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We organise our daily activities. We prioritise our activities by creating a to-do list and ranking them accordingly.
We prioritise vital tasks over time-wasting activities such as phone conversations and social media. We identify
and record where we have spent our time. This allows us to assess the effectiveness of our time management.
¾ Analysing your strengths and weaknesses is helpful.
¾ An analysis of strengths and weaknesses begins with knowing and understanding yourself first.
¾ Values are the principles or standards of action; your own judgment about what is important in your
life.
¾ Knowing ‘yourself’ means you understand who you are, what you like or do not like, what your beliefs
or opinions are, what is your background, what you are good or bad at.
¾ Strength or ability is what you do well and are good at.
¾ Weakness, also known as "area for improvement" is what you don't do well and what you're not good
at.
¾ Grooming is the process of giving oneself a neat, orderly and clean appearance.
¾ The way you dress and groom can send a message that you are a confident and smart person.
¾ Personal hygiene is the habit or practice of keeping clean.
¾ Cleanliness helps us maintain our health and spirit.
¾ A team is a group of people who work together to achieve a common goal.
¾ Networking means getting to know people, staying in touch over time and using knowledge or skills
to help each other.
¾ Self-motivation is what drives us to achieve our goals, makes us feel happy and improve the quality of
our lives.
¾ Goals are a set of dreams with an achievable deadline.
¾ Goal setting is finding and listing your goals and then planning how to achieve them.
¾ Time management is the ability to plan and control how you spend your time well and do whatever
you want.
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