The document discusses personality development and building good character. It defines personality as one's thoughts, actions, and behavior in different scenarios. Developing good character requires focusing on qualities like self-confidence, positive thinking, learning from failures, self-reliance, and selfless service. It also emphasizes the importance of goal setting, time management, communication skills, and leadership qualities. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through exercise, diet, yoga, meditation, and managing one's thoughts is also discussed as pivotal to personality development.

1. Manavata.org 1

2. Take a moment to ask yourself:
Who are you?
How well do you know yourself?
What are you good at?
What are your weaknesses, fears,
innermost strengths and desires?
Where are you headed?
Manavata.org 2

3. What is Personality?
• Thoughts
• Actions
• Behavior
Character or behavior of a person in different scenarios can be
called as personality
Character: Good character is defined in terms of one's actions. Character
development traditionally has focused on those traits or values
appropriate for the industrial age such as obedience to authority, work
ethic, working in group under supervision, etc.
How character builds up?
•Impressions in the mind (inputs)
•Thoughts (process)
•Actions (output)
Manavata.org 3

4. What makes good personality?
•Self Confidence
•Positive Thinking
•Learning from failures
•Self reliance
•Selfless service
Approach for good personality
•Goal Setting
•Time Management
•Communication skills
•Leadership Qualities
Manavata.org 4

5. Goal Setting:
 Immediate
 Short term
 Long term
Great people voice on Goal setting?
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-- Henry Ford
"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Eliot
"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."
-- Billy Sunday
Manavata.org 5

6. Time Management:
 Importance of Duty
 Plan / schedule preparation (day plan and etc.)
 Making good friends
 Utilizing time for Knowledge Improvement
(reading of good books / group discussions / knowledge sharing)
 Utilizing free time for good hobbies
 Making good food habits
 Work for others
(Giving proper guidance to next generation,..)
Great people voice on Time Management?
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
-- Michael Althsuler
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different
times."
-- Baltasar Gracian
"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
-- Brian Tracy
"Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas.
But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance."
-- Stephen Covey
Manavata.org 6

7. Communication skills:
Communication is very important to every one as they are in the
threshold of entering into a very competitive corporate world.
Communication is an art and it cannot be cultivated over night. Without
this skill a pupil might not ever climb the success ladder in their lives.
 Tips for improving communication
 How to communicate in better way
 Different levels of communication
 Developing language
 Developing writing skills
Manavata.org 7

8. Leadership qualities:
 Planning
 (People won’t fail, they fail to plan)
 Self discipline
 Know your Responsibilities
 Commitment
 Developing Skills
 Organizing things properly
 Self Motivation and motivating people
 Optimum utilization of time
 Help others
Manavata.org 8

9. Health & food habits:
 Regular exercise
 Timely food & Proper diet
 Cleanliness
 Drinking more water
 How to take care of inner parts of body
Yoga & Meditation:
 How Yoga helps to build good character / personality?
 Astanga Yoga
 How Yoga helps to physical and mental health
 Difference between physical exercise and Yoga
 Pranayama (breathing exercise)
 Meditation for improving concentration & memory power
Tuning of mind:
 Analyzing thoughts & thought process
 Filtering thoughts
 Controlling senses
 Purifying & filtering Impressions in the mind
Manavata.org 9

10. Manavata.org 10

11. Manavata.org 11

12. Manavata.org 12

13. Viswa Samstha
Reg.No. 3417/01
Viswa Manavata Samsta
Service to Man is Service to God
HO: Hydearbad, India
Email: info@manavata.org
Manavata.org 13