WELCOME TO

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
COURSE CONTENT:
There are 4 units in PERDEV, as follows:
Unit 1 – Self-Development
Unit 2 – Aspects of Personal Development

Unit 3 – Building and Maintaining

Relationships
Unit 4 – Career Development
LESSON 1:
Knowing and Understanding
Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescence

Unit 1: Self-Development
Objectives:

Students should 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
Can understanding yourself
pave the way to self-
acceptance and better
relationship with others? How?
 Imagine yourself
looking into a mirror.
What do you see?
Do you see your
ideal self or your
actual self?
SELF-CONCEPT
Self-concept refers to your
awareness of yourself. It is your
personal knowledge of who you
are physically, mentally, socially,
emotionally, and spiritually.
Your ideal self is Your actual self,
the self that you however, is the one
aspire to be. It is the that you actually
one that you hope see. It is the self
will possess that has
characteristics characteristics that
similar to that of a you were nurtured
mentor or some or, in some cases,
other worldly figure. born to have.
The actual self is built on The ideal self is how we
self-knowledge. The want to be. It is an idealized
actual self is who we image that we have
actually are. It is how we developed over time, based
think, how we feel, look, on what we have learned and
and act. The actual self experienced. The ideal self
could include components of
can be seen by others,
what our parents have taught
but because we have no us, what we admire in others,
way of truly knowing how what our society promotes,
others view us, the actual and what we think is in our
self is our self-image. best interest.
There is negotiation that exists between the two
selves which is complex because there are
numerous exchanges between the ideal and
actual self. These exchanges are exemplified in
social roles that are adjusted and re-adjusted
and are derived from outcomes of social
interactions from infant to adult development.
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.
Portfolio Output No. 1 – Talent/Variety Show Presentation
Group yourselves according to your talents and abilities.
Your group shall have a presentation in front of the class.
The leaders of each group (including yours) shall rate your group
based on the following criteria:
• Performance – 5 points
• Creativity/resourcefulness – 5 points
• Teamwork – 5 points
• Audience impact – 5 points
Compute the average of ratings for your group and write this
average rating for your presentation in your journal. Write about
your experience as a group leader/member in this activity.
 PERSONAL
EFFECTIVENESS
Personal effectiveness means 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. Talents are needed to be identified
and then developed to be used in a particular
subject area (science, literature, sports, politics,
etc.).
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 is 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 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.
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.
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.
In the spaces indicated by
numbers, write down your
answers on 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

*make your banner colorful

Portfolio Output No. 2: Journal Reflection from My Banner
Reflect about your 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 your strength to
your best advantage?
 BUILD IN YOUR
STRENGTHES AND
WORK ON YOUR
WEAKNESSESS
Most failures emanate from
weaknesses that are not
recognized or probably recognized
but not given appropriate attention
or remedy. This could be a
weakness in communications,
personality or ability.
Instead of giving up or indulging in
self-pity, take action. Go for speech
lessons, get skills upgrading, attend
personality development sessions or
whatever appropriate remedies to
your perceived weakness.
Instead of simply focusing on your
weaknesses, recognize your own
talents and abilities, build on
them, utilize them to your greatest
advantage.
TAKING CHARGE OF
YOUR FUTURE
There are three kinds of
people in this world…
the Moviegoer
the Actor
the Scriptwriter
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.
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 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 are you among these three people?

Do you merely watch your life go? Why?

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?
 THE POWER OF
JOURNAL WRITING
 The purpose of journal
writing is to help you
become the Scriptwriter
of your life.
Four (4) practical reasons to maintain a journal

1. It is cost-efficient and available.

2. It is preventive and pro-active.
3. It is creative and productive.
4. It is personal and private.
PERFORMANCE TASK 1: My Journal.
You just need one (1) big
notebook to maintain a daily
personal journal.
Use the following questions as your
guide in writing your journal:
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?
Weekly Reflection (Summary)
Write your answers in your personal journal.
1. What have you discovered in yourself this
week?
2. What strengths or abilities that you
use/gain this week?
3. What are the weaknesses or qualities you
want to improve on?
Criteria for Journal Writing:
Thoughtfulness (Reflective) –– 3
Truthfulness (Honest) –––––––3
Thoroughness (Complete) ––– 2
Creativeness (Appearance) –––2
Total = 10
Activity: “This is Me, Myself and I”
Direction: Write a script about how you want
your life to be. Think of a title. Include the
talents and skills that you want to develop,
the career, the adventures, goals and dreams
that you want to experience and achieve.
Something that is unique of you that will
inspire others (3 paragraphs).
Activity: “Paint Me”
Direction: Draw or paint an object or a
symbol inside the box that best describe
yourself. An object or a symbol that
possesses your unique characteristics and
qualities as an individual being. Write an
explanation at least two (2) paragraphs on
why you have chosen that object or symbol.