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• Self-development


  Personal development consists of activities that develop a person's capabilities and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, and enhance quality of life and the realization of dreams and aspirations. Personal development may take place over the course of an individual's entire lifespan.
• Self-development


  Is a continuous process of understanding and enhancing oneself in order to become effective and productive members of society.
• Communication skills


  The abilities you use when giving and receiving different kinds of information. Some examples include communicating new ideas, feelings or even an update on your project. Communication skills involve listening, speaking, observing and empathizing.
• Good communication skills


  Are essential to allow others and yourself to understand information more accurately and quickly. In contrast, poor communication skills lead to frequent misunderstanding and frustration.
• Verbal communication


  Is the use of sounds and words to express yourself, especially in contrast to using gestures or mannerisms (non-verbal communication). Refers to the production of spoken language to send an intentional message to a listener.
• Non-verbal communication


  Refers to gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contact (or lack thereof), body language, posture, and other ways people can communicate without using language.
• Time


  Can be defined as the ongoing and continuous sequence of events that occur in succession, from the past through the present to the future. Time is a used to quantify, measure or compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and even, sequence events.
• Stress


  Pressure or tension exerted on a material object.
• Stress management


  Effective stress management helps you break the hold stress has on your life, so you can be happier, healthier, and more productive. The ultimate goal is a balanced life, with time for work, relationships, relaxation, and fun—and the resilience to hold up under pressure and meet challenges head on.
• Stress


  Defines stress precisely as a person's physiological response to an external stimulus that triggers the "fight-or-flight" reaction.
• Eustress


  Moderate or normal psychological stress interpreted as being beneficial for the experiencer. Means beneficial stress—either psychological, physical, or biochemical/radiological. The term was coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye, consisting of the Greek prefix eu- meaning "good", and stress, literally meaning "good stress". A positive form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and emotional well-being.
• Distress


  Distress is an unpleasant emotion, feeling, thought, condition, or behavior. Distress can affect the way you think, feel, or act, and can make it hard to cope with having cancer, along with dealing with symptoms, treatment, and side effects.
• Problem-focused coping


  Is that kind of coping aimed at resolving the stressful situation or event or altering the source of the stress. Problem-focused coping is distinguished from emotion-focused coping, which is aimed at managing the emotions associated with the situation, rather than changing the situation itself.
• Emotion-focused coping


  Can be positive or negative. Positive examples include talking or writing about their emotions through therapy or journaling, mindful meditation, or distraction with other activities.
• Attitude


  Refers to a set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviors toward a particular object, person, thing, or event. Attitudes are often the result of experience or upbringing, and they can have a powerful influence over behavior. While attitudes are enduring, they can also change.
• Attitude


  Is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterizes a person. They are complex and are an acquired state through experiences.
• Positive attitude


  Means being optimistic about situations, interactions, and yourself. People with positive attitudes can remain hopeful and see the best even in difficult situations. Is a state of mind that envisions and expects favorable results. Is made up of more than thinking and acting in positive ways.
• SMART


  S - SPECIFIC, M - MEASURABLE, A - ACHIEVABLE, R - REALISTIC, T - TIME-BOUND
• Process of self-development


  1. STEP 1 - Creating a vision of yourself

  2. STEP 2 - Setting specific goals

  3. STEP 3 - Identifying action plans

  4. STEP 4 - Evaluating outcomes
• Creating a vision of yourself


  Creating a mental image of what you envision about yourself.
• Setting specific goals


  To help you meet the objective and process allows you to allocate time and energy more efficiently thus promoting better productivity and greater confidence.
• Identifying action plans


  Required to meet the objectives, working out how to evaluate the activity, agreeing a time-frame for action, identifying resources (human, financial and technical), finalizing the plan, and evaluating the results and help to achieve goal.
• Evaluating outcomes


  Assessing your plans and your achievements throughout the process of improving yourself.
• Action plans


  Are simple lists of all of the tasks that you need to finish to meet an objective. They differ from To-Do Lists in that they focus on the achievement of a single goal. Action Plans are useful, because they give you a framework for thinking about how you'll complete a project efficiently.
• Coping


  Means to invest one's own conscious effort, to solve personal and interpersonal problems, in order to try to master, minimize or tolerate stress and conflict. The psychological coping mechanisms are commonly termed coping strategies or coping skills.
• Coping


  Is a type of stress management that attempts to reduce negative emotional responses associated with stress. Other emotion focused coping techniques include: Distraction, e.g. keeping yourself busy to take your mind off the issue.