PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT/ SELF
IMPROVEMENT
 - consists of activities that develop a person’s
capabilities and potential, build human
capital, facilitate employability, enhance
quality of life and the realization of your
dreams and aspirations.
 - is looking inward and focusing on ways to
better yourself
 - increases your self-awareness, your self-
esteem, increase your skills, and fulfill your
aspirations.
PERSONAL GROWTH
 Refers broadly to a subset of personality
development that relates to the process
of becoming better in a personally
meaningful way.
 Process of both understanding yourself
and pushing to reach your highest
potential. It means always asking yourself
who are you becoming and how you
plant to get there.
Most Essential Learning Competency:
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Explain that knowing oneself can make a person
accept his/her strengths and limitations and
dealing with others better;
2. Share his/her unique characteristics, habits, and
experiences;
Definition of know oneself
: to understand oneself fully: to understand
one’s own emotions, desires, abilities, etc.
What is the importance of knowing oneself?
You are the expert of your own being.
You are in charge of your thought and you
are your own personality. Independence
and self-awareness are also link to self
confidence. By knowing who you are and
what you stand for in life can help to give
you a strong sense of confidence.
Reading: SELF-CONCEPT
Imagine yourself looking into a mirror. What do you see? Do you see your
ideal self or your actual self? Your ideal self is the self that you aspire to be. It
is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a
mentor or some other worldly figure. Your actual self, however, is the one
that you actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were
nurtured or, in some cases, born to have. The actual self and the ideal self are
two broad categories of self-concept. Self-concept refers to 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.

Worldly figure: possessing or displaying significant experience and

knowledge about life and the world.
Worldly person: Someone who is worldly is experienced and known
about the practical or social aspects of life
The Self, in contemporary literature and even common
sense, is commonly defined by the following
characteristics: “separate, self-contained, independent,
consistent, unitary, and private” (Stevens, 1996). When
we talk about the self, being “separate,” it means it is
distinct, different and unique from others. It has its own
uniqueness that defines him/her from others. It has an
identity of its own, even twins, may it be fraternal, is very
much distinct from the other. When we are talking about
“self-contained,” we describe its existence as having its
own independence. It may exist with or without others; it
is self-containing of its own thoughts, characteristics and
volition. For example, we make our profile pictures in
social media, carefully choosing a picture that expresses
more of our thoughts, that tells us of what we are, that
tells us what we are in real life. Although, in these given
times, it is easy to create another “self” or deceive
someone using a make-up “self”
The actual self is built on self-knowledge. Self-
knowledge is derived from social interactions that
provide insight into how others react to you. The
actual self is who we actually are. It is how we think,
how we feel, look, and act
. The actual self can be seen by others, but because
we have no way of truly knowing how others view us,
the actual self is our self-image.

Reading: PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Personal effectiveness means making use of all the
personal resources – talents, skills, energy and time, to
enable you to achieve life goals. Your knowledge of
yourself and how you manage yourself impacts
directly on your personal effectiveness. Being self-
aware, making the most of your strengths, learning
new skills and
techniques and behavioral flexibility are all keys to improving
your personal performance. Our personal effectiveness
depends on our innate characteristics – talent and
experience accumulated in the process of personal
development. Talents first are needed to be identified and
then developed to be used in a particular subject area
(science, literature, sports, politics, etc.). Experience includes
knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of
cognitive and practical activities.
Knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an
action plan to achieve them and risk assessment. Skills also
determine whether real actions are performed in
accordance with the plan. If the same ability is used many
times in the same situation, then it becomes a habit that runs
automatically, subconsciously. Here are some skills that will
greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns
them:
1.NOTINAMIERTDE
2.LESF- DIFENCENCO
3.SISREPCENET
4.GINGANAM TESRSS
5.MELOBPR-LOVINGS LSILKS
6.IVTITYERCA
7.RANETNGIGE- EDISA
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. 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.
What I Have Learned
1. The Self has several distinctive characteristics that separate
from other “selves.”
2. The Self has its own experiences and emotions, which is very
different and unique in any other way.
3. Self-Concept is a combination of both our actual-self
(present) and ideal-self (future self).
4. Self-Concept can also be our comparison to others, even our
people who have a direct and indirect influence.
5. Our observation of ourselves and others, the feedback from
others, our historical or cultural perspective also play a role in
shaping our self-concept.
6. Having self-knowledge in our aspects and historical
beginnings also provide essential information shaping our
actual self, which is very much closer or far from our ideal self.
7. In the process of merging our actual self and ideal self, our
social roles provide us the adjustment in the changing and
conflicting development of our society.
8. The actual and ideal self can’t be confused in defining
the “self”. It must be collated and defined according to its
aspects and its development and even lapses, of the self is
very unique in every individual in which they have unique
definition and expression.
 Hi! I’m Leah
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