Self management for personal development

The ability to manage oneself is Self Management. It is very important for the development of an individual. Self management skill is very essential for person in order to attain success in both personal life as well as professional life. Self-management helps an individual to become more responsible in life and helps one to realize his full potential. Although self management is widely discussed in the business scenario, it does not limit itself to this field only, in fact it deals with every aspect of human behavior. People who are able to manage themselves in a better way are able to maintain better relationships in their personal sphere as well. Self management also plays an important part in health care as patients are advised to be responsible for themselves. Let us take a look at the importance of developing self management skills in an individual.

Self management helps an individual in becoming a better employee. It includes being punctual, planning one’s day, and ensuring that the given work is completed on time. Self management encourages an individual to develop new skills over a period of time. In today’s scenario, it is important to be multifaceted.

Self management helps in the development of interpersonal skills.Self management helps an individual to develop good relationships with people.
Self management instills a sense of confidence in an individual which helps in problem solving.
Self management skills also help in ensuring that even the most difficult problems are dealt within a systematic manner. I suppose that self management skills should ideally start at the school level so that students are able to learn how to become responsible for themselves. Self-management techniques are vital to be a successful student. It is quite common that students drop-out of university or drop out their course not because they find the course too difficult to cope with, but because they become overwhelmed by the workload and are unable to manage study commitments with work and family life. You can avoid this dilemma by being organized and maintaining a healthy balance in all areas of your life. This will help you minimize stress and stay motivated in your studies. There are a lot of challenges that we face on a day-to-day basis, and self management skills help us deal with these in a better way. There are times when the going gets tough and our emotions get the better of us, so it is important that we are able to regain our composure.

Where do you begin?
You begin by establishing a firm foundation. That foundation is “you”. You must know who you are, what you want, and what you are capable of. You must then determine which values, goals and principles you will set up to guide your actions.

And if you determine that you really want to develop yourself , you need to: 1. Know Yourself
2. Love Yourself
3. Be True To Yourself.
Special Self Management Skills:
We all want to be an awesome person in our place but it may difficult without personal development. And there has some special skill that will help one’s to become awesome! 1. Time Management and Planning Skills: Pareto’s law states that 80 percent of our output is generated by 20 percent of our efforts. Time Management Skill is simply having the ability to recognize and solve time management problems. It is as the old adage says, to never put off for later what can be done right now. You can develop this personal management skill by keeping a calendar and beginning to schedule everything. You heard right, everything. This includes scheduling your free time and the time it takes to get from one meeting to another.Think about what happens when your scheduled meeting ends at 3:00pm and your next appointment is scheduled for 3:00pm. You are either going to leave the first meeting early or you will be late to your next appointment. You failed to schedule travel time between the meetings. When you take the time to plan your day’s activities and practice the discipline of following your daily plans you will develop the ability to start and finish projects when you are supposed to. You will also become much more adept at estimating how long a project or a task will take to accomplish. In addition, whatever you do, do not procrastinate. Procrastination is the number one offender against your ability to manage time.

2. Financial Management Skills:Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad-“It is not how much you make that counts but how much money you keep”. Money management is the wall upon which your personal management skills sit lopsidedly like humpty dumpty. On one side, through the disciplines of successful financial management comes successful personal management as well. A 27 year old woman once stated that she was going to become a millionaire. You might scoff at such a remark but after ten years, she had earned ten million dollars and had given 3 million dollars away to charities. The woman was determined to manage her financial status in a way that brought great wealth. She used personal management skills to achieve her goal.

Create a budget and tailor your spending to meet its requirements. Save every receipt from every purchase that you make in one month and find out how much money you’re really spending. You might be surprised to find out where your money is actually going.

Create income and expense reports that allow you to see the bigger picture of your financial situation.
Manage your personal finances as if you were managing a business’s finances.

When you are on the road to successfully managing your financial situation, you are growing exponentially towards becoming awesome. 3. Communication Skills: Until you know your voice and can confidently share what is on your mind, personal management will not become a larger part of your affairs. Knowing your own voice gives you the ability to carry a healthy inner dialog, which then confidently guides you towards your goals. With great communication skills comes the power to influence and encourage others and yourself. You won’t be able to practice personal management until you’re able to listen to that inner dialog and understand where you are headed.

Practice active listening. Try to look the person speaking in the eyes and think only about the words that they are speaking. Speak slowly and ask questions to test whether the listening party understands what is being communicated. When writing, always write a first draft and edit the draft into a final copy after asking whether the purpose of your communication is clear and understandable. When you find yourself caught up in your own thoughts, try to relax and “Watch” the thinker thinking those thoughts. You are not your thoughts. You are greater than your thinking.

4. Continued Self-Development Skills
This is the most important personal management skill of them all. Without the ability to continue moving forward with personal development you will be unable to recognize the areas that need to be corrected in order to increase your time, financial, communication, and organization skills.

Without continued self-development, your personal management skills will falter and the awesome person that you are will fail to reach its full potential.

Schedule a weekly appointment with yourself
Spend time each morning focusing on what it is you’re going to accomplish for the day Review your day at its closing and accept the areas Remain open-minded and flexible. Remember, change is inevitable. Create goals and long term objectives . No matter what, continue moving forward

By practicing these 5 personal management skills you will assert yourself towards productive personal management. You will find yourself much more confident and relaxed in your everyday dealings. Your finances will be more of a blessing that a pain. You will be understood and you will know exactly where you are heading. Through personal management your integrity will far outshine your faults and you truly will become…awesome.

And finally, it is true to all that Self Management will help an individual to-know and understand himself better, live life more consciously and deliberately, attain personal satisfaction and fulfillment.