Personal Development

UNIT 1: SELF-DEVELOPMENT

MODULE 1: Knowing and Understanding

Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescence

(Week 2)

Prepared by:

MARILOU T. LUNA, JRA, LPT.

 MODULE 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself
during Middle and Late Adolescence

In this module, you will be able to:

1. explain that knowing yourself can make you accept your strengths and
limitations and dealing with others better;
2. share your unique characteristics, habits and experiences; and,
3. start and maintain a journal.

I hope you are curious about the activities we are about to do in

this module. READ the story below and somehow reflect on the
questions provided.

LET’S BEGIN!

Story: YOU NEED TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FUTURE

There are three kinds of people in this world:
The first is the Moviegoer. This person watches the movie of their lives,
admires some parts and criticizes others. Aside from that, they do nothing else. All
she says the whole day is, “I like this thing and but I don’t like that thing.” The
Moviegoer feels she has absolutely no control of their lives --- except to comment
about it. Moviegoers are the most pathetic, miserable people in the world.
The second is the Actor. This person does not only watch the movie of her
life. She actually realizes she’s the Actor – and can control a big part of her life. She
can actually make or break the movie – by how well she delivers her lines and how
she portrays her character. Actors are a happy bunch, realizing they’re the start of
the show and enjoy some level of control. But many times, they wish the movie would
end in another way – but realize that they have no say in such things.
The third is the Scriptwriter. This person does not only watch, and she
doesn’t only act, but she actually creates the entire movie from her mind. She
determines what she will say, what she will do, and how the movie will end. She
realizes she has enormous control over her life, and sees to it that the movie of her
life will turn out beautiful. Who

Who are you among these three people?

Do you merely watch your life go?
Or do you act out a script that you feel has been handed to you?
Or do you write the script and make your life beautiful?
By the way, the Producer of the movie is God. He tells you, “Make the movie beautiful, and I
will give you all that you need for success.”
 PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources –

talents, skills, energy and time, to enable you to achieve life goals.
Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage yourself impacts directly on
your personal effectiveness. Being self-aware, making the most of your strengths,
learning new skills and techniques and behavioral flexibility are all keys to improving
your personal performance.
Our personal effectiveness depends on our innate characteristics – talent and
experience accumulated in the process of personal development. 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 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:
1. 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.
2. 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. To develop it, you need to learn yourself and your capabilities, gain positive
attitude and believe that by performing right actions and achieving right goals you will
certainly reach success.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
 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.

THE POWER OF JOURNAL WRITING: UNFOLDING YOUR

PERSONAL JOURNEY

The purpose of journal writing is to help you become the Scriptwriter of your life.
There are four (4) practical reasons to maintain a journal:
1. It is cost-efficient and available. Emotional stress can be dealt in many ways
like talking to a friend over a cup of coffee, eating, travelling, shopping, painting
and many more but writing is the most inexpensive. Notebook and pens are
easy to find, available and do not cost so much.
2. It is preventive and pro-active. Writing yields self-awareness. When you write,
you can discover your strengths and limitations. You will know what your
reactions are in different situations and what better ways to prevent, avoid, or
face your fears.
3. It is creative and productive. Journal writing expounds your imagination. You
can see various dimensions of your problem, different points of view and better
solutions.
4. Lastly, it is personal and private. Unless you want to share your stories, you
have the choice to keep them to yourself. Writing is your time alone. It is your
way of loving yourself. You will not be judged by your writing.
Name: _____________________________________
Grade & Section: ___________________________
Date: _________________

ACTIVITY 1 MY BANNER – MY TREASURE WITHIN ME

In the spaces indicated by numbers, write down the following:

1 and 2 two things I do very well
3 and 4 my two greatest achievements in life
5 what in myself am I proudest of
6 my happiest moment
7 positive words that my friends use to describe me
8 a personal goal that I have already achieved
9 three blessings for which I am most thankful to God
10 three of my positive qualities
11 difficulties, challenges and problems that I was able to solve and overcome
Name: _____________________________________
Grade & Section: ___________________________
Date: _______________________________________

ACTIVITY 2 Journal Reflection from My Banner Write

Directions: Answer the following questions from your activity My Banner.

1. What do you consider as your weaknesses, abilities and talents?

2. What are the remedies you will take to improve or compensate for your weakness?

3. How can you further enrich your assets and strengths?

4. Where and how do you use it to your best advantage?

 REQUIREMENT

DIRECTIONS: You just need one (1) notebook to maintain a personal journal. In the
first page of your journal, write our subject, your name, and your strand and section.
At the upper right side of your first page, paste your 1x1 I.D. In the second page of
your notebook, start writing something on your journal for this week using the following
questions as your guide.
1. How do you find this day? What are the positive things that happened? What
are those things that made you irritated or upset?
2. As you reflect the ups and downs of your day, what may be the greatest lesson
you can learn from them? What actions have you done well and what actions
you can do better?
3. What do you really want in life? What do you want to achieve for yourself, your
family, your community, and your country?
4. As you close the day, what are the small and big things you are thankful of?
Who are the people that made your day extra special?

Processing: Write your answers in your journal.

1. What have you discovered in yourself?
2. What are your core strengths?
3. What are the qualities you want to hone and improve on?

Reminder!
You need to write on your journal every day and submit it to your teacher
for checking.