1. self management..an introduction

Self Management
An Introduction
1. Introduction to self management
Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid
(mriazhamid@yahoo.com) Cell: +923008310830

Self Management
1. The man who cannot manage
himself, Is not able to lead
others…. W. Penn
2. Only one who has learned to
control himself, can easily learn to
manage the state... Confucius

Definition
Self-management means different things in different
fields. In business, education, and psychology:
“Self-management refers to methods, skills, and
strategies by which individuals can effectively
direct their own activities toward the
achievement of objectives, and includes goal
setting, decision making, focusing, planning,
scheduling, task tracking, self-evaluation, self-
intervention, self-development, etc”.

Importance
Why is self-management important for student?
Self-management is vital to be a successful student.
It is quite common that students drop-out of university 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. Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

Strategies of Self
management
There are four basic strategies:
1. Goal setting
2. Action Planning
3. Tracking Change
4. Problem-Solving).
These can be applied to any thing you want to
accomplish – from university degree to finding
a better job. Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

Strategies cont’d…
1. Goal Setting:
Most people do better with self-management if
they have positive goals to motivate them, like
ways they want their lives and health to
improve.
Change is hard, and we need reasons to do it.
Goal can be about physical fitness, like
walking a certain distance, or that can be about
your study. That can be anything you want.

2. Action Planning:
Breaking large goals into achievable
chunks.
Action planning; identifies small, specific
steps to ward larger goals, and strategies to
succeed at those steps.
The key is to make the plans specific -
what, when, where, with whom, how often.

3. Tracking Changes:
If you’re trying to make a change in your life,
how will you know when you have done it?
We tend to forget what we have done or how
we have changed over time. How do we
remember the way things used to be?
It helps to keep a record of your activities.
These records (or logs) will help you see what’s
working and what’s need to change.

4. Problem Solving:
Life has a way of interfering with self-
management.
Usually people encounter some
barriers they didn't expect when they
made their plans.

Rules for self-management
1. Live by your values, whatever they are. You
confuse people when you don’t, because they can’t
predict how you’ll behave.
2. Speak up! No one can “hear” what you’re thinking
without you be willing to stand up for it. Mind-
reading is something most people can’t do.
3. Honor your own good word, and keep the
promises you make. If not, people eventually stop
believing most of what you say, and your words
will no longer work for you. Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

4. When you ask for more responsibility,
expect to be held fully accountable.
5. Don’t expect people to trust you if
you aren’t willing to be trustworthy
for them first and foremost. Trust is
an outcome of fulfilled expectations.

6. Be more productive by creating good habits and
rejecting bad ones. Good habits corral your
energies into a momentum-building rhythm for
you; bad habits sap your energies and drain
you.
7.Have a good work ethic, for it seems to be getting
rare today. Curious, for those “old-fashioned”
values like dependability, timeliness,
professionalism and diligence are prized more
than ever before. Be action-oriented. Seek to
make things work. Be willing to do what it takes

8. Be interesting. Listen to learn, then teach
and share everything you know. No one
owes you their attention; you have to
earn it and keep attracting it.
9. Be nice. Be courteous, polite and
respectful. Be considerate. Manners still
count in life.

10. Be self-disciplined. That’s what
adults are supposed to “grow up” to
be.
11. Don’t be a victim or a martyr. You
always have a choice, so don’t shy
from it: Choose and choose without
regret. Look forward and be
enthusiastic. Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

12. Keep healthy and take care of
yourself.
Exercise your mind, body and
spirit so you can be someone
people count on, and so you can
live expansively and with
abundance. Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

Conclusion:
Managers don’t really need to manage
people who live by these rules; instead,
they can devote their attentions to manage
the businesses in which they all thrive.
Where these rules are followed; great
leaders are found there… Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

Techniques
As a student some practical techniques you can adopt are:
1. Learn how to project your professional image
2. Learn to manage your time better
3. Learn how to balance study-work-personal
life
4. Learn to cope with stress
5. Learn how to prepare for exam
6. Learn how to make university life better
7. Be specific and learn what you ought to
achieve from university life Self Management by Muhammad Riaz Hamid

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