Centre for personal effectiveness

Knowledge – your previous learning experience influence your current learning
Interest - your interest is on off switch for your attention
Skills – learned study skills enhance your output
Smart – combination of the above three is you’re your smart habit

You know what is smart

S – Study – there is no short cut you have to study
M – Motivate your self – self-motivation always you need for continuous
A - Achieve something – from the above step you achieve something
R - Reward yourself- because you achieve something
T – Trust you- now you believe your ability which will motivate you to study

Ingredient for meaningful learning

Purpose- goal
Values – moral system
Personal responsibility
Ability believe
Inspiration – other person or source
Motivation - persistence

Set your sail learn, relearn happy journey

Stress and Personal development

2009-01-13T04:07:00.000-08:00

Patience with self is hope
Patience with others is love
Patience with god is faith
-Anonymous

How we relate to ourselves and others is very important for our personal development. Stress may help or hinder for our development. The following basic areas remain to be checked otherwise it will be our source of stress. These three step process
3 ‘A’
Accept,
Aware,
Act,

help you to understand where you have to focus for your personal development.

Now you can take necessary action.

Strategies to improve your learning and performance

2009-01-03T21:57:00.000-08:00

There is just a thin line between your performance and stress. Same task or situation can be viewed as stress or opportunity for learning. The following strategies you need to check to improve your learning and performance.
1. Avoidance
If you feel incompetent you probably seek to escape from it. Avoidance will prevent you from learning new skills. Learning require active effort, it is natural we feel incompetent before mastering any task or skills. To master a task or skill first you take it as challenge and focus your mind on the process but not the end result.
2. Believe
Success or failure mostly result of our attitude but not depends on our ability. You know we have unlimited potential. Our belief becomes our attitude, feelings and our action. Identify your self created limiting believes and challenge them.
3. Comparison
Every one is unique. Comparison creates negative impact on your learning and performance. You can compare yourself with your own progress, it will motivate you. But don’t compare yourself with others negatively.
4. Distraction
Our worries, anxiety and external events distract us. Distraction decreases our concentration and focus. Identify your distraction and minimize it.
5. Effort
If you are willing to spare your time and energy you can reach your goal. Set priority, keep your focus, do it with commitment and motivate yourself.
6. Feel it and Fix it
Knowing is not enough to achieve something. You must feel the importance of what you are doing, create meaning, and contemplate mindfully. Aware of your own chronic mistakes and failures find out the reason and challenge them.

For your personal development

2008-12-29T05:57:00.000-08:00

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle

check your 3'D'

Desire - purpose, goal need that motivates you
Dream - your imagination, fantacy, day dreaming
Dread - fear that motivates you or switch off your functioning

These three functionings of our mind are our best friend and worst enemy. check is it helpful or unhelpful and is it realistic or unrealistic.

again and again

2008-12-15T16:38:00.000-08:00

once I read this following somewhere. I like it to read again and again

This is it

There are no hidden meanings

You can not get there from here, and besides there’s no place to go

We are already dying

Nothing lasts

There is no way of getting all you want

You can’t anything unless you let go of it

There is no particular reason why you lost out on something

The world is not necessarily just

Being good often does not pay off and there is no compensation for misfortune

It is a random universe to which we bring meaning (because we are the ones looking for one)

You don’t real control any thing

You can’t make any one love you

No one is stronger or weaker than any one else

Every one is in his way vulnerable

There are no great men.

If you have hero look again you have diminished in someway.

Everyone lies cheats and pretends (I myself)

All evil is potential vitality in need of transformation.

All of you are worth something if you own it.

Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all problems can breed new problems.

Childhood is a nightmare.

But it is so very hard to be on your own take care of yourself, cause of yourself- cause there is no one else to do it for you grown-up.

Each of us is ultimately ‘alone’.

The most important things each man must do for himself love is not enough, but it sure helps.

We have only one another and ourselves, that may not be much, but that’s all there is.

How strange, that so often it all seems worth it.

We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom partial power and partial knowledge.

All-important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.

Yet we are responsible for every thing we do

No excuses will be accepted

You can run but not hide

We must learn the power of living with out helplessness

The only victory lies in surrender to oneself

All of the significant battles are waged within the self

You are free to do whatever you like; you need only face the consequences

What do you know…for sure…any way?

Learn to forgive, yourself again and again and again….

Learning

2008-12-12T16:11:00.000-08:00

Learning something is not easy

Your path for most effective learning is through knowing the following

Check your 5CA
• Curiosity level
• Concept of self
• Competency
• Co-operation
• Confidence, courage • Action

1. Readiness
 Physical- (food, rest)
 Psychological-
• Attitudes (i.e., sentiments toward the learning community and the target language)
• Beliefs about self (i.e., expectancies about one's attitudes to succeed, self-efficacy, and anxiety)
• Involvement (i.e., extent to which the learner actively and consciously participates in the language learning process)
• Environmental support (i.e., extent of teacher and peer support, and the integration of cultural and outside-of-class support into learning experience)
 Intellectual – (previous learning)
• Personal attributes (i.e., aptitude, age, sex, and previous language learning experience).

2. Motivation –
 Types; -internal, external rewards
 Failure syndromes, learned helplessness
 Low frustration tolerance
 Avoidance
 Inhibition
 Adult dependency
 Low self-concept
 Goals (perceived clarity and relevance of learning goals as reasons for learning)
 Be realistic
 Set your own goal
 Give feedback
 Reward yourself

3.Practice
• Regular reading habits
• Review
• Prepare for the exam

Life long learning

2008-12-10T05:55:00.000-08:00

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."-Buddha

Personal effectiveness is life long need for everyone. This blog is going to share ideas about developing personal effectiveness.