IMPORTANCE OF SELF MANAGEMENT

Self-management is the ability to manage your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions in a
conscious and productive way. It’s a core skill for personal and professional success because it
helps you stay focused, organized, and motivated even in stressful or challenging situations.

You can make a plan….

Prioritise tasks: you can list the task (homework,sports,projects)and them by due date or
importance.

Create a schedule :set tie for each task,like 2 hours foe home work afterschool,1 hour for
sports ,and one hour fur project

Stick on the plan:By following the schedule ,you can complete the homework,enjoy sports practice
and work on your project .
Self management skills:
It comprises some key skills

Self mangeent skills

SELF ORGANISATION
AWARENESS SKILL

SELF ACCOUNTABILIT
INTITATIVE MOTIVATION Y
Initiative – How to Develop It

Intiative means doing the thing being told what do do . Intiative requires one to believe in ones own capabilities and be resilent to work,even when
faced with obstruction and disappointment.
It have two types,
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Self awareness:

Self-awareness enables you to take initiative to identify your own strengths, weaknesses, hidden talents, skills, and habits.

Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses

Few questions that can help you find your strengths and weaknesses are:

Strengths

How am I different from others?

What do other people admire in me?

What do I do better than others?

What makes me stand out?

Weaknesses
• Where do I worry and struggle?
• Where, how and why do others perform better than me?
• What advice for improvement do I often receive from others?
Developing Interests and Abilities
Interests are the things that we enjoy doing.
For example, a student who realises they are good at math may develop an interest in
engineering or finance.

Self Motivation
It serves as the internal drive that compels you to act. You are motivated to do tasks on
your own without any external motivation.

Organisation Skill
Organisation skill is the ability to use your time, energy, and resources effectively to
achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
Develop Team Work
Teamwork is an important organisational skill. Effective teamwork involves collaborating with
others to achieve a common goal. Team members must organise themselves to divide
responsibilities effectively, ensuring that everyone knows their role and what needs to be done.

Identify and Define Specific Goals

To achieve a goal, it is important to clearly define your goal. For example, your goal is to have a
holistic growth, which encompasses intellectual, physical, artistic, emotional, creative, and social
development.

Break Down Goals into Smaller Tasks

Adopt the SMART strategy while setting and defining your targets. SMART is an acronym for
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time‑bound.

Specific: A well‑defined task helps you to focus your efforts. For example, instead of saying, “I
will cover my syllabus in time,” a more specific task would be, “I will complete Subject ‘A’ by
tomorrow.”
Measurable:Make your progress measurable. For example, rather than saying, “I will
speed up my learning,” a more measurable target would be, “I will solve 20 Math problems
in 2 hours.”

Achievable: Set targets that are realistic and can be achieved. Setting unattainable
targets results in a false sense of success, loss of motivation, and low self-regard. For
example, rather than saying, ‘I will learn this whole poem in 1 hour’, a more achievable
target would be to say, ‘I will read this poem five times now’.

Realistic: Devise a realistic plan. For example, rather than saying, ‘I will devote 8 hours
to my studies after school every day’, a more realistic goal may be to say, ‘I will study 3–4
hours regularly’.

Time-bound: A time-bound target informs you whether you are progressing at the right
pace or not. For example, rather than saying, ‘I will complete this chapter’, a time-bound
target would be, ‘I will finish this chapter by 8 pm’.
Time-management
It refers to managing time effectively so that the right time is allocated to the right activity.

Planning:
An important part of time management is planning. In order to control your workload, it is
important to learn to plan each day, week, month, and year. When you follow your plan, you are
more organised. A good work plan enables you to start being realistic about how much work you
can take on, how much time it will take, and what activities it will involve. For example, when
you get your exam date sheet, prepare a study plan. Write down how many exams you have
and the days on which you have to take them. Then organise your time accordingly. You may
want to give some exams more study time than others.

Estimate the time required for each task:

Be realistic in estimating the time required to accomplish the tasks as it helps you to plan
effectively. For example, if you are participating in a debate contest, estimate how much
research time you need, how long it will take you to write, proofread, and practice it.
Prioritise and schedule:
Prepare your schedule to accommodate the planned tasks and other activities. Prioritise your tasks based
on importance and urgency while preparing your schedule. For example, consider your school calendar for
exams, weekly and daily assignments, school events, family special events, friends’ birthdays, etc.

Spending the right time on the right activity:

Set a time limit to complete the task. If you set a time constraint on a particular task, it will make you more
focused and efficient. For example, instead of working on a project and thinking of doing it until it’s done,
set a limit of, say, 5 hours.
Accountability

Accountability is a vital component of self-management.

The main difference between responsibility and accountability is that responsibility can be
shared, while accountability is personal.

It is the mindset where a person is expected to take ownership of his actions and not to blame
other people or events for delays, failures, and incompletion.
Maintaining Personal Hygiene
Maintaining personal hygiene is a basic responsibility that reflects your commitment to self-care and
respect for yourself and others.
Avoiding Procrastination
Procrastination is defined as the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished.

However, procrastination not only results in loss of productivity, but it also often results in guilt and
loss of self-confidence.

Adopting a Problem-solving Attitude

Despite all the planning, you may face hardships, obstructions, delays, and failures in your life. When
such hindrances occur, it is natural for people to get into a problem-centred mindset. People try to
find the source of the problem and blame other people or events for the delay or failure. However,
problem-centred mindset does not help to achieve anything. On the other hand, a solution-centred
attitude helps one to focus on the possible solutions, which not only lifts the spirit but also resolves
the problem and helps you to move towards success.
Managing Your Own Emotions
Emotions always get in the way of rational interpretation of a situation. They usually prevent us
from working towards the best or most constructive solutions. Often, people either over-express
their feelings (excessive anger, passiveness) or suppress their feelings to cope with the situation.
Positive Results of Self-Management
Self-management allows us to set up our priorities and allocate time, resources, and efforts for
activities according to the preferences that we have set. Therefore, it helps us to avoid
unnecessary confusion, delays, the stress of pending tasks, and the guilt of not being able to
attend to important issues.

Makes you more organised: While planning your schedule like allotting time slots for your
studies, relaxation breaks, and other essential activities, you learn the vital skill of organising and
allocating all your resources.

Instills discipline: When you make a schedule and commit yourself to do it in the stipulated
time, you reject other unimportant invitations from anyone else.
Helps in attaining goals: If you make a schedule for exams and follow it in a
disciplined way, you will be able to prepare for your exams and attain your set goals.

Enhances self-confidence: When you set goals and achieve them, that gives you the
confidence to pursue more significant and more challenging goals. Self-confidence, in
turn, gives you the courage to take the initiative wherever there is an opportunity. This
cycle of initiating and achieving goals helps you rise higher in life.

Commands respect from others: When people around you, your family, teachers,
classmates and friends watch you performing to achieve good results without any push
or supervision they start respecting you.