PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: KNOWING well-being or peace of mind.

If the way that I am is not

ONESELF aligned with how I want to be, the incongruence, or
lack of alignment, will result in mental distress or
Self-Concept anxiety. The greater the level of incongruence
 your awareness of yourself between the ideal self and real self, the greater the
level of resulting distress. Personal development
 connotes first the identification of the ideal self
modules ultimate aim is greater self-knowledge that
as separate from others, and second, it
will lead to higher alignment between these two
encompasses all the behaviors evaluated in the
personality domains.
actual self that you engage in to reach the ideal
self
 Two Broad Categories of Self-Concept: Personal Effectiveness
 Actual Self  means making use of all the personal resources
 the one that you actually see/who – talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you
we actually are to achieve life goals
 has characteristics that you were  depends on our innate characteristics – talent
nurtured or, in some cases, born to and experience accumulated in the process of
have personal development
 how we think, how we feel, look,
and act Talents – needed to be identified and then developed
to be used in a particular subject area (science,
 can be seen by others, but because
literature, sports, politics, etc.)
we have no way of truly knowing
how others view us, the actual self
Experience – includes knowledge and skills that we
is our self-image
acquire in the process of cognitive and practical
 Ideal Self
activities
 the self that you aspire to be/ how
we want to be
Knowledge – required for setting goals, defining an
 the one that you hope will possess
action plan to achieve them and risk assessment
characteristics similar to that of a
mentor or some other worldly
figure Skills
 an idealized image that we have  determine whether real actions are performed
developed over time, based on in accordance with the plan
what we have learned and  if the same ability is used many times in the
experienced same situation, then it becomes a habit that
 could include components of what runs automatically, subconsciously
our parents have taught us, what  Some Skills That Will Greatly Increase the
we admire in others, what our Efficiency of Any Person Who Owns Them:
society promotes, and what we  Determination
think is in our best interest  allows you to focus only on
achieving a specific goal without
Self-Knowledge being distracted by less important
 derived from social interactions that provide things or spontaneous desires
insight into how others react to you  may be developed with the help of
 the actual self is built on self-knowledge self-discipline exercise
 Self-confidence
There is negotiation that exists between the two selves  appears in the process of personal
which is complex because there are numerous development, as a result of getting
exchanges between the ideal and actual self. These aware of yourself, your actions and
exchanges are exemplified in social roles that are their consequences
adjusted and re-adjusted, and are derived from  manifested in speech, appearance,
outcomes of social interactions from infant to adult dressing, gait, and physical
development. Alignment is important. If the way that I condition
am (the actual self) is aligned with the way that I want  you need to learn yourself and
to be (the ideal self), then I will feel a sense of mental your capabilities, gain positive
 attitude and believe that by
performing right actions and
achieving right goals you will
certainly reach success to develop
it
 Persistence
 makes you keep moving forward
regardless of emerging obstacles –
problems, laziness, bad emotional
state, etc.
 reduces the costs of overcoming
obstacles
 can also be developed with the
help of self- discipline exercise
 Managing stress
 helps combat stress that arises in
daily life from the environment
and other people
 increases efficiency in the actively
changing environment
 Stress – arises from the
uncertainty in an unknown
situation when a lack of
information creates the risk of
negative consequences of your
actions
 Problem-solving skills
 help cope with the problems
encountered with a lack of
experience
 increases efficiency by adopting
new ways of achieving goals when
obtaining a new experience
 Creativity
 allows you to find extraordinary
ways to carry out a specific action
that no one has tried to use
 can lead to a decrease or an
increase of costs, but usually the
speed of action is greatly increased
when using creative tools
 Generating ideas
 helps you achieve goals using new,
original, unconventional ideas
 can use a method of mental maps,
which allows you to materialize,
visualize and scrutinize all your
ideas, which in turn contributes to
the emergence of new ideas
 Idea – a mental image of an object
formed by the human mind, which
can be changed before being
implemented in the real world