PerDev Module 1 - you know yourself better
- 1. Personal Development QUARTER 1 First Semester
- 2. OBJECTIVE: 1. Explain that knowing yourself can make you accept your strengths and limitations and dealing with others better. 2. Share your unique characteristics, habits and experiences;
- 3. Self check ! Directions : Take a look at your own self-concept and answer the following self-concept inventory. Give yourself a rating using the scale 0 = very weak; 1 = weak; 2 = somewhat weak or somewhat strong; 3 = strong ; 4 = very strong. _______ 1. I have strong sex appeal. _______ 2. I am proud of my physical figure. _______ 3. I am physically attractive and beautiful/handsome. _______ 4. I exude with charm and poise. _______ 5. I am easy to get along with. _______ 6. I can adjust to different people and different situations. _______ 7. I am approachable; other people are at ease and comfortable with me. _______ 8. I am lovable and easy to love. _______ 9. I am fast learner, can understand with one instruction. _______ 10. I am intelligent.
- 4. Self check ! Directions : Take a look at your own self-concept and answer the following self-concept inventory. Give yourself a rating using the scale 0 = very weak; 1 = weak; 2 = somewhat weak or somewhat strong; 3 = strong ; 4 = very strong. _______ 11. I have special talents and abilities. _______ 12. I can easily analyze situations and make right judgments. _______ 13. I can be trusted in any transaction. _______ 14. I have a clean conscience and carry no guilty feeling. _______ 15. I have integrity and good reputation. _______ 16. My friends and classmates can look up to me as a model worth emulating. _______ 17. I can express my ideas without difficulty. _______ 18. I talk in a persuasive manner that I can easily get people to accept what I say. _______ 19. I can express my ideas in writing without difficulty. _______ 20. I am a good listener.
- 5. Self check ! Directions : Take a look at your own self-concept and answer the following self-concept inventory. Give yourself a rating using the scale 0 = very weak; 1 = weak; 2 = somewhat weak or somewhat strong; 3 = strong ; 4 = very strong. _______ 21. I am emotionally stable and not easily rattled when faced with trouble. _______ 22. I am logical and rational in my outlook and decisions. _______ 23. I feel and act with confidence. _______ 24. I am a mature person.
- 6. Self check ! Scoring: Copy the table in your journal. Write your score opposite each number and get the subtotal. Physical Appeal Human Relations Intelligence 1 _______ 5 _______ 9 _______ 2 _______ 6 _______ 10 ______ 3 _______ 7 _______ 11 _______ 4 _______ 8 _______ 12 _______ Subtotal: Subtotal: Subtotal: Character Communications Maturity 13 _______ 17 _______ 21 _______ 14 _______ 18 _______ 22 ______ 15 _______ 19 _______ 23 _______ 16 _______ 20 _______ 24 _______ Subtotal: Subtotal: Subtotal:
- 7. Self-Concept - your awareness of yourself - it is the construct that negotiates these two selves. In other words, it connotes first the identification of the ideal self as separate from others, and second, it encompasses all the behaviors evaluated in the actual self that you engage in to reach the ideal self. Actual Self - Is built on self-knowledge. It is who we actually are, on how we think, how we feel, look and act. Also called “self-image”. Ideal Self – how we want to be, it is an idealized image that we have developed over time, based on what we have learned and experienced.
- 8. Negotiation – that exists between the two selves which is complex because there are numerous exchanges between the ideal and actual self. Social Roles – Adjusted and re-adjusted, derived from outcomes of social interactions from infant to adult development. Incongruence – lack of alignment, will result in mental distress or anxiety.
- 9. Personal Effectiveness - Making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you to achieve life goals. 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 as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences. 3. Persistence – it makes you keep moving forward regardless or emerging obstacles – problems, laziness bad emotional state, etc.
- 10. Skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns them: 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 lack of information creates risk of negative consequences of your actions. 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. 7. Generating ideas – it helps you achieve goals using new, original, 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.
- 11. Make a banner with a tagline of your life right now. Use a bond paper (Long size) and coloring materials to create a banner and write your tagline. Activity
- 12. What do you consider as your weaknesses, abilities and talents? What are the remedies you will take to improve or compensate for your weakness? How can you further enrich your assets and strengths ? Where and how do you use it to your best advantage? Reflection from my Banner
- 13. You need to take charge of your future! 1. MOVIEGOER – This person watches the movie of their lives, admires some parts and criticizes others. “I like this thing and but I don’t like that thing.” The moviegoer feels she has absolutely no control of their lives --- except the comment about it. 2. 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. 3. SCRIPWRITER – This person does not only watch, and she doesn’t only act, but she actually creates the entire movie from her mind. She determines what will say, what she will do, and how the movie will end. THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE:
- 14. “ Make the movie beautiful, and I will give you all that you need for success.”