Personal Effectiveness and Self Development

Self-Concept

• The self includes a person's life purpose, meaning, and aspirations
• The self-concept has two broad categories: the ideal self and the actual self
• The ideal self is the self that you aspire to be, with characteristics like that of a mentor or some other worldly figure
• The actual self is the self that you see, with characteristics that you were nurtured or born to have

Personal Effectiveness

• It is the ability to make use of all personal resources (talents, skills, energy, and time) to achieve goals
• It depends on innate characteristics, talent, and experience accumulated in the process of personal development
• Experience includes knowledge and skills acquired in the process of cognitive and practical activities
• Knowledge is required for setting goals and defining an action plan to achieve them, as well as risk assessment
• Skills determine whether real actions are performed in accordance with the plan, and can become habits if used many times in the same situation

Skills that Increase Efficiency

• Determination allows you to focus on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less important things
• Self-confidence is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical condition, and can be developed by learning about oneself and capabilities, and gaining a positive attitude
• Persistence makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles, problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc.
• Managing stress helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people
• Problem-solving skills help cope with problems encountered with a lack of experience
• Creativity allows finding extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use
• Generating ideas helps achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas

Uniqueness

• Uniqueness is defined in different ways, including being the only one or sole, having distinct characteristics, and being unique or unusual in some special way
• Uniqueness is a state or condition wherein someone or something is unlike anything else in comparison
• Understanding and accepting one's uniqueness and that of others leads to tolerance, acceptance, and better relationships
• Jack Nollan's 10 Things that Make a Person Unique include personality, attitude, experiences, habits, creativity, perspective, taste, goals, hobbies, and passion