This document discusses various psychological attributes of personality including personal discipline, self-awareness, self-esteem, attitude awareness, creative thinking, innate love for people, and self-confidence. For personal discipline, it emphasizes the importance of planning, prioritizing tasks, minimizing distractions, and developing time management systems. For self-awareness, it stresses the importance of understanding oneself and getting feedback from others. It also discusses maintaining a positive outlook through accepting strengths and weaknesses and focusing on everyday pleasures.

1. Psychological Attributes
of Personality

2. Psychological Attributes
• Personal Discipline
• Self-awareness
• Self-esteem
• Attitude awareness
• Creative thinking
• Innate love for people
• Self-confidence

3. Psychological Attributes
• Personal Discipline
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4. Personal Discipline
• Do first the chores that you feel are the
most important.
• Schedule tasks by jotting them down on
“post it” then stick each note on a calendar
• Get outside the house at least twice a day.
• Don’t over prepare.

5. Personal Discipline
• Minimize distractions
• Create a simple time-saving system around
your home.
• Simplify your shopping
• Go to work or to an appointment five
minutes early.

6. Personal Discipline
• Streamline your schedule
• Relax
Relaxation will not remove fear, nor will it
remove anxiety but it does remove the
tension arising from both.

7. Personal Discipline
• Time Management
The effectiveness use of time can be
achieved by identifying priorities.
Time is what one’s life is made of.

8. Personal Discipline
• Great Achievers are Great Planners
1.Organize Activities
2.Sort out the unimportant from the
important
3.Invest time in productive and meaningful
efforts

9. Personal Discipline
• Self-management, planning and developing
a system in relation to time are the secrets
of getting things done.

10. Personal Discipline
• At the close of each day, write down the
five most important things you plan to do
the following day.
• Start working on the most important things
down to the 5th priority.
• If only three are accomplished, the 4th and
5th will be the next priorities on the next
day.

11. Personal Discipline
• Do not be upset if you do not accomplish all
the five things.
• The next day, list again the five unfinished
things and do first the most unpleasant
tone.
• Your day will become most enjoyable as it
goes along.

12. Personal Discipline
• Personal Discipline is important in terms of
time, personal habits, will power and
emotional stresses.
• These can streamline the direction of one’s
life.
• Wasting these personal resources is by far
worse than committing omissions.

13. Personal Discipline
• There is growth and strength from one’s
weaknesses if they are turned to useful
assets.
• Accepting weaknesses and handicaps serve
as the baseline data for building one’s
personal effectiveness and confidence.

14. Personal Discipline
• People need to grow within the constraint
of their external and internal resources.
• One can plan and be determined about the
plan.

15. Self-awareness
• Self-awareness is defined as “the degree of
clarity with which we perceive and
understand, both consciously and
unconsciously, all the factors that affect our
lives.

16. Self-awareness
• Knowing and understanding one self is the
first important step to one’s growth and
development as a person.
• It is an endless exploration which may go on
and on through out one’s life.

17. Self-awareness
• “Know thyself.” – Socrates
• Once one comes face to face with himself,
one can do something about his limitations.

18. Self-awareness
• Self-discovery is the beginning step toward
growth and change.
• The change and growth should signal the
directions where one is going.

19. Self-awareness
• The way we reveal ourselves to others is the
way others will respond to us.
• How we see ourselves and how others see
us are the two different things.

20. Self-awareness
• Being able to look at oneself realistically is
the beginning step in self-awareness and it
is basic to self-understanding as well as our
understanding of others.

21. Self-awareness
• Getting feedback from others gives the
opportunity to increase one’s awareness of
oneself to determine the consequences on
one’s behavior and to change his own
behavior if necessary.

22. Self-awareness
• Responsible feedback is given and received
from very close and trusted friends and
given to us out of genuine concern.
• Feedback can either be positive or negative
or neutral.

23. Self-awareness
• Positive feedback is given less frequently
while negative feedback is difficult to give
and to receive.
• However, both can be very useful and
constructive if one has an open mind and a
positive attitude to make them work to
one’s advantage.

24. Self-awareness
• If one knows, he is accepted, he feels safe.
• He can throw away his defenses and his
masks, remove his facade and relax, and be
just his true self.
• He can develop sincere relationships with
others and open his door towards personal
growth.

25. Self-esteem
• Self-esteem is absolutely essential to
personal happiness and a rich life.
• It is a sense of adequacy and personal self-
worth.
• It indicates how one actually feels about
himself.

26. Self-esteem
• Genuine and lasting inner peace and
happiness are only possible to the degree
that we accept and feel good about
ourselves, in spite of our human mistakes
and problems.

27. Self-esteem
• The degree that we acknowledge our
unique importance and attend to our own
basic needs enables us to concern ourselves
with the needs and problems of others, to
be genuinely warm and loving, and to be
truly understanding and compassionate.

28. Attitude Awareness
• Attitudes can give new dimensions to one’s
thinking.
• A healthy mind is the outcome of positive
attitudes.
• It accelerates fulfillment in one’s life.

29. Attitude Awareness
• Negative attitudes are “resistors” which
hold us back, retard effectiveness, and
cause others to respond negatively toward
us.

30. Attitude Awareness
• By developing good positive attitudes one
will experience changes in one’s feelings
and physical well-being.
• A new plateau of achievements will be
gained, and ability to get favorable
responses from people will be enhanced.

31. Attitude Awareness
• Life will flow effortlessly with minimum
frustrations and strain.

32. Attitude Awareness
• Happiness, according to Rubin, is the feeling
that makes life truly worthwhile.
* at peace with oneself
* feeling comfortable
* enjoying self-acceptance
* being tension-free

33. Attitude Awareness
• Rubin also stated that happiness breeds in
the atmosphere of plain everyday life and is
nurtured by the ordinary rather that the
glorious.

34. Attitude Awareness
• There are times when all of us need
compassion, tenderness and love from one
another to stir up our own dormant self-
compassion and love of self, both of which
are necessary in order to be happy.

35. Ways to Achieve a Positive Outlook
1. Remember the truth that life is tough.
Justice is good but rare. High expectations
of any kind will lead to disappointment an
unhappiness.
2. Learn to accept your human assets as well
as your human liabilities.
3. Learn to recognize self-hate both inside
and outside yourself.

36. Ways to Achieve a Positive Outlook
4. Make maximum use of compassion in
accepting all aspects of yourself so that
you can attain happiness.
5. Remember that happiness is everyday
living. “Feeling good” is what happiness is
all about. It is found in eating, exercising,
breathing, seeing, loving and talking.

37. Ways to Achieve a Positive Outlook
6. Believe in yourself. Stop thoughts that are
self-doubting and belittling. Recall past
successes.
7. Trust yourself. Listen to your intuition and
follow your hunches.

38. Ways to Achieve a Positive Outlook
8. Schedule “fun” time and “alone” time.
9. Make a list of things you like and those you
don’t like.
10. Meditate, exercise and pray often.

39. Creative Thinking
• Ninety percent of our original ideas die
upon conception.
• Ten percent become somewhat developed.
• Half of the 10% see the light of day.
• This is because we find it difficult to believe
that we can have what we want in life.

40. Creative Thinking
• What we wish for and what we expect must
be combined.
• What you want and what you get are two
different things.
• The only reality is that we believe in what
we will become.

41. Innate love for People
• Factors that lower efficiency in a company:
* discouragement
* demoralization
* monotony
* dissatisfaction
* irritations
* detractions
* unappreciated efforts

42. Innate love for People
• Factors that can spell the difference
between success and failure of the
company:
* love
* respect for the right of others
* continuous regard for the welfare of
others

43. Innate love for People
• One can help others grow by:
* giving praise and encouragement
* being tolerant
* listening to them
* understanding them
* sharing with them
* helping them dream
* dismissing their blunders and mistakes
* giving them your sincere love

44. Innate love for People
• Trust and respect are two prime
ingredients in any invitation to
grow.

45. Self-confidence
• Competence in the job and self-confidence
go hand in hand.
• Confidence in one’s work can be achieved
by doing the following:
1.Dare try to succeed.
2. Transform self-consciousness to self-
confidence.

46. Self-confidence
3. Strive toward mental relaxation.
4. Respond to the needs of others.
5. Have confidence in your values.
6. Learn to listen.
7. Be a doer instead of a sitter.
8. Be quick to compliment and be slow to
criticize.

47. Ways of Improving Personality
1. Treat other people as very important
persons.
2. Continuously grow, change and develop.
3. Be time-conscious.
4. Have self-confidence.