ppt of life managment

1. Life Management
Hafsa tariq-057
Amna khalid-054
Maida tariq-057

2. Life Management
• Life management refers to the practice of
effectively organizing and prioritizing
various aspects of one's life to achieve
personal and professional goals while
maintaining overall well-being and
balance. It involves making conscious
choices, setting clear objectives, and
adopting strategies to navigate through
life's challenges and opportunities.

3. Importance& role
Achieving Goals: Life management helps
individuals set clear and achievable
goals. By effectively managing time,
resources, and priorities, people can
work towards their objectives with focus
and determination.
Reducing Stress: Effective life
management helps in identifying and
managing sources of stress. By setting
boundaries, prioritizing tasks, and
practicing stress-reduction techniques,
individuals can lead a less stressful life.
Improving Productivity: Life
management techniques, such as time
management and organization, boost
productivity. This allows individuals to
accomplish more in less time and be
more efficient in their daily activities.
Finding Purpose and Meaning: Life
management helps individuals discover
their purpose and passions, guiding
them towards a more meaningful and
fulfilling life.

4. Drift, Drown Or Decide
Approach

5. Drifting
• Drifting in managing life means living
without a clear plan or direction. It's like
going with the flow and letting life take
you wherever it leads, without actively
making choices or setting goals.
• Example: Imagine a person who has just
finished college and is unsure about what
career path to pursue. Instead of taking
time to reflect on their interests and
strengths and making a plan for their
future, they decide to take any job that
comes their way.

6. Drifting in student
life
 Lack of Clear Goals:
 Procrastination:
 Lack of Extracurricular
Involvement
 Inconsistent Attendance:
 Ignoring Career Planning

7. Drowning
• Drowning in managing life means feeling overwhelmed
and struggling to handle all the responsibilities and
challenges that come your way.
• It's like being submerged in responsibilities, stress, or
negative emotions to the point where it becomes difficult
to handle and manage effectively.
• Example:
Imagine a student who is trying to balance schoolwork,
extracurricular activities, a part-time job, and family
obligations. They have so much on their plate that they can't
keep up with everything, and they feel stressed and exhausted
all the time. They might start to miss deadlines, their grades
might suffer, and they may feel emotionally drained. In this
situation, the student is drowning in managing life because
they have taken on too much, and it's becoming too
overwhelming for them to handle.

8. Drowning in student
life
Constant Stress
Declining Academic Performance
Loss of Motivation
Isolation
Neglecting Health and Well-being

9. Deciding
• "Deciding" in managing life refers to taking active control
and making intentional choices about various aspects of
one's life. It involves setting clear goals, making informed
decisions, and taking responsibility for the direction and
outcomes of one's actions.
EXAMPLES:
1. A college student who sets a clear academic goal of
achieving a specific GPA, creates a study schedule, and
seeks tutoring or study groups to excel in their courses.
2. An individual who wants to improve their health decides to
adopt a regular exercise routine, plan nutritious meals, and
seek advice from a nutritionist or fitness trainer.

10. What Do You Really Want From Life?
YOUR LIFETIME
GOALS EXERCISE
HOW TO RESOLVE
GOAL CONFLICTS
HOW TO SET
LIFETIME PRIORITIES
ELIMINATE LOW-
PRIORITY TASKS

11. Control Starts With
Planning
• To create an effective life management
plan, start by reflecting on your values,
aspirations, strengths, and areas for
improvement. Understand what truly
matters to you in different aspects of life.
• Next, set clear and specific goals for
different areas of your life, such as
career, health, relationships, personal
growth, and finances.

12. Cont.
• Use the SMART goal-setting framework to ensure your goals are
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
• Break down larger goals into smaller, actionable steps, making it
easier to track progress and stay focused on one task at a time.
• Prioritize your goals based on their alignment with your life vision and
values.

13. Why You Should Care
About Your Time
• Time management allows us to focus on what truly
matters, enabling us to allocate our efforts and energy to
tasks that align with our and long-term aspirations.
• It helps us avoid distractions and unproductive activities,
making every moment count. By being values mindful of
our time, we can reduce stress and anxiety, as we become
better at handling responsibilities and deadlines.
• y caring about your time and managing it effectively, you
can lead a purposeful and balanced life, making the most of
every opportunity and experiencing greater fulfillment in
both personal and professional pursuits.

14. Cont.
• Time management allows individuals to identify their most important
tasks and focus on activities that align with their goals and values.
• Effective time management improves productivity by reducing wasted
time and avoiding procrastination
• Proper time management reduces stress by helping individuals stay on
top of their responsibilities and deadlines.
• By mastering time management, individuals gain greater control over
their life.

15. Learn To Stress The
Benefits
• "Learn to stress benefits" in life management
refers to developing the ability to focus on the
positive aspects, advantages, and potential gains
in various situations and experiences.
• It involves consciously training your mindset to
look for the silver lining, the learning
opportunities, and the potential rewards even in
challenging or difficult circumstances.
• When you learn to stress benefits in life
management, you shift your attention to the
potential positive outcomes and opportunities
that may arise from the situation.

16. Cont.
• For example, if you face a setback in your career, stressing benefits
would involve looking for the lessons learned, the skills gained, or the
potential for personal growth. It may also lead you to explore new
career paths or opportunities that you might not have considered
before.

17. Create Quiet Time
For Yourself
• "Create quiet time for yourself" means
intentionally setting aside periods of solitude
and silence in your daily life.
• It involves finding moments of peace and calm
where you can disconnect from external
distractions, responsibilities, and noise, and
dedicate time solely to your thoughts,
reflections, and personal well-being.
• During this quiet time, you can engage in
activities like meditation, mindfulness, deep
breathing exercises, journaling, reading, taking a
walk in nature, or simply sitting in silence.

18. Cont.
• Creating quiet time for yourself is a way to prioritize self-care and
mental wellness. It allows you to recharge your energy, gain clarity,
and cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself.
• It's an opportunity to slow down, be present in the moment, and take a
break from the constant stimulation and demands of modern life.
• Creating quiet time for yourself is a conscious choice to nourish your
inner self, find peace amidst the busyness of life, and enhance your
overall life management by fostering a balanced and centered mindset.

19. SOC Model

20. SOC Model
 On a very general level, SOC takes the global view that
at all stages of human development, individuals manage
their lives successfully through three processes of
developmental regulation:
1. Selection (S)
2. Optimization (O)
3. Compensation (C).
 Taking an action-theoretical perspective, selection,
optimization, and compensation refer to processes of
setting, pursuing, and maintaining personal goals.

21. Selection
 The process of defining, elaborating, and committing to
personal goals is referred to as selection.
 Throughout the life span, biological, social, and individual
opportunities and constraints specify a range of alternative
domains of functioning.
 The number of options, usually exceeding the amount of
internal and external resources available to an individual, need
to be reduced by selecting a subset of these domains on which
to focus one’s resources. This is particularly important in old
age, a time in life when resources decline.
 Selection directs development because personal goals guide
and organize behaviour. Successful goal selection requires
individuals to develop and set goals in domains for which
resources are available, and that match a person’s needs and
environmental demands.

22. The SOC model distinguishes between two kinds of
selection, elective selection and loss-based selection.
 Elective selection is the process of defining goals in order to match a person's requirements and
motivations with accessible or attainable resources. The goal of elective selection is to achieve
greater levels of functioning.
 loss-based selection is a response to the loss of previously available resources that are necessary
to maintain functioning. Loss-based selection refers to changes in goals or the goal system, such
as reconstructing one’s goal hierarchy by focusing on the most important goals, adapting
standards, or replacing goals that are no longer achievable.

23. Selection promotes successful aging in a number of
ways.
 To feel committed to goals contributes to feeling that one’s life has a purpose.
 Furthermore, goals help organize behaviour over time and across situations and
guide attention and behaviour.
 One of the central functions of selection is to focus the limited amount of
available resources. In old and very old age, when resources become more
constrained, selection becomes even more important.

24. Optimization
(It means making the most of
your resources and
opportunities )
 For achieving desired outcomes in
selected domains, goal-relevant means
need to be acquired, applied, and refined.
The investment of time and energy in the
acquisition of goal-relevant methods,
modelling successful people, and
practising goal-relevant abilities are all
examples of optimisation.
 Attempting to achieve growth-oriented
goals increases self-efficacy and leads to
happy emotions and better well-being.

25. Cont.
 When losses are common in old age, it may be more important to maintain
growth-related goals for fostering well-being rather than focused solely on losses.
 The Berlin Ageing Study empirically supports the good function of optimisation
in old life. In this study, older persons who reported engaging in optimisation
processes reported more positive feelings and higher ageing satisfaction.

26. Compensation
 How do older people manage to maintain positive functioning in the face
of health-related constraints and losses? Maintaining positive functioning
in the face of losses may be as crucial for successful ageing as focusing
on long-term progress.
 One relevant strategy for the regulation of losses—loss-based selection—
has already been discussed. Loss-based selection refers to the
reorganisation of one's goal system, such as giving up impossible goals
and developing new ones. Developing new goals and investing in their
optimization, however, can also deplete resources.
 Moreover, important personal goals might be central to a person’s well-
being and are difficult to quit in the face of loss. In this situation,
maintaining one's goal by gaining additional resources(such as hearing
aids and glasses) or activating underused internal or external
resources(such as invoking the help of others) for alternate means of
pursuing goals may be more adaptive. This procedure is known as
compensation.

27. Cont..
• Definition: maintenance of functioning by use of alternative means but rather a
change in goals themselves.
 Data from the Berlin Ageing Study, once again, indicate the favourable effect of
compensation in old age—self-reported compensation was associated with
subjective measures of successful ageing (emotional well-being, satisfaction with
ageing, and life satisfaction).

28. Selection, Optimization, and Compensation
Embedded in an Action-Theoretical Framework:

29. References
• https://www.academia.edu/download/737951
5/How to Get Control of Your Time and Your
Life.pdf
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11370
768_Life-
management_strategies_of_selection_optimizati
on_and_compensation_Measurement_by_self-
report_and_construct_validity

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