Unit 2: Self Management Skills - Vocabulary Flashcards

A comprehensive vocabulary flashcard set covering concepts, definitions, and key examples from Unit 2: Self Management Skills.

Self-management skills

The ability to regulate and control your actions, feelings, and thoughts, which helps to improve personal and academic goals.

Self-awareness

The ability to understand and control your values, likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and shortcomings as an individual.

Self-control

Holding the ability to control your behavior, discipline, emotions, and thoughts effectively in different situations.

Self-confidence

Believing in yourself and your abilities without being scared of taking risks.

Problem solving

Understanding a problem and finding the appropriate solution.

Self-motivation

The drive to complete tasks and put effort into self-development without requiring external help.

Personal hygiene

The practice of staying healthy, clean, and smart, which helps build a good image and avoid public embarrassment.

Positive thinking

Expressing certainty or affirmation even in tough situations, focusing on goal accomplishment and self-improvement.

Time management

Planning and executing tasks according to a plan to achieve them on time.

Goal setting

Planning and accomplishing specific targets or goals within a designated timeframe.

Strengths

The things you are always good at, do well, and receive appreciation for from others.

Weaknesses

Also known as areas for improvement, these refer to the things an individual struggles with or does not do well.

Interests

Activities that an individual enjoys doing, wants to learn, or chooses to do voluntarily because they bring happiness.

Abilities

An acquired or natural capacity that enables an individual to execute a specific task or job with considerable proficiency.

Self-belief

Always believing in yourself, respecting failures, and striving to make yourself successful in life.

Hard Work

Working diligently to achieve a goal without being afraid of failures.

Positive Attitude

Focusing on goals and viewing hardships or losses as opportunities to analyze methods and improve for future success.

Grooming

The act of making oneself appear neat, orderly, and smart, maintaining personal hygiene for a pleasing personality.

Dressing

The act of putting on clothes.

Commitment

Dedication to a cause or goal, as demonstrated by Mahatma Gandhi using nonviolent civil disobedience to gain India's freedom.

Dipa Karmakar

The first Indian female gymnast in the Olympics who demonstrated hard work by overcoming a flat foot condition since six years of age.

Thomas Edison

The inventor who demonstrated self-belief and perseverance by creating hundreds of prototypes before successfully inventing the incandescent light bulb.

Mahatma Gandhi

The leader of the Indian Freedom Struggle who demonstrated commitment by using nonviolent civil disobedience to gain independence from the British Raj.