SELF-CONCEPT
Lesson 1
What is Personal Development?
– It covers activities that improve
awareness and identity, develop talents
and potential, enhance the quality of life
and contribute to the realization of
dreams and aspirations
– It is a lifelong process
SELF-CONCEPT
–refers to your awareness of yourself
– 2 Categories:
–Ideal self
–Actual self
IDEAL SELF
–the self that you aspire to be or how we
want to be
–It is an idealized image that we have
developed over time, based on what we
have learned and experienced
ACTUAL SELF
– is the one that you actually see
– the self that has characteristics that you were
nurtured or, in some cases, born to have
– Built on SELF-KNOWLEDGE (derived from
social interactions that provide insight into
how others react to you)
– 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
SELFCONCEPT
-awareness of
yourself
Ideal
Self
• is the self that you
aspire to be
• Characteristics that
you hope you will
possess
Actual
Self
• self that has
characteristics that
you were nurtured
or, in some cases,
born to have
• who we actually are
PERSONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
Lesson 2
PERSONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
making use of all the personal resources –
talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you
to achieve life goals
–Our personal effectiveness depends on our
innate characteristics – talent and experience
accumulated in the process of personal
development
–
– Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in
the process of cognitive and practical activities
– Talents first are needed to be identified and then developed
to be used in a particular subject area (arts, science,
literature, sports, politics, etc.)
– 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.
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.
❑ Self-confidence. It appears in the process of personal
development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your
actions and their consequences. Self-confidence is manifested in
speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and physical condition.
❑ Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward
regardless of emerging obstacles – problems,
laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the
costs of overcoming obstacles.
❑Managing stress. It helps combat stress that arises in
daily life from the environment and other people.
Stress – a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that
causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in
disease causation
❑Problem-solving skills. They help cope
with the problems encountered with a
lack of experience
❑Creativity. It allows you to find
extraordinary ways to carry out a specific
action that no one has tried to use.