PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

LESSON 1: KNOWING ONESELF

• Self is a union of elements, namely: body,
thoughts, feelings or emotions, and sensations
that constitute the individuality and identity of a
person.
• The identity, character, or essential qualities of
any person or thing.
• The body constitutes your physical attributes,
your health, and your posture and poise.
• Your thoughts, the way you think, and how you
perceive things around you affect how you feel
about them and bring about sensations.
• These emotions and sensations that you
experience prompt you to act and behave the way
you do.
• The union of these elements makes up your
character or personality, and essentiality
distinguishes you from others.
 Adolescence
• is a transitional period between childhood
and adulthood, usually seen as being
bound by puberty at the lower end and by
the assumption of adult responsibilities at
the upper end (Rathus, Spencer, 2014).
• The phase of life between childhood and
adulthood . ( 10- 19).
• This can be viewed by different developmental
standpoints, which can be influenced by different
factors such as biological, cognitive, emotional, and
social changes.

• Below are three phases of the adolescence stage

and a brief description for each stage.
• Early Adolescence - (approximately 12-
14 years) – characterized by emerging
physical changes brought by the onset
of puberty stage.
• There is a struggle for self-identity.
• Moodiness, Close friendships gain
importance.
• Middle Adolescence (approximately 15-
16 years) – characterized by self-involvement,
and the clash between high expectations for
self and poor self-concept; a time where
adolescents put effort to make new friends.
• Effort to make friends; Writing a diary,
feelings of strangeness about one’s self and
body.
• Late Adolescence (approximately 17-
19 years) – characterized by a higher
level of concern for the future and
thoughts about one’s role in life.
• Firmer identity; ability to think ideas;
stable interests; pride in one’s work
 SELF-CONCEPT

• ideal self - how we want to be

• actual self- is built on self-
knowledge.
• Self-knowledge is derived from
social interactions that provide
insight into how others react to you.
• Self-concept refers to your
awareness of yourself.
• It is the construct that negotiates
these two selves.
• There is negotiation that exists
between the two selves, which are
complex because there are numerous
exchanges between the ideal and
actual self.
• Alignment is important. If the way that I
am (the actual self) is aligned with the
way that I want to be (the ideal self), then
I will feel a sense of mental well-being or
peace of mind.
• If the way that I am is not aligned with how I
want to be, the incongruence, or lack of
alignment, will result in mental distress or
anxiety.
• The greater the level of incongruence
between the ideal self and real self, the
greater the level of resulting distress.
• Personal development module’s ultimate aim
is greater self-knowledge that will lead to a
higher alignment between these two
personality domains.
• Self- actualization refers to the achievement
of your potential through creativity,
independence, and an understanding of the
real world.
 Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses

• Being aware of how you look, think, feel,

and actively helps you to know more
about yourself.
• You gather more information about
yourself when you identify your strengths
and weaknesses.
• In knowing your strengths, you are more
empowered to do developmental tasks.
• These tasks include your capacity to
establish mature relationships with
other, emotional independence, ad
your ability to demonstrate
responsible behaviors.
• On the other hand, determining your
weaknesses give you the opportunity to know
your limitations or boundaries. In doing so,
you can identify situations where you have to
say no.
• For example, one of your weaknesses is
being impatient; thus, you find it very difficult
to conduct a research study.
 PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
• Personal effectiveness means making use of
all the personal resources – talents, skills,
energy, and time to enable you to achieve life
goals.
• 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 the 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:

• 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.
 Here are some skills that will greatly increase the
efficiency of any person who owns them:
• Self-confidence. It appears in the process of
personal development, as a result of getting aware
of yourself, your action, 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 a positive attitude, and believe
that by performing the right actions and achieving
the right goals, you will certainly reach success.
 Here are some skills that will greatly increase the
efficiency of any person who owns them:
• 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.
 Here are some skills that will greatly increase the
efficiency of any person who owns them:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 in costs,
but usually, the speed of action is greatly increased
when using creative tools.
• 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.
 Activity 1
• Directions: List down traits or characteristics
which you consider your strengths and
weaknesses.
 My Strengths My Weaknesses

1. 1.
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2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.
• In the graphic organizer below, list
down again your weaknesses and
write your brief solutions on how to
improve them.
 Weakness 1 2 3

• Solution 1

Solution 2

Solution 3