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•  Your background and past experience will shape your decision in future.
              •  Your opinions about yourself will shape your personality and will give you clarity and understanding about your life.
              •  Your likes and dislikes will help you prioritize your activities and will keep you emotionally healthy.
              •  Your values that persuade your choices you make in life.

              Strength and Weakness
              Strength is a positive trait that enhances your knowledge, skills, talent and brings confidence in what you do. They
              are the talents and abilities that uniquely identifies you. It helps you believe in your capabilities and use them
              efficiently to achieve your goals.
              Weakness is a negative trait that brings unhappiness and sometimes pulls away from the path of success in life. It
              is also sometimes associated with pain, trauma, and negative emotions.

              Knowing about your strengths and weakness will help you:
              •  Understand what you can do and what is difficult for you.
              •  To work on turning your weakness into your strength.
              •  To gain confidence and achieve your goals in life.



                            Task


                   Answer the following questions:
                   1.  What are your top four qualities or strengths? List them.
                   2.  How do you use them in your school life?
                   3.  Your one strength which you used recently to get good grades in your project.
                   4.  Which negative trait in you gives you pain and disturbs you mentally? (Any three)


              Difference between Interests and Abilities
              Interest is something you prefer to do and you enjoy doing it. It provides you a direction to develop your habits
              and skills. If you are interested in anything then motivation comes automatically. On your own you will put extra
              time and efforts to complete an assigned task. Learning what you enjoy will help you develop your skills in it
              so that you can pursue it as a career in future. You may be good at playing guitar so give more time to it, enjoy
              exploring it and may pursue it as a career in future.
              Ability comes naturally without any effort. It is your talent that you acquire naturally. It is a key for your happiness
              in life. It enables you to do a particular task efficiently with full confidence and good results.


              Self-Motivation
              Self-motivation is the force that drives you to do things to achieve your goals. It is a life skill and must be necessarily
              developed to keep you going even in the times of set-backs and look for new opportunities in every move of life.
              Self-motivation helps you:
              •  Push yourself to face the challenges of life.
              •  Survive the tough competition in personal and professional life.
              •  By giving you happiness.
              •  By improving your quality of life.
              •  To withstand setbacks and grow as an individual.
              •  To believe in yourself and convince yourself to do things as and when put to you.
              Shristi wakes up at 4 am in the morning to practice for badminton. Her father takes her for coaching in the morning
              from 4 to 6:30 am then from there she changes for school and reaches school at 7:30 am.
              After school she goes back straight home and no outings with friends as she has to do her homework and cope


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