Self-Management Skills Chapter Notes - Class 10 PDF Download

Stress can be defined as our emotional, mental, physical and social reaction to any perceived demands or threats. These demands or threats are called stressors. Stressors are the reason for stress.

1. You are too close to the exams but feel unprepared.
2. You are experiencing a loss of someone close in the family.
3. You are worried about what people would think of you if you don’t dress well or cannot speak confidently.
4. You are stressed due to lack of sleep.

What is Stress Management?

Managing stress is about making a plan to be able to cope effectively with daily pressures. The ultimate goal is to strike a balance between life, work, relationships, relaxation and fun.

Always keep in mind the ABC of stress management
A: Adversity or the stressful event
B: Beliefs or the way you respond to the event
C: Consequences or actions and outcomes of the event

Here are a few simple stress management techniques.

1. Time Management: Proper time management is one of the most effective stress-relieving techniques.
2. Exercise and Fresh Air: A healthy lifestyle is essential for students. Stress is generally lower in people who maintain a healthy routine. Doing yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises help in proper blood circulation and relaxes the body.
3. Healthy Diet: Having a healthy diet or balanced diet will also help you reduce stress.
4. Positivity: Focussing on negative aspects of life will add more stress. Instead, learn to look at the good things and stay positive.
5. Organising academic life; no delaying: By keeping class notes organised, finishing in assignments on time, and keeping track of all deadlines, stress can be reduced to a great extent.
6. Adequate Sleep: We should get a good night’s sleep for at least 7 hours so that your brain and body gets recharged to function better the next day.
7. Holidays with family and friends: Going to a relative’s place, such as your grandparents’ house or a new place during your summer vacations can help you break from the normal routine and come back afresh.

Ability to Work Independently:

If you can become a calm and relaxed person, you will have the ability to work independently, which means.

• Becoming self-aware, self-monitoring and self-correcting.
• Knowing what you need to do.
• Taking the initiative rather than being told what to do.
• Recognising your mistakes and not blaming others.
• Having the ability and the will to learn continuously.

Emotional Intelligence:

Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. This usually includes three key skills –

1. Emotional Awareness: The ability to identify and name one’s own emotions.
2. Harnessing Emotions: The ability to harness and apply emotions to tasks like thinking and problem solving.
3. Managing Emotions: The ability to regulate one’s own emotions when necessary and help others to do the same.

Some steps to manage emotional intelligence are as given below –

1. Understand your emotions: Observe your behavior and note the things you need to work on. You can then work on the things you need to improve.
2. Rationalise: Do not take decisions abruptly; be rational in your thinking.
3. Practice: Do meditation and yoga to keep yourself calm.

Session 2: Self-awareness— Strength and Weakness Analysis

Finding Strengths (or abilities)

1. Think of anything that you are always successful at.
2. Think about what others like in you.
3. Take out time and think about what you do well.

Finding Weaknesses

1. Point out the areas where you struggle and the things you find difficult to do.
2. Look at the feedback others usually give you.
3. Be open to feedback and accept your weaknesses without feeling low about it. Take it as an area of improvement.

When your interests do not match your abilities, you can either improve your abilities or follow some other path. For example, you may like music, but you may not be good at singing. In that case, do not try to become a singer!

Session 3: Self-motivation

Self-motivation is simply the force within you that drives you to do things. Self-motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel happy and improve our quality of life. In other words, it is our ability to do the things that need to be done without someone or something influencing us.

There are two type of motivation –

1. Internal Motivation (Love): We do things because they make us happy, healthy and feel good. For example, when you perform on your annual day function and you learn something new, such as dancing, singing, etc., you feel good.
2. External Motivation (Reward): We do things because they give us respect, recognition and appreciation. For example, Suresh participated in a 100m race and won a prize. This motivated him to go for practice every morning.

There are some typical behaviors seen in self-motivated people which are as given below.

Building Self-motivation

1. Find out your strengths
2. Set and focus on your goals
3. Develop a plan to achieve your goals
4. Stay loyal to your goals

Question for Chapter Notes: Self-Management Skills

Try yourself:

What drives us to achieve our goals?

• A.

  Self-motivation
• B.

  External Motivation
• C.

  Luck
• D.

  Peer pressure

Explanation

Self-motivation is the force within you that drives you to do things. It helps you achieve your goals and improve your quality of life.

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Session 4: Self-regulation— Goal Setting

• Goals: They are a set of dreams with a deadline to get them, for example, saving pocket money to buy a favorite mobile phone by a particular date.
• Goal setting: It is all about finding and listing your goals and then planning on how to achieve them.

SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound.

• Specific Goal
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time bound

Session 5: Self-regulation— Time Management

Time Management and Its Importance

Time management is the ability to plan and control how you spend the hours of your day well and do all that you want to do.

Time management is the thinking skill that helps you to

• Complete tasks on time.
• Make a daily timetable.
• Make a good guess at how long it will take you to do something.
• Submit homework and assignments on time.
• Not waste time during the day.

Four Steps for Effective Time Management

1. Organize: Arrange our daily tasks systematically.
2. Prioritize: Create a to-do list and rank tasks by importance.
3. Control: Manage activities and time effectively.
4. Track: Identify and record how time is spent.

Tips for Practicing the Four Steps for Effective Time Management

• Avoid delay or postponing any planned activity
• Organise your room and school desk
• Develop a ‘NO DISTURBANCE ZONE’, where you can sit and complete important tasks
• Use waiting time productively
• Prepare a ‘To-do’ list
• Prioritise
• Replace useless activities with productive activities

Question for Chapter Notes: Self-Management Skills

Try yourself:

What is one step for effective time management?

• A.

  Relax
• B.

  Ignore
• C.

  Control
• D.

  Delay

Explanation

One important step for effective time management is to Control your activities and time. This helps you manage how you spend your day.

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