NAME:- DURGA PRASAD MAHAPATRA

STD- 10 (XTH)
ROLL.NO-14

GUIDED BY:-
MR. SANTESWAR MOHANTY
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude
to my I.T teacher Mr. Santeswar Mohanty as well as
our Principal sir Mr. B.D Nayak who gave me the
golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the
topic “Self-Management Skills” which also helped me
in doing a lot of research and I came to know about
new things, I am really thankful to them.
. .
Secondly I would also like to thank my parents and
friends who helped me a lot in finalizing the project
with limited time frame.

Submitted By:-
Durga Prasad Mahapatra
STD- X
CHINMAYA VIDYALAYA, THERUBALI
 •CONTENT OF THE PROJECT

•WHAT IS SELF MANAGEMENT ?

1

•SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS

2

•WHAT IS STRESS?
3

•STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

4

•ABILITY TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY

5

•SELF AWARENESS
6

•SELF REGULATION
7

•SELF MOTIVATION
8

•SELF CONFIDENCE and SELF ESTEEM

9

•IMPORTANCE OF SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS

10
 SELF MANEGEMENT

WHAT IS SELF MANAEMENT?

Self management is the ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, behaviours

and taking charge of all aspects of life at physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual and
professional levels.

It means ‘managing ourselves ‘ and taking charge of all aspects of our life- physical, mental,
emotional, social, spiritual and professional; having an optimal balance leading to increased
productivity and increased satisfaction.

Impact of Self Management

➢ It helps us in controlling our negative emotions, behaviours and habits.
➢ It helps us to have control over our bad actions.
➢ It helps us to be well organized
➢ It helps us to tale ownership of our efforts, actions and work.
➢ It helps us to take up challenges and achieve our goals.

SELF MANEGEMENT SKILLS

Self management is not a talent that a person is born with; rather it is a set of
skills that can be acquired by anybody by putting time and efforts to learn. It is all about our
ability to control our feelings, emotions, and actions.

The set of self management skills include many but mainly the following:-

➢ Stress Management
➢ Self-Awareness
➢ Self-Motivation
➢ Self-Regulation
➢ Self-Control
➢ Self Confidence
➢ Self-Belief
➢ Time Management
➢ Healthy Diet and Lifestyle
 WHAT IS STRESS
What is “STRESS” ?

Stress is a charged up internal condition of our body in response to some repulsive

external and internal situations. It is the truth of the day and you can’t deny it. Stress can
either be positive or negative and phrased the good stress( like getting a job promotion)
as “eustress” and the negative stress ( like anxiety produced by abusive working
situations) as “distress”
Sources of Stress
On the basis of its stimulus, researchers have found 4 factors to be the source of Stress:-

Survival Stress:- It is generated by a do-or-die situation and is a common

response to such dangers by human beings and animals alike. This kind of
Stress puts you in danger of immediate harm physical or psychic. In response
to it the adrenal glands of our body which is situated near the kidney naturally
respond with the charge of hormonal secretions like adrenalin and cortisol in
your bloodstream which feels like a burst of energy being formed in and this
ignites our instinctive ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ response.

Internal Stress:- It is generated by pent up worries, frustration and

apprehension in inner self and is a common response, mostly by human being,
to such inhibiting feelings. This kind of stress unlike survival stress, keeps on
building up inside our body and hindering our open outlook towards life. It
obstructs our overall performance. It could be the result of our self-imposed
worries about things over which we hardly have any control.

Environmental Stress:- It is generated by the uncomfortable feeling of

things/situations in the surroundings such as noise, crowd, extremely hot or
cold climate, continuous rain, impending flood, rising prices hike, old and
ailing parents, mischievous classmates, a noisy neighbour,a complaining
friend, demanding parents, a strict teacher, a bullying senior, etc. Some of
these factors will be within your control while others may be beyond your
control.

Fatigue and overwork related Stress:- It is generated by the fatigue and over
work that you build up over a period of time as a result of your highly
demanding study routines, ever increasing ambition, setting up unrealistic
goals and exerting yourself much beyond your mental and physical capacity.
 STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

Stress is a very powerful force that involves awareness, attention and energy. It can be
managed to empower you.

Some ways to Identify our stress:-

❖ Finding out “alarm response” or signs and symptoms of stress.

❖ Identifying your physical and mental signs of stress.

❖ Finding out what causes stress in you.

❖ Find out what are your personal signs of stress.

Some ways to manage our stress:-

❖ Yoga for breathing exercise:- Allowing yourself in a lesson of a breath of full oxygen for
bringing in a good supply of it to your brain is also an effective way of dealing with stress.

❖ Meditation:- Meditation helps in enhancing our mindfulness regular meditation can bring
abundance of speech to your mind and calm and composure to your body.

❖ Physical exercise:- One common sign of getting stressed is that your muscles contract which
further adds to your discomfort with headache, back pain, muscle pull and high blood
pressure relaxing your muscle by Deep breathing lying down with closed eyes or sitting with
a firm head support is almost always better idea to deal with stress.

❖ Vacations:- Taking vacations relaxes the mind and thus reduces stress.

❖ Travel:- It experience knowing about different places thus the current environment changes
thus reduces stress.

❖ Nature Walk:- Like any other cardiovascular exercise, brisk walking boosts endorphins,
which can reduce stress hormones and alleviate mild depression. Even a walk as short as
thirty minutes every day (or as often as possible) can lower your heart
rate, ease your anxiety, and relieve your stress–and it can also be quite scenic.
 ABILITY TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY

One of the ability that we require the most is our ability to work independently. Working
independently actually means one
Being self awareness as monitoring and self regulating
Knowing what you need to do and when
Taking initiative rather than waiting for someone else to give us instruction what to
do
Doing what is asked to the best of our ability without any external or internal fear.
Learning to walk at a decent place so that our work is completed on time.
Taking ownership of our mistakes and not looking for excuses or ‘blame-game’.
Not letting our self doubt or negative emotions hamper our present or future actions.

The following are the seven necessary skills that we need to hone in order to work
independently:
❖ Organizational Skills:- It is an essential requirement to know what to do when and
where to start and went to finish everything on time.
❖ Multitasking Ability:- It is your ability to work on more than one thing at a time and
complete each of them with required for proficiency.
❖ Discipline:- It is most important skill to keep you and your action in track for the
successful completion of your task at hand.
❖ Cheating Skills:- It is your ability to see the bigger picture. It calls forsightedness and
willingness to accommodate others’ ideas for benefit of all.
❖ Flexibility or Adaptability:- It is your quality to adapt your working style without
compromising with the quality of work to suit other people working with you.
❖ Ability to deal with rejection and not to take it personally:- This calls for a never-say-
die attitude and open mindedness to face failures and yet not get this had turned and
start afresh.

SELF AWARENESS AND ITS TYPE

SELF AWARENESS

Self-awareness refers to your knowledge and understanding of yourself- your

emotions, beliefs, values, biases, knowledge base, abilities, motivations, interests, etc.
Your self-awareness includes recognition of your own personality, your strengths and weaknesses,
your likes and dislikes. It makes you conscious of your own mood emotions and drives.

TYPES OF SELF-AWAREMESS
➢ Self-awareness of your strengths: Take time to discover your strengths. Discover your
strengths by paying attention to the kind of work you do or want to do, what kind of
work do you feel energized to work on, what do others comment on the quality of your
work, what types of projects are you naturally drawn toward.
➢ Self-awareness of your weaknesses: Discovering your weaknesses builds your humility.
As you discover that you cannot do everything, you either learn them yourself or be
humble enough to ask for someone else's support.
➢ Self-awareness of your dark side: Your dark side includes your character flaws and your
hidden weaknesses. Don't hide them rather try to overcome them with the help of
friends and family.
➢ Self-awareness of your emotional triggers: These are your trigger points. Sometimes
known to you at other times not known to you. The best way to deal with them is to
keep your calm and composure in the worst of the situations. Remember that knowing
your emotional triggers helps you develop a strategy for remaining calm in those
situations.

SELF REGULATION
In the recent years, self-regulation or systematic efforts to direct thoughts, feelings, and
actions towards the attainment of one's goals has assumed great importance in the psychological
and educational literatures.

Your self-regulation allows you to keep a tab on your own emotions resulting as your
response to a specific event and attune your actions accordingly to accomplish your set goal.

Your self-regulation also enables you to develop your own idea about 'what is appropriate
behaviour' and 'what is inappropriate behaviour' in a given social condition.

With developed self-regulation you think before you act and most of the times you know
how to control your negative impulses over not-so-pleasant situations and let you go your emotions
when you weigh the situation and find it apt and conducive to receive and reciprocate your emotion
for actualizing your set goals.

Even goal setting is an integral component of self-regulation effective goal setting requires
you to set a long term goal, break it into short term, attainable sub-goals, monitor progress and
assess capabilities, adjust the strategies and goal as needed, and set a new goal when the present
one is attained
 SELF MOTIVATION
Self-motivation refers to your ability to identify effective methods of getting yourself to move from
thought to action. Every human being is different. Some individuals are highly self-motivated
while others require the imposition of external deadlines or some type of reward or penalty in
order to move from thought to action. Identifying your specific needs in this area is the first step.

WAYS FOR SELF - MOTIVATION

➢ Find and list your motives (needs and desires)

➢ Find different sources of motivation and inspiration (music, books, activities)

➢ Think expensive thoughts

➢ Live fully in the present moment that you have big dreams

➢ Dream often everyday

➢ Remember that nothing is impossible

SELF CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM

Self Confidence Vs Self Esteem

Self confidence is like and respects ourselves and have a belief in our abilities and
strengths.

Self-esteem is how much positive regard and self love we have for our self.
SOME TIPS TO BUILD SELF CONFIDENCE ARE:-
➢ Achieve Goals

➢ Build Self Image

➢ Emphasize Strengths

➢ Accept failures Gracefully

➢ Take risks

➢ See the larger perspective

➢ Don’t be bothered about what people say

➢ Do things that make you happy

 ➢ Help others
IMPORTANCE OF SELF MANAGEMENT
SKILLS
HOW TO IMPROVE SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Enhance your self-management skills by actively focusing on ways you can direct, evaluate and
improve upon your daily tasks. Here are a few ways you can improve your self-management skills:

1. Assess your strengths. Determine what professional tasks you’re best at, and focus on ways
to maximize your abilities in these areas. Understanding your strengths helps you manage
your career path in a way that makes the most of skills like coding, technical writing, graphic
design or customer service.

2. Prioritize your responsibilities. Clearly define which responsibilities are most important, and
focus your attention on the most critical jobs, avoiding distractions that draw you away from
what matters.

3. Develop organizational systems. Find effective methods that help you manage your time,
streamline your daily activities and keep important items in easy-to-find places. This step
might include using an agenda book, setting up a time-management app on your phone or
creating a filing system at your desk.

4. Create strict deadlines. Assign deadlines to each stage of a project, and maintain your
schedule. Hold yourself accountable for getting tasks done on or ahead of schedule by
committing to put in more hours when needed to reach your self-designated checkpoints.

5. Perform one task at a time. Focus your time, energy and abilities on a single task at any
given moment. Complete each task fully before moving on to another so that you’re
managing your time and effort efficiently.

6. Practice patience. Maintain a sense of calm so you can think clearly and objectively. Be
considerate of others, and try to empathize with their needs and experiences to more
effectively help them.
IMPORTANCE OF SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Self-management seems to be a basic prerequisite for effective management of other people,
groups, organizations and societies”.

Self-management skills allow to maximize our productivity, improve our workplace performance
efficiently achieve professional goals.

In addition to that, self-management skills can help to increase our employability and better
management of our career path.

In broadly, self-management consist with self- disciplinary management, self-marketing

management, self-finance management, self-career management, self-quality management,
self-mastering, and self-care management.

These all parts are the totality of our life.

If we properly manage these areas of our lives that mean we are totally, successful.

The importance of self-management is can be identified in different ways.

The most important one is almost all workers are suffering serious stress.

This achieves our goals and objectives.

If we know how to manage our self, then we will recognize the impact of emotion and thoughts
on given action.

This will supports us to be more responsible and equipped to evaluate our work and determine
the ways to proceed.

Not only are the above mention direct benefits of self-management, some authors have
mentioned, there are some indirect benefits.

When the employees highlighting their self-management skills appropriately then the employers
can give due recognition.

In other way, candidates can include specific self-management skills on their resume.

Further they can elaborate on how it can be used them to improve their productivity or
efficiency.

Even at the interview, the candidate can use his or her self-management skills to build positive
image and get the expected job opportunity.
 On the other hand, employers can include self-management practices as criteria of employee’s
performance evaluation.

Then employees recognize the importance of practicing self-management.

This leads to benefits both parties: employers and employees.

AT LAST:- TIME MANAGEMENT

Without time management nothing would happen. Time management is the thinking skill that
helps you to :-

complete tasks on time.

make a daily timetable.
make a good guess at how long it will take you to do something.
submit homework and assignments before or on time.
not waste time during the day.
Four Steps for Effective Time Management
Tips for practicing the four steps for effective time management are as follows:
Avoid delay or postponing any planned activity
Organize your room and school desk
Develop a ‘NO DISTURBANCE ZONE’ where you can sit and complete important
tasks
Use waiting time productively
Prepare a ‘to-do’ list
Prioritize
Replace useless activities with productive activities