Final Term Assessment

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMEN
S U B M I T TED BY:
L AKS HI TA SAI N I
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CONTENTS

ATTENTION
01 How important is Attention to one’s success in life,
"Beauty attracts eye relationships and happiness? Please elaborate on this with
but personality examples from your own life or general observations in
others.
captures heart."
VALUES
02
How are Values important to our respective individual
personalities? How do our values influence our
professional and personal life? What is the process that
one could follow to arrive at one’s Top 5 values?

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 PART ONE
WHAT IS 01
ATTENTION?
Attention means deep listening, being totally present, having
empathy, trying to see from our partner’s perspective. It is a form of
love and respect. It also allows all are thoughts to come together and
helps to design a rational prespective towards it. It develops soft
skills from the iceberg principle which involves effective
communication, rapport building and interpersonal relations.
HOW IS ATTENTION
CONNECTED TO SUCCESS,
HAPPINESS AND
RELATIONSHIPS?
• Being focused or paying attention to a thing for certain period
allows us to do a better quality of work and allows creative ideas
flow easier. Being attentive allows us to get a clearer picture of
our goals and working undividely towards them helps us to
achieve the set targets. However, multitasking comes in the way
of attention and often results in inability to filter out distractions.
• Benefits of staying focused:
• 1.Makes us expeditious
• 2.Productive outputs CORRELATION
• 3.Reduced stress (as you don’t get puzzled between present
OF ATTENTION
and the distractive musings.
• Attention aids to explore current life situation and the one AND SUCCESS
desired and helps to plan a pathway between them. It also helps
with problem-solving, motivation and building resilience to help
IN LIFE
cope with setbacks as we move towards our goals. Being
attentive towards our target helps to prevent energy drain and
time wastage.
• Attention towards set goals makes us feel happier, safer, stronger
and more confident.
 • We all know how wonderful it feels to have someone’s undivided
attention. The best way to demonstrate the love and respect for
a person
0 is by paying attention to them. It a gesture through
which we feel blessed and bless others as well. It makes one soul
dwelling in two bodies and lest us from becoming two separate
souls in the crowd.
ATTENTION'S • Paying attention to each other allows the relationship to grow,
improves intimacy and keeps the distance at bay. But failing to
INTERCONNECTION pay adequate attention to their needs is a top cause of
TO RELATIONSHIPS relationship breakdown. Relationships continue to thrive when
each individual pays attention to the other’s need just as they
pay to their own.
•  When your mind is not filled up with concerns and your
attention is directed at a place and not elsewhere, you will
experience the magic and fullness of union with another.
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• Attention is how we nurture and feed. Attention is what we need
and crave.
• Attention is the glue that holds our life together.
• Our happiness is determined by how we allocate our
attention. What we attend to drives our behavior and it
determines our happiness. If we are not as happy as we could be,
then we must be misallocating our attention. So changing
behavior and enhancing happiness is as much about withdrawing
attention from the negative as it is about attending to the
positive. MUTUALITY OF
• We create our world with what we pay attention to. Paying
ATTENTION AND
attention to positive emotions literally expands our world, while
focusing on negative feelings shrinks it, a fact that has important HAPPINESS
implications for our daily experience and what we pay attention
to is not only events in the outside world, it’s often internal. The
past or the future preoccupies us and we switch attention to our
senses just enough to avoid walking into the furniture.
• Attention takes us on thriving adventure and a journey of self
discovery.
Attention for
Success

Attention for
Relationships
E.g.
Focusing on single task instead of
multi-tasking helps to achieve
desired goal. Undivided attention
helps us to make sure that the
work we are doing results in our
best in class performance.
Attention for
Happiness
E.g.
Giving attention to kids , partners
and friends ensure healthy
relationships. A family bonds
when they spend time together
after long tiring day at work and
other places.
Not paying attention towards
child also results in detachment
and pyschological issues.
E.g.
When we see things untangaling
in our life, everything sorted
because of our attention to
required task in required amount,
we achieve a sense of satisfaction
whch elevates our happiness
level.
After completing our assignments
defeating all the distraction gives
us sense of fulfillment.
 PART TWO
WHAT ARE VALUES? 02
Values drive our actions and establish priorities in life, guide decision
making, effect evaluation of success and happiness in life. Values vary
from person to person, for some people adventure is important
while for others security is, similarly some people are competitive
while others value cooperation.
Values are the beliefs
which clarifies that what is
important and desirable to
us. They serve as guiding
principles of our life.
 INCREASE SELF CONFIDENCE AND
DEVELOP A SENSE OF SELF
ELEVATE HAPPINESS LEVEL MAKE DECISIONS EFFICIENTLY

REACT RATIONALLY IN DIFFICULT SITUATION

CLEAR CLUTTER

IMPORTANCE OF VALUES IN
BUILDING INDIVIDUAL'S
CHOOSE RIGHT CAREER PATH FIND PURPOSE IN LIFE
PERSONALITY
 PROFESSIONAL LIFE PERSONAL LIFE

Clarity about our values is helpful at any
stage of life, including working life since
values guide our actions and behaviour
that decide our destiny. The individual’s
values are a good predictor of behaviour
in the workplace.
On the other hand, values like honesty,
kindness,Openness, self-awareness,
extraversion, optimism, humour,
compassion and passion blossoms
personal life.

VALUES
INFLUENCING
OUR PERSONAL
AND
PROFESSIONAL
The values especially help us make LIFE Being aware of our own personal values
can help not only us in living a life
decisions when we have a dilemma. according to our aspirations but also
Values like organisation, management, assures that we have made career
decision making, communication, decisions as per our own values and
acceptance, conscientiousness, understandings.
cooperation, agreeableness and
commitment helps to make professional
life swift.
 Some find their way to simplicity
while others find a way to
unleash their creativity.
The Buddha once said: "We are
what we think. All that we are
arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts we make the
world."
Having a clear understanding of our
SMPLICITY OR life and career values will help make
CREATIVITY? our decisions easier.
We all remember how whenever our favourite
SECURITY OR caricature used to face delimma, two
miniatures, one the devil and other the angel to
DREAM? make up teach the good and the bad,
representing the values.

What some people would view as a “dream”

opportunity to travel the world and be your
own boss may leave you feeling insecure and
craving a more settled existence. 
 STEP 1

STEPS TO
ACHIEVE ONE'S
TOP 5 VALUES: • Identify your values, what you find
most important and essential in
life.
• Identify the times when you were
happiest
• Identify the times when you were
most proud
• Identify the times when you were
most fulfilled and satisfied
 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4

Prioritize your top values Reaffirm your values • Practice a decision-making process
• Visualise a situation by looking • Do these values make you that provides you the opportunity
at the first two values and then feel good about yourself? to discover all of your choices so that
ask yourself, "If I could satisfy • Do these values represent you can make the best decisions.
only one of these, which would things you would support, • Repeat the process of brainstorming,
I choose?"  even if your choice isn't listing and prioritising on regular basis
• Use your values to guide your popular, and it puts you in the to unearth changing values based on
decision making and goal minority? experiences of happiness, pride, and
setting. fulfillment.
THANK YOU !