Self Management Skills Class 9

Questions and Answers

Session 1: Introduction to Self –
Management
1. What do you mean by self – management
skills?
Answer – Your ability to regulate and control your actions, feelings, and
thoughts is referred to as self-management skills. It also helps to improve
personal and academic goals.

Self-management can also helps in the following areas:-

 Reaching your goals

 Developing good habits
 Overcoming challenges and difficulties
 Overcoming bad habits
2. What are the different practices of self
management skills?
Answer – Self – management skills are –

 Self – awareness – Ability to control your values, likes, strengths,

dislikes and weaknesses, etc.
 Self – control – Holding the ability to control your behavior, discipline,
and so on.
 Self – confidence – Believe in yourself and don’t be scared to take
risks.
 Problem solving – Understanding a problem and finding the solution.
 Self motivation – Try to complete your tasks without any external help.
 Personal hygiene – Be healthy, clean and smart
 Positive thinking – Expressing certainty or affirmation even in tough
situations
 Teamwork – Work in team to complete the goals
 Time management – According to your plan, achieve the task on time.
 Goal setting – Plan and accomplish the goals within a timeframe.
3. Write a short note on the factors influencing
self – management.
Answer – Factors influencing the self – management are patients, cognitive,
mental, and behavioral ability to identify disease – related symptoms, seek
treatment, and to identify physical, psychological and social changes.

Session 2: Strength and weakness analysis

4. Self – management skills strengths and
weaknesses?
Answer – Self – management skills strengths and weaknesses –

Strengths –

Think that you are always good at

Think about what you do well
Think about what others appreciate about you
Weaknesses –

 Identify the areas where you struggle and what you find difficult to do
 Accept the feedback you receive from others
 Be positive with feedback and try to improve yourself.
5. Difference between interests and abilities?
Answer – Interests are the things that we enjoy doing ability acquired or
natural capacity that enable an individual to perform a particular task with
considerable proficiency.

Interest may include –

 Activities you like most to do at school or at home that make you happy.
 Even if no one asks you to do the activity but you want to do it.
 Activities that you like to learn or do in the future.
Session 3: Self – confidence
6. Qualities of self – confidence?
Answer – Qualities of self – confident people –

 Self – belief – Always believe in yourself and respect the failures, make
you successful in life.
 Hard Work – Work hard to achieve the goal, don’t be afraid of failures.
 Positive Attitude – Positive attitude means focusing on the goal and
trying to achieve.
7. How to build self – confidence?
Answer – There are three steps to build self – confidence are as follows –

 Step 1: Appreciate achievements & accept failures.

 Step 2: Make a goal and try to achieve.
 Step 3: Always look on the positive side and be happy.
8. What are the factors that decrease self –
confidence?
Answer – Some of the factors which decrease self – confidence

 When we think we are unable to complete a task.

 When you feel bad from the past mistakes, and unmotivated.
 After failure in the first attempt, do not try again to achieve the goal.
 When we are surrounded by people who have negative thoughts.
Session 4: Positive Thinking
9. What is the importance of positive thinking?
Answer – An person’ attitude can be ‘positive’ or ‘negative’. Positive thinking
helps to be successful in life because positive people are always improving
themselves. but negative people are always worrying and looking for the bad
in things, they never try to overcome the challenges.

Positive thinking produces positive outcomes for you, such as

 Overcoming challenges
 Always be energetic
 Helping others will help you to overcome the challenge of the work.
 Be happy and make others happy.
Session 5: Personal Hygiene
10. What is the importance of personal
hygiene?
Answer – Personal hygiene is very important in our daily life because it helps
us

 Create a good image of ourselves

 Stay healthy
 Avoid feeling ashamed in public due to our bad breath, body odour, etc.
Session 6: Grooming
11. What is the importance of Grooming?
Answer – The act of putting on clothes is known as dressing. Grooming is the
act of making oneself appear neat, orderly, and smart.

Benefits of Dressing and grooming in daily life

 Look smart
 Make a good impression of ourselves
 Feel confident about ourselves
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What is self management skills for Class 9?

Ability to control your actions and regulate your self is known as self
management skills, It also help to achieve your personal and academic goal.

Why is self management important for us

Class 9?
Self-management can also helps in the following areas:-
a. Achieving your goals
b. Adapting good habits
c. Overcoming from the difficulties
d. Overcoming from the bad habits

What is grooming class 9?

Wearing is clothes is known as dressing. Grooming helps to make your self
neat, clean and smart.

What is the purpose of self management

explain?
Purpose of Self-management skills are – Self Awareness, Self Control, Self
Confidence, Problem Solving and Self motivated.

Notes

Session 1: Introduction to Self-management

Self Management
It is a way of understanding yourself, your interest, abilities and how to keep a positive
attitude in difficult situations.

Benefits of Self Management skills

• It helps to develop good habits
• Also helps in overcoming bad habits
• Gives motivation to achieve goals in life
• Helps in overcoming in difficult situations

How to manage yourself?

Self Management Skills includes:
Self-awareness- Know about yourself
Self-control- Ability to control your behaviour
Self-confidence- Be confident you can achieve anything
Problem-solving- Try to find the solution to problems in your life
Self-motivation- Keep your self-motivation high
Personal Hygiene- Keep yourself clean, smart and healthy
Positive Thinking- Think Everything will be fine
Team Work- Support your team members in the work
Time Management- Complete task on time
Goal Setting- Make a goal. what do you want to achieve?

Session 2: Strength and Weakness Analysis

Strength and weakness are two mains things once you learn about it in your life then life
becomes easy. Try to find out what are you good at and what is your weakness. this session
will help you to understand all these concepts.
Knowing Yourself
It means knowing about yourself truly. There are many things hidden by yourself in front of
others and only you can know about yourself. This will help you to live a happy life. Try to
find out who you are, your likes-dislikes and many other things.

Strength and weakness analysis

Strength: The fields in which you are good.
Weakness: The areas in which you are not good and needs improvement.

How to identify strengths?

• Check what you can do very well
• Think of things in which your performance is always good
• Try to find out in what works you are appreciated

Identifying weaknesses
• Find out the areas in which you are not good and having difficulties doing that task
• Analyse the feedback you receive from others
• Accept your weakness and try to improve

Difference between interests and abilities

Most of the times it is mixed that interest and ability both are same. Interest is something
different.

Interest:
• Things which you like to do in your free times and which makes you feel happy
• These are the things which you do even no one asked you to do it
• The things which you want to learn in future

Ability:
• It is a natural capacity or acquired capacity that forces a person to do a particular thing.
• We see that sometimes interest and ability match and sometimes not.
• For example- You like to play football but you don't have the skill or the required strength to
play it
Session 3: Self-confidence
Self Confidence
Self-confidence is a sense of trusting in ourselves, trusting in our own ability and strengths. If
a person lacks self-confidence he cannot achieve his goals. self-confidence is very
necessary to achieve your target. It motivates you to do things in a good manner. It is a
quality of believing in our strength and have feelings that we can do anything.

Qualities of self-confident people

Self believe: They believe that they can do anything
Hard Work: They are hard-working people
Positive Attitude: They have a positive attitude towards a situation
Commitment: What to achieve in life is clear in them

How to Build Self Confidence?

Step 1: First of all appreciate your achievements. What you get in your life enjoy it and
accept the failure. Don't be demotivated by your failure

Step 2: Make sure you make a goal and start your preparation for that. take necessary steps
to achieve the goal

Step 3: Try to look at the good side. All things have good and bad side try to see the good
part in it and be happy.

Some factors which decrease self-confidence

• Negative thinking that I cannot do that thing
• When you only think about that mistakes made in past and don't learn from the mistakes
• Sometimes we think that success comes in the first attempt and never try again
• Be in a negative environment where people demotivates you and make you feel that you
cannot do it
Session 4: Positive Thinking
Positive thinking and its importance
A person's attitude is very important to complete any task. A person can have a 'positive' or
'negative' attitude in various circumstances. A positive attitude leads to giving good result.
Positive thinking people look at good things and tries to improve them whereas negative
thinking people see negative aspects of it and only worries about it without trying to improve
it.

Positive thinking leads to good results like

• It helps to overcome challenges
• Gives you the energy to do well
• It helps to get better results at work
• Creates a happy environment around you

How to keep your thinking positive?

• Start your day in a positive way by prayer to god or by doing something which makes you
happy
• Manage some time to relax yourself
• Try to find good things even if you are in a bad situation
• Take feedback in a positive way
• Be thankful for good things that you have

Session 5: Personal Hygiene

Personal Hygiene is the thing that should not be ignored. It is a habit to keep yourself clean.
it helps to maintain good health. You should keep your body clean to avoid health issues.

Why personal Hygiene is Important?

• It helps you to be healthy
• Represents a good image of yourself
• It also avoids the feeling ashamed due to bad body smelling etc

Three steps to personal hygiene

Care: Take care of your body. Cut your nails in every week
Wash: Wash your hands frequently and take bath daily
Avoid: Avoid dirty clothes

Session 6: Grooming
The dressing is the thing which all of us do. Wearing a neat and clean dress gives us
confidence. The way a person dress and groom gives a message about his confidence and
smartness.

Why dressing and grooming are important?

• First of all, you look smart
• Feel confident about yourself
• It makes a good impression of yourself among others

Guidelines for dressing and grooming

Clothes: Your clothes should be neat and clean. Shoes should be polished
Hair: Hair should be washed regularly and keep a simple style
Face: Teeth should be clean. If you have a moustache and beards keep a style that suits on
your face