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Self Management Skills

The document discusses stress management and provides techniques for managing stress. It defines stress and discusses managing stress through proper time management, maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle, focusing on positivity, and getting enough sleep. It also discusses the importance of emotional intelligence and self-awareness, including identifying strengths and weaknesses. Further, it covers topics like self-motivation, goal setting using the SMART method, and effective time management through organizing, prioritizing, controlling, and tracking one's time.

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Self Management Skills

The document discusses stress management and provides techniques for managing stress. It defines stress and discusses managing stress through proper time management, maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle, focusing on positivity, and getting enough sleep. It also discusses the importance of emotional intelligence and self-awareness, including identifying strengths and weaknesses. Further, it covers topics like self-motivation, goal setting using the SMART method, and effective time management through organizing, prioritizing, controlling, and tracking one's time.

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Session 1: Stress Management

What is Stress?
Stress can be defined as our emotional, mental, physical and
social reaction to any perceived demands or threats. These
demands or threats are called stressors. Stressors are the reason
for stress.
For example,
• you are too close to the exams but feel unprepared.
• you are experiencing a loss of someone close in the family.

Stress Management
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.
By doing this, you are able to deal with daily stress triggers and
meet these challenges head-on.
Always 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
Management Techniques
Here are a few simple stress management techniques.
• Time management: Proper time management is one of the
most effective stress-relieving techniques.
Healthy diet: Having a healthy diet will also help you reduce
stress. Eating a balanced diet, such as Dal, Roti, vegetables and
fruits will give you the strength to do your daily work
efficiently.
• Positivity: Focussing on negative aspects of life will add more
stress. Instead, learn to look at the good things and stay positive.
For example, instead of feeling upset over a scoring less in a
test, try to maintain a positive attitude and look at ways to
improve the next time.
• Sleep: We should get a good night’s sleep for at least 7 hours
so that your brain and body gets recharged to function better the
next day.
Holidays with family and friends: Going to a relative’s place,
such as your grandparents’ house or a new place during your
summer vacations can help you break from the normal routine
and come back afresh.

Ability to Work Independently


If you can become a calm and relaxed person, you will have the
ability to work independently, which means.
1. becoming self-aware, self-monitoring, and self-correcting.
2. knowing what you need to do.
3. taking the initiative rather than being told what to do.
4. recognising your mistakes and not blaming others.
5. having the ability and the will to learn continuously.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage
one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.
• Emotional awareness : the ability to identify and name one’s
own emotions.
Harnessing emotions : the ability to harness and apply
emotions to tasks like thinking and problem solving.
• Managing emotions : the ability to regulate one’s own
emotions when necessary and help others to do the same.

Some steps to manage emotional intelligence are as given


below.
• Understand your emotions: Observe your behaviour and note
the things you need to work on. You can then work on the things
you need to improve.
• Rationalise: Do not take decisions abruptly; be rational in
your thinking.
• Practise: Do meditation and yoga to keep yourself calm.

Session 2: Self-awareness — Strength and Weakness


Analysis

Techniques for Identifying your Strengths and Weaknesses


Finding Strengths (or abilities)
• Think of anything that you are always successful at.
• Think about what others like in you.
• Take out time and think about what you do well.

Finding Weaknesses
• Point out the areas where you struggle and the things you
find difficult to do.
• Look at the feedback others usually give you.
• Be open to feedback and accept your weaknesses without
feeling low about it. Take it as an area of improvement.

Difference between Interests and Abilities (Strengths)


Interests
1. Things that you like to do in your free time that make you
happy. An acquired or natural capacity
2. Things you are curious about or would do even if no one
asked you to do it.
3. Things you want to learn or would like to do in the future

Ability
1. An acquired or natural capacity
2. nable you to perform a particular job or task with considerable
proficiency.

Session 3: Self-motivation
Self-motivation is simply the force within you that drives you
to do things. Self-motivation is what pushes us to achieve our
goals, feel happy and improve our quality of life. In other
words, it is our ability to do the things that need to be done
without someone or something influencing us.
Qualities of Self-motivated People
Know what they want from life
2. Are focussed
3. Know what is important
4. Are dedicated to fulfill their dream

Building Self-motivation
Find out your strengths
Set and focus on your goals
Develop a plan
to achieve your goals
Stay loyal to your goals

Session 4: Self-regulation — Goal Setting


Goals : They are a set of dreams with a deadline to get them,
for example, 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.

How to Set Goals?


We can use SMART method to set goals. SMART stands
for:
• Specific : A specific and clear goal answers six questions.
Who is involved in the goal? What do I want to do? Where do
I start? When do I start and finish? Which means do I use?
Why am I doing this?
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.”
Measureable : A measureable goal answers the questions
“How much?”, “How many?” and “How do I know that I
have achieved results?”
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.”

Achievable : Breaking down big goals into smaller parts will


make the goal achievable. Bigger Goal: “I want to become a
teacher in my school.”

Realistic : A realistic goal would be something that we want


to achieve and can work towards.
Example of 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.”

• Time bound : A SMART goal should have a timeframe by


when the goal needs to be achieved.
This encourages us to take actions to completely fulfill the
goals.
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.”

Session 5: Self-regulation — Time Management


Time Management and Its Importance
Time management is the thinking skill that helps you to
• complete tasks on time.
• make a daily timetable.
• make a good guess at how long it will take you to do
something.
• submit homework and assignments on time.
• not waste time during the day.

Four Steps for Effective Time Management Organise


1.Organise: We plan our day to- day activities.
2. Pritortis: We make a to-do list that has all our activities
and we rank them in the order of importance.
3. Control: We have a control over our activities and time.
4. Track: We identify and note where we have spent our
time.

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