G11 - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (Knowing Oneself)

Body: Constitutes your physical attributes, your health and your posture and poise

Thoughts: The way you think and how you perceive things around you affect how you feel about them and bring about sensations. Your experience prompt you to act and behave the way you do

Emotions & Sensations: The union of these elements make up your Sensations character or personality and essentially distinguishes you from other people.

SELF

This is a word for knowing yourself. Introspection means "to look inside," and describes the act of thinking about your own actions or inner thoughts. When you examine what you do, say, think or feel and how it affects your life and the lives of others, that's introspection.

You must grow with deeper understanding of what makes you happy, how you relate with your surroundings, give importance to your strengths, limitations and even your soft spots is the purpose of the presentation?

• Takes a lot of courage and guts

• Get acquainted with people that inspire and motivate you to do better

• Doesn't happen in an instant Mindful effort and time

• Tasks and jobs you can and cannot do must be known to you

STEPS ON HOW TO GET TO KNOW YOURSELF

1. Get to know your PERSONALITY

You have your own database of information about your personality in your private and public moments.

You must know your personality inside out, to know what you are and what you are not

Understand what makes you react a certain way in life's myriad of situation. "WHY DID I DO THAT?"

2.Get to know your CORE VALUES

- CORE VALUES are morale codes and the principles you hold dear to your heart.

- It has a big role in decision-making, influencing, persuading, conflict resolution, communication, and living your day-to-day life.

- Which values you can never compromise?

3. Get to know your BODY

- Can my body do this?

- Take time to become intimate with your own body.

4. Get to know your DREAMS

- Your dreams and hopes create the pathway into your future.

- Your dreams matter. Your dreams are important. Your dreams are worth going after

- Get to know the details and the specifics of your dreams.

5. Get to know your LIKES & DISLIKES

- A lot of people go through liking what's popular and disliking what's not "COOL". Don't do that.

- Take time to define your likes and dislikes.

- It takes guts in defining your dislikes.

- If you keep doing things that frustrated you and neglect what brings you joy, you give up a part of who you are.

SELF-AWARENESS

Self-awareness of the traits possessed and the characteristics 1 hot need to be worked on will give a great impact into becoming the best version ourselves.

This contributes to one's personal effectiveness in dealing with other and in working towards success A well-developed personality is the one That builds on the strength and works on the weaknesses. One tries To learn more about the new ways and shows good and admirable behavior behind whatever situation they are To be effective you have to be your personal goals you have to plan your actions and be reflective from time to time

BEING CONFIDENT

KNOWING YOURSELF

BEING

COURTEOUS

If you are courteous, your good manners show friendliness and concern for others, like your courteous habit of holding the door for people entering a building with you. ... So courteous behavior is a reminder of the value of good manners.

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle. To truly know yourself is the most important skill you can ever possess. When you know who you are, you know what you need to do, instead of looking for permission from others to do what you already know you ought to do.

Confidence means feeling sure of yourself and your abilities not in an arrogant way, but in a realistic, secure way. Confidence isn't about feeling superior to others. It's a quiet inner knowledge that you're capable. Confident people feel ready for everyday challenges like tests, performances, and competitions.

BEING PROPERLY DRESSED

BEING SENSITIVE AND KNOW YOU BODY LANGUAGE

Clothes reflect who you are, how you feel at the moment and sometimes even what you want to achieve in life? Always remember whatever you wear should reflect the real you. Your dressing sense reflects your personality, character, mood, style and what actually you are as an individual.

HAVING A POSITIVE OUTLOOK

Body Language is a significant aspect of modern communications and relationships. Therefore, it is very relevant to management or leadership and to all aspects of work and business where communications can be seen and physically observed among people.

Body language is also very relevant to relationships outside of work, for example in dating and in families and parenting.

In terms of observable body language, non-verbal (non-spoken) signals are being exchanged whether these signals are accompanied by spoken words or not.

A positive attitude is mental outlook of optimism and of expecting good things to happen. A positive attitude can affect your life favorably in all areas. People with a positive outlook, view life, challenges, and the situations they go through, with confidence and are sure they can deal with them.

BEING FRIENDLY

BEING TACTFUL IN GIVING YOUR OPINIONS

Being friendly isn't just about approaching others with few good words; it's also about caring for them. You treat others in a humble way because you care about them and their happiness. You help other people on the grounds that you see yourself in them. Polite words don't need to be restricted to individuals we know.

Tact is the ability to tell the truth in a way that considers other people's feelings and reactions. It allows you to give difficult feedback, communicate sensitive information, and say the right thing to preserve a relationship.

BEING HUMBLE

BEING A GOOD LISTENER

Humble people are still self-efficacious; they just don't feel the impetus to boast about themselves but instead, let their actions speak for their ideals. To be humble is not to think less of oneself, but to think of oneself less.

Listens attentively and respectfully to others' ideas, opinions, points of view. Asks insightful questions. Encourages speaker through appropriate use of posture and body language.