joining coaching
classes after my school everyday, and in
six months I will take part in the inter-
school debate competition.”
29. Not measurable goal: “I want to be rich.”
Measurable goal: “I want to have 5 times
more money than what I have today in my
hand at the end of this year.”
30. Bigger Goal: “I want to become a teacher
in my school.”
Breaking it into smaller goals: ƒ
Complete higher secondary ƒ
Complete Graduation ƒ
Complete B.Ed. ƒ
Apply for jobs in the teaching field
31. Unrealistic goal: “I will read my entire
year’s syllabus in one day and get good
marks.”
Realistic goal: “I spend 3 hours every day
of the year after school to revise my
subjects to get good marks in the
exams.”
32. Not a time bound goal: “I want to lose 10
kg someday.”
Time bound goal: “I want to lose 10kg in
the next 6 months.”
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34. Time management is the ability to plan and
control how we spend the hours of our day
well and do all that we want to do.
An example of good time management skills
would be when we decide to finish our
homework immediately after school so we
have time to watch TV later in the evening.
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36. Organise:
• Plan day-to-day activities.
• Make a timetable to follow.
Pritortise:
• Make a to-do list that has all activities
and rank them in the order of importance.
37. Control:
• Control over activities and time.
• Avoid time wasters like chatting on the
phone, surfing gossip sites, etc., and focus on
more important things.
Track:
• Identify and note where time is spent.
• Analyse if the time is effectively used or not.