Self-Management can simply be described as a set of skills,
strategies and tactics that can be used to achieve the desired
personal and professional outcomes. This book provides an approach
for self-management that can well be summarized as a
'Focus-Analyze-Alter'. In order to achieve any desired outcome, you
must set the right objectives and keep focus on them. Once you know
your destination, it's time to find the right path to your
destination. You can find this path by analyzing Goal setting and
identifying objectives, personal or professional, is central to our
existence. However, fulfillment of the same often remains
questionable. Self-management is a set of strategies that can be
highly instrumental in helping you set the right goals and work in
an organized and decisive manner towards fulfilling the same.
Organization, in this context, includes several facets like
management of time and resources to facilitate a smooth and focused
path to success. It cannot make your path to success shorter, but
it can surely make it easier. Decision making and choosing the
right options is integral to effective management. This facet can
certainly shorten your path to success. With decision-making comes
inevitable stress, which can lead you to uncertainty and
indecisiveness. This makes it essential to manage this stress,
frustration and anger, which may arise as an outcome of the
aforementioned. Therefore, self-management has been identified as a
smart balance of resource management, time management and personal
management. This book gives you an insight on the three main
aspects of self-management namely, time management, life management
and personal management. Self-Understanding the criticality of time
management in our daily lives, a task-based approach for the
effective administration has been provided. Besides this, the
different facets of life personal management, like self-confidence,
anger and stress have been considered. Environmental factors also
have a significant role in self-management. The approach for
self-management that has been followed, described and prescribed in
this book is based on the thought "You are your biggest help " The
book suggests strategies and techniques that can be implemented at
a personal level without interference or intervention of a third
party. This helps you in more than one way. This works towards
building a positive attitude and energy in your life. This
positivity will motivate you to change yourself for better. Once
you are able to observe positive outcomes, you will be encouraged,
and this is a key motivator. Secondly, the human psyche is such
that we tend not to do things that we are asked to do. This book
works on a two phase basis, preparation phase and implementation
phase. The chapters on 'Building Self-Confidence and Courage' and
'Developing a Positive Attitude' work towards building a belief in
you that you can break this chain and become a pioneer of change in
your life. This is a preparation phase, which mentally prepares you
for a change. The rest of the chapters suggest real life
implementations that can bring about the required change. The
chapter on 'Plan and Organize' suggests techniques that can help
you in organizing your resources while the chapters on 'Time
management' and 'Anger and Stress Management' provides suggestions
for management of time and personality respectively. Any
'do-it-yourself' approach is incomplete without discussing the
pitfalls that you may face in your path to successful
implementation. Although, every human is different, and so are
their responses. We have a knack of making unique mistakes and
falling into the same trap in unique different ways. The chapter on
'Common Mistakes' warns you of the traps to ensure speedy
implementation of the suggested techniques. This book provides a
comprehensive approach towards overall management and improvement.
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