Self-Management Skills

• Self Management Skills enable control of thoughts, wants, feelings, and actions.
• Maximizes productivity and performance.
• Aids in managing a career path and overcoming difficult situations.
• Essential for employability.
• This includes understanding stress, stress management, and independent work.

Skills to Master:

• Self-awareness: Seek feedback and reflect on interactions.
• Responsibility: Take ownership of tasks for self-development, reporting issues and correcting them.
• Time Management: Prioritize tasks, eliminate redundancy, and follow a timetable.
• Adaptability: Stay updated and prepare for changes.

Understanding Stress

• Stress is an emotional, mental, physical, and social response to perceived demands or threats.
• Stressors are the demands or threats that cause stress.
• Examples of stressors: feeling unprepared for exams, loss, or worry about others' opinions.

Stress Management

• It involves planning to cope effectively with daily pressures.
• The goal is to balance life, work, relationships, relaxation, and fun to handle stress triggers.
• ABCs of Stress Management:
  • Adversity or the stressful event
  • Beliefs or the way you respond to the event
• Consequences or actions/outcomes of the event

Ability to Work Independently

• Requires calmness and relaxation.
• It involves:
• Self-awareness, self-monitoring, and self-correction
• Knowing what to do
• Taking initiative
• Acknowledging mistakes
• Continuous learning

Three Steps to Manage Stress:

• Awareness of stress symptoms (headache, sleeplessness, etc.).
• Identifying the cause (exams, family, money, diet).
• Applying management methods (time management, talking, relaxation).

Management Techniques:

• Time management is a primary stress reliever.
• Physical exercise and fresh air are essential for stress reduction.
• Yoga, meditation, and deep breathing improve circulation and relaxation.
• A healthy and balanced diet can improve strength.
• Focus on positivity to reduce stress.
• Adequate sleep (at least 7 hours) is needed.
• Holidays with family and friends can break routines.

Emotional Intelligence

• Emotion Recognition and manage one's own and others' emotion
• Emotional awareness: Naming one's emotions
• Harnessing emotions: Applying emotions to thinking and problem-solving
• Managing emotions: Regulating emotions and helping others.
• Steps to manage emotional intelligence:
• Understand emotions via observation.
• Rationalize decisions.
• Practice meditation and yoga.

Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses

• Strengths are abilities where success is common.
• Weaknesses are areas of struggle.
• Identify strengths by:
• Recognizing successes
• Considering positive feedback
• Introspection
• Find weaknesses by:
• Noting struggles
• Reviewing feedback
• Being open to improvement

Interests vs. Abilities

• Interests: Enjoyable activities pursued in free time.
• Abilities: Acquired or natural capacities for proficient task performance.

Self-Motivation

• Internal drive to achieve goals and improve life quality.
• Doing things without external influence.

Types of Motivation:

• Internal Motivation: Doing things for happiness and well-being.
• External Motivation: Doing things for respect and recognition.

Goal Setting

• Goals are dreams with deadlines, like saving for a phone.
• Goal setting finds and plans goals.
• SMART method (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time Bound).
  • Specific: Answers who, what, where, when, which, and why.
  • Measurable: Answers "How much?", "How many?".
  • Achievable: Is broken down into smaller tasks.
  • Realistic: Is something one can work towards.
  • Time bound: Has a deadline to fulfill.

Time Management

• Helps one complete tasks on time and make a daily timetable.
• Aids in estimating task durations.
• Enables timely submission of assignments.
• Reduces wasted time.
• Effective Time Management Steps:
• Organize daily activities.
• Prioritize tasks with a to-do list.
• Control activities and time.
• Track and note time usage.