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The lesson focuses on understanding personal power, which encompasses responsibility, making choices, self-awareness, and relationship management. Students are encouraged to identify their talents and abilities, appreciate their strengths, and find ways to enhance and share them with others. Activities include reflecting on personal strengths, discussing admired qualities in others, and committing to acts of kindness using their talents.

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06 - Lesson 3 z2GdBS

The lesson focuses on understanding personal power, which encompasses responsibility, making choices, self-awareness, and relationship management. Students are encouraged to identify their talents and abilities, appreciate their strengths, and find ways to enhance and share them with others. Activities include reflecting on personal strengths, discussing admired qualities in others, and committing to acts of kindness using their talents.

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3 Personal Power

Objectives

At the end of this lesson, the students are expected to


1. describe what talents and abilities are;
2. enumerate their talents and abilities;
3. appreciate their strengths; and
4. express ways by which they can (a) further enhance their
strengths, and (b) share these with others.

Let’s Start!

What was the first thing that came into your mind when
you read the title of today’s lesson? In your opinion, what does
“personal power” mean? Could it mean

1. being more intelligent than others?


2. having more authority over others?
3. being able to do what you want and have everyone else
follow you?

Personal power has four components: (1) being responsible,


(2) making choices, (3) getting to know yourself, and (4) getting
and using power in your relationships and your life.

Reflect for about 10-15 minutes if these four are manifested in


your life. How are they manifested? On the other hand, is there a
lack or absence of one or two of them? Why is this so?

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As an individual with personal power, you need to help others
live in a community of love, joy, peace, and shared responsibility.
Besides being nurtured, educated, and loved, you are called to
strengthen your faith in God.

Personal Power

Do I possess it or not? Let us find out.

1. Am I responsible?
• What does it mean to be responsible?
• What traits should one have in order to be
considered a responsible person?

2. Can I make confident choices? Why or why not?


Explain your answer.

3. How well do I know myself?

4. How do I relate with people?

“Having personal power” does not mean being more intelligent


than others, having more authority over others, or being able to do
what you want and have everyone else follow you. It means that
you are confident and secure about yourself. One becomes secure
and confident when he/she is able to accomplish something.

Anyone can have personal power. You can learn how to develop
and use it because you have talents and abilities. It may be natural
for you to sometimes feel anxious about doing or completing a
task. However, regardless of what you feel at the moment, you can
feel secure and confident once you have identified and claimed
your talents and abilities.

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Let’s Think and Talk!

Pause for a moment and think about the talents and abilities
that you possess. These are your strengths. List them down on the
lines below. Then, answer the following:

My Strengths


Write five things you promise to do to strengthen your ties
with your family, using the following:
1. Talents and abilities

2. Personal characteristics


My Promise
How would you use your strengths in improving the
following?
1. Relationship with my family
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
2. Relationship with my friends
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
3. Performance in school
________________________________________________
________________________________________________

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Questions for reflection:
1. How did you feel while writing down your strengths?
2. Was it easy doing it? Why?
3. Were there things about yourself which you discovered after
doing the previous activity?
4. Did the discovery convince you that having such strengths
are good reason to make you feel confident and secure?
It is natural for you to feel strange about writing down all the
strengths which you feel you possess. Being able to identify them
can facilitate further growth for you.
Knowing your talents and abilities is not enough. You also have
to claim them and believe in your heart that you possess them.
You need to consciously and consistently develop and use them
well.
If you want something done and if you desire for changes to
occur in your life, you must work hard for them. After all, there is
never anything that you will not be able to do if you work hard for it.

Let’s Discuss!

Strengths are the special skills, talents, or abilities that you


have. There are various strengths that you possess and being
aware of them will help you in getting to know yourself better, in
accepting yourself, and in becoming a better person.
Realizing what your strengths are will help you develop ways to
enhance them and use them well. However, there may be certain
things which you are unable to do because of lack of certain skills,
talents, or abilities. Such limitations should never be used as an
excuse from further enriching yourself as a person.
Talent is a special ability that allows someone to do something
well. It is an ability that someone is born with. It is a high degree of
ability or aptitudes. People may have the talent in music, dancing,
acting, or sports. Someone who has talent is able to do something
without trying hard.

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Mozart had a talent for music. He became well-known for his
great talent. Like Mozart, you may also have talent in music or in
other fields, like writing, acting, or painting. Expressing your talent
is something that comes out naturally. It is something you enjoy
doing.
We sometimes hear about people who are “born with a talent.”
Despite their in-born talents, these people still have to work very
hard in order to hone their talents and become better at their fields.
There are some people who were not born with talents, but become
quite good at something. This happens through constant practice,
hard work, and dedication to become skillful and knowledgeable.
Sadly, there are also some people who “waste their talent.” This
means that they have the talent but do not work hard to improve it
or do not use it to help others. Why do we have to share our talents
with others?
Other words for talent are aptitude and gift. A talented person,
therefore, is a gifted person.
Ability is the capacity to accomplish physical, mental, financial,
or legal endeavors. Furthermore, ability is having the competence
based on natural skill, training, or other qualification. Ability is
synonymous to talent, special skill, and aptitude.

Let’s Act

1. Individual Activity
Think of one person you know and admire. What qualities
does he/she possess that are worth emulating?

The person I admire is_____________________________


because __________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
________________________________________________.

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The qualities, traits, and characteristics he/she possesses
that are worth emulating are the following:

He/She has talents/abilities that I also have. These are the


following:

The traits, characteristics, talents, and abilities that I have


to develop further are the following:

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I will develop these by doing the following:

2. Group Work
Form groups with five members each. Choose a leader and
a secretary. Allow each member to share with the group his/
her individual work.
Make a conclusion about what you have learned or
discovered about the persons your group admires. The
secretary will collate all the information shared for group
reporting.

3. Plenary
The group leaders will give a report on the sharing that took
place in their respective group. After the reporting, the class
will discuss how talents and abilities can be developed further
and how these could be used to help others.

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My Personal Pledge

1. Compose a prayer expressing your promise to God to develop


your talents and abilities further and to utilize these to benefit
not only yourself but others as well. This will be your way of
showing praise, appreciation, and gratitude to the Giver of
these talents and abilities.

2. “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”


In the table below, make a list of the talents and abilities
which you can use to share with others. Every day, perform
an act of kindness through your talents and abilities without
letting the recipient know it was you who did it. Check off the
list each day that you have performed the act of kindness.

Date Talents and Abilities Act of Kindness


1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

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