SELF AWARENESS AND SELF MANAGEMENT NSTP101

Self Awareness and Self Management

What is Self Awareness?
• is having a clear perception of your personality,
including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs,
motivation, and emotions
• Allows you to understand other people, how they
perceive you, your attitude and your responses to
them in the moment.
• Is the first step in creating what you want and
mastering it. Where you can focus your attention,
your emotions, reactions, personality andbehavior
determine where you go in life.

Characteristics of a Person
Eddie Babor discussed in his book ―The Human
Person, Not Real But Existing‖ that the human
person have several characteristics, among which
are the following:
1. Rational - Every person is a rational being. This
is what distinguishes a person from all other
creatures in the world. As a rational being, a person
is free to think and has the capacity to reason. He
can distinguish what is right and what is wrong
because he has intellect.
2. Free - All human beings are born free. A person
has the freedom to do or not to do a specific action.
However, every person must be responsible for his
own action. In other words, a person can do
whatever he pleases but not to the extent of doing
harm to his co-creatures.
3. Unique - Every person is unique. Every person
has his own identity such that no two persons are
the same. Generally speaking, human beings have
the same characteristics and physical features and
but no two persons are the same because every
person has its own perception, has different sets of
values and priorities in life.
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4. Social being - Every person is intrinsically a
social being. He cannot detach his ―being‖from
others and all other creatures in the universe.
Human nature is characterized by his togetherness
and relationship towards other creatures; be it a
thing, object or his fellowman.
5. Sexual - All created living things are sexual in
nature but the uniqueness of expression of a
person‘s sexuality makes it all different. The
expression of a person‘s emotions, attitudes,
feelings, actions and thoughts in sexual activity best
exemplifies his uniqueness from animals.
You as You
1. Know the difference between your biological or
inherited traits and your environmental or acquired
traits.
2. Self-awareness is an awareness of one’s own
personality or individuality.
✓ Be your own best friend and believe in
yourself, so that you become the person you
want to be.
✓ You are you and you are what you think.
✓ You are unique in your own way.
✓ Only you can control your destiny and make
a difference in your life
You as a Filipino
1. Being aware of and remaining constantly on
guard against the Filipino tendency towards
negativism
2. Use your “lakas ng loob” (courage and strength)
to move away from the fatalisitc “gulong ng palad”
(wheel of fortune) and “bahala na” (come what
may) attitude.
✓ Begin by getting involved with your own
life.
✓ Begin without expecting instant miracles.
✓ Believe in your abilities and work
unyieldingly to reach your objective.
You and Your Faith
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1. Recognizing Divine Providence2. Filipino
worship is directed towards God as a father-figure
who takes care of all- “Bahala na ang Diyos”
Your self-help concepts
-Self- improvement teachings Examples:
✓ Believe in Yourself
✓ Keep Your Priorities Straight
✓ Take Responsibility for Yourself
✓ Focus on What You Want
✓ Control Stress
✓ Do Everything with Love
Your self-made wall of negative self-talk
Negative Self-concept Examples:
 It’s just no use!
 I just know what it won’t work!
 That’s just my luck!
 I’m so clumsy!
 Everything I eat goes right to my waist.
 Today just isn’t my day!
 I can never afford the things I want
 I never have enough time!
 That really makes me mad!
 I’m too shy!
 I never know what to say!
 And the never ending list goes on…

The Self-Management sequence

1. Life is not a matter of luck or fortune

2. Success in self-management is always the result
of something else, something that leads up to it.
3. Most of what happens to you happens because of
you- something you created, directed, influenced, or
allowed to happen.

1. behavior
➢ Means our ACTIONS- How we act, what
we do, each moment of each day will
determine whether or not we will be
successful that moment or that day in
everything we do.
➢ What we do or do not do
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2. Feelings
➢ How we feel about something will always
determine or affect what we do and how we
will do it.
➢ Our feelings will directly influence our
actions.
➢ Our feelings are created, controlled,
determined, or influenced by our attitudes.
3. Attitudes
➢ Are the perspectives from which you view
life.
➢ Good attitudes are created, controlled, or
influenced entirely by our beliefs.
“The difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude”
4. Beliefs
✓ What we believe about anything will determine
our attitudes about it, create our feelings, direct
our actions, and influence us to do well or
poorly, or succeed or fail.
✓ Belief is a power to make something appear to
be something different than what it really is!
✓ Belief does not require something to be true: it
only requires us to believe that it’s true.
5. Programming
✓ Our conditioning from the day we were born
has created, reinforced, and nearly permanently
cemented most of what we believe about
ourselves and what we believe about most of
what goes on around us.
CONCLUSION…
1. Programming creates beliefs.
2. Beliefs create attitudes
3. Attitudes create feelings
4. Feelings determine actions5. Actions create results

THE LEVELS OF SELF- TALK

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Level I: negative acceptance

✓ The lowest, least beneficial, and the most harmful level
of self-talk
✓ You say something bad or negative about yourself, and
you accept it.
✓ “I can’t” “If only I could…”
Level II: recognition and need to change
✓ This level is beguiling.
✓ On the surface it looks as though it should work for us,
but instead, it works against us.
✓ “I need to…” “I ought…” “I would…”
Level III: decision to change
✓ Is the first level of self-talk that works for you.
✓ You recognize the need to change, but also you make
the decision to do something about it.
✓ You state the decision in the “present tense” like “I
never…” “I no longer…”
Level IV: better you
✓ The most effective kind of self-talk.
✓ You are painting a completed new picture of
yourself.
✓ “This is me I want myself to create” “ I am…” “
Yes I can”
Level V: universal affirmation
✓ self-talk which has been spoken for thousands of
years.
✓ Self-talk of “oneness” with God
✓ “It is…”
“I am one of the universe and it is one with me. I am fit, within it, and exist
as a shining spark in a firmament of divine goodness”
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RESOURCES

• National Service Training

Program Module (n.d.). Manila: Mapua Institute
ofTechnology.
• National Service Training Program (2014).
Valenzuela: Pamantasan ng Lungsod ngValenzuela
• Retrieved
from http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsyc
hology/fl/What-Is-Self-Awareness.htm

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