Personal Development Activities PDF

#### Reading: Story: YOU NEED TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FUTURE The first is the **Moviegoer**. This person watches the movie of their lives, admires some parts and criticizes others. Aside from that, they do nothing else. All she says the whole day is, "I like this thing and, but I don't like that thi...

#### Reading: Story: YOU NEED TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FUTURE The first is the **Moviegoer**. This person watches the movie of their lives, admires some parts and criticizes others. Aside from that, they do nothing else. All she says the whole day is, "I like this thing and, but I don't like that thing." The Moviegoer feels she has absolutely no control of their lives \-\-- except to comment about it. Moviegoers are the most pathetic, miserable people in the world. The second is the **Actor**. This person does not only watch the movie of her life. She realizes she's the Actor -- and can control a big part of her life. She can make or break the movie -- by how well she delivers her lines and how she portrays her character. Actors are a happy bunch, realizing they're the start of the show and enjoy some level of control. But many times, they wish the movie would end in another way -- but realize that they have no say in such things. The third is the **Scriptwriter**. This person does not only watch, and she doesn't only act, but she creates the entire movie from her mind. She determines what she will say, what she will do, and how the movie will end. She realizes she has enormous control over her life and sees to it that the movie of her life will turn out beautiful. The Producer of the movie is God. He tells you, "Make the movie beautiful, and I will give you all that you need for success." *[Source: Sanchez, Bo. (2006). Life Dreams Success Journal: Your Powerful Tool to Achieve] [and Surpass Your Dreams One Step at a Time. Shepherd's Voice Publishing.]* #### Activity: ASSESS ASPECTS OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT 1. Physical Self. Describe yourself. Try not to censor any thoughts which come to your mind. Include descriptions of your height, weight, facial appearance, and quality of skin, hair and descriptions of body areas such as your neck, chest, waist, legs. 2. Intellectual Self. Include here an assessment of how well you reason and solve problems, your capacity to learn and create, your general amount of knowledge, your specific areas of knowledge, wisdom you have acquired, and insights you have. 3. Emotional Self. About typical feelings you have, feelings you seldom have, feelings you try to avoid, feelings you especially enjoy, feelings from your past and present, and feelings which are associated with each other. 4. Sensual Self. A sensual person. What sense do you use most -- sight, hearing, speaking, smelling, touching? How do you feel about the different ways you take in information - through the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, pores, and skin. In what ways do you let information in and out of your body? 5. Interactional Self. Include descriptions of your strengths and weaknesses in intimate relationships and relationships to friends, family, co-students and strangers in social settings. Describe the strengths and weaknesses which your friends and family have noticed. Describe what kind of son or daughter, brother or sister you are. 6. Nutritional Self. How do you nourish yourself? What foods do you like and dislike? What do you like and dislike about these? 7. Contextual Self. Descriptors could be in the areas of maintenance of your living environment: reaction to light, temperature, space, weather, colors, sound and seasons and your impact on the environment. 8. Spiritual Self or Life Force. This about how you feel in this area. This could include your feelings about yourself and organized religion, reactions about your spiritual connections to others, feelings about your spiritual development and history, and thought about your metaphysical self. Think about your inner peace and joy. Think about your spiritual regimen or routine. Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns them: 1. **Determination.** It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less important things or spontaneous desires. It may be developed with the help of self-discipline exercise. 2. **Self-confidence**. It appears in the process of personal development, because of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences. Self-confidence is manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical condition. To develop it, you need to learn yourself and your capabilities, gain positive attitude and believe that by performing right actions and achieving right goals you will certainly reach success. 3. **Persistence**. It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles -- problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles. It can also be developed with the help of self-discipline exercise. 4. **Managing stress.** It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of information creates the risk of negative consequences of your actions. It increases efficiency in the actively changing environment. 5. **Problem-solving skills**. They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience. It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining a new experience. 6. **Creativity**. It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use. It can lead to a decrease or an increase of costs, but usually the speed of action is greatly increased when using creative tools. 7. **Generating ideas**. It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a mental image of an object formed by the human mind, which can be changed before being implemented in the real world. For generating ideas, you 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. These are just some, but the most important personal effectiveness skills which make the achievement of any goal easier and less costly. The sceneries SPIRALING COST a. Supplier of raw materials b. Manufacturer c. Wholesaler and retailer d. Consumer **A REAL WINNER** is one who is able to: - win over his/her battles and difficulties in life and turns them into a learning and glorifying experience; - find meaning in pleasant and unpleasant events in his life; - live in peace with difficult people and difficult situations; - win the goodwill of others, their respect and admiration; - get what he wants using win-win strategies; never at the expense of others; - discover and use opportunities to his best advantage; - develop and use his talents and abilities to the best advantage and in so doing, make meaningful contribution in making this world a better place to live in.