KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF

It is understanding your strengths, weaknesses, passion, fears and dreams. Being

conscious of your likes and dislikes and respecting your values in your life, your beliefs,
personality, priorities, moods, habits, body and relationships.

SELF-CONCEPT

 Refers to your awareness of yourself

 One’s abstract and general idea about him/herself
 It is how you know and understand yourself. It is the conceptual and mental
understanding that you hold for your existence
 “The view one has of himself/herself and his/her abilities”
 Is an individual’s perception of self and is what helps make each individual unique
 Positive and negative self-assessments in the physical, emotional, intellectual, and
functional dimensions change over time.

HOW TO KNOW YOURSELF?

1. Get to know your PERSONALITY

2. Get to know your CORE VALUES
3. Get to know your BODY
4. Get to know your DREAMS
5. Get to know you LIKES and DISLIKES
UNDESTANDING THE 4 PERSONALITY TYPES

TYPE A – THE DIRECTOR

 Goal-oriented
 Risk-taking
 Good under stress

TYPE B – THE SOCIALIZER

 Relationship-oriented
 Outgoing
 Enthusiastic

TYPE C – THE THINKER

 Detail-oriented
 Logical
 Prepared

TYPE D – THE SUPPORTER

 Task-oriented
 Stabilizing
 Cautious

TYPE X

 Combines two or more personality types when they are equal

CORE VALUES

 Are fundamental beliefs that a person lives by. These values are essential to your
existence and stick with you throughout.

SOME BASIC CORE VALLUES IN LIFE:

 Believe in yourself
 Forgive and forget
 Adaptability
 Be fun loving
 Responsibility
 Purpose
  Be compassionate
 Learn to accept
 Integrity and honesty
 Discipline

Knowing yourself is also about knowing your purpose in life because it leads to improved
decision making, setting and attaining goals and eventually living a more fruitful life.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOU SELF-CONCEPT

 Identify and recognize your strengths to improve confidence

 Learn to praise yourself
 Develop a positive attitude
 Spend time with supportive friends

 Happiness
 Better-decision-making
 Self-control
 Tolerance and understanding of others
 Fulfilment
 Resistance to social pressure
 Vitality and pleasure
 Less inner conflict

MY STENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Personal strength is what you do best and where your genuine talents are. Limitations are
attributes that you will have difficulty in doing.

STRENGTHS

 What you do very well – maybe better than anyone else

THERE ARE 3 RAW MATERIALS OF STRENGTHS:

 Talents
 Knowledge
 Skills

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO IDENTIFY YOUR STRENGTHS?

 Sets you apart from everyone else

 Leads to greater personal and professional development
 Improves effectiveness
 Makes your life more productive and fulfilled
 Helps you experience a feeling of “rightness”

WEAKNESS

 What you lack in or what you don’t do very well

 SELF-CONCEPT

IDEAL SELF ACTUAL SELF/SELF-IMAGE

IDEAL SELF

 How we want to be
 It is the self that you aspire to be
 It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor of some
other worldly figure
 The ideal self could include components of what our parents taught us
 It is an idealized image that we have developed over time, based on what we have learned
and experienced

ACTUAL SELF

 Our self-image
 It 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
 Is who we actually are
 It is how we think, feel, look and act
 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
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

 Making use of all the personal resources, talent, skills, energy and time to enable you to
achieve life goals

1. DETERMINATION
 It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less
important things. It may be developed with the help of self-discipline.
2. SELF-CONFIDENCE
 It is the result of getting ware of yourself, your actions and consequences. It is manifested
in speech, appearance, dressing and physical condition.
 A person with self-confidence generally likes themselves and is willing to take risks to
achieve their personal and professional goals, and thinks positively about the future while
someone who lacks self-confidence, however, is less likely to feel that they can achieve
their goals, and tends to have a negative perspective about themselves and what they
hope to gain in life.
HOW TO DEVELOP?
1. Learn yourself and your capabilities
2. Gain positive attitude
3. Believe that performing right actions and achieving right goals will help you
reach success

3. PERSISTANCE

 It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles, problems, laziness,
bad emotional states

4. MANAGING STRESS

 Stress rises in daily life from the environment and other people. It rises also from
uncertainty in an unknown situation when lack of information creates the risk of negative
consequences of your action

5. PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

 Adopting new ways, strategies, techniques of achieving goals or solving certain

challenges and problems encountered thus decision making is also being develop
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.