CBSE Class 10 Computer Science Self Management Skills II

SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Self Management Skills are those skills that help a person to control his thoughts, wants, feelings and actions. It allows you to maximize your productivity and performance in various fields of your career. When we talk about employability, Self-management skills help you to manage a good career path. It helps you to overcome in many bad situations. Here in this article, we will discuss Stress and Stress
Management Techniques and also we will discuss how to work independently.

Following are some of the skills you must master to succeed in life:
• Self-awareness: Ask for honest feedback. Gather insights on your personality and work-specific proficiencies. Think about your daily interactions and how you handled situations well or could have handled them differently.
• Responsibility: Taking responsibility for your tasks is very important. Taking ownership is the step towards self-development. For example, if you have been assigned a task by a teacher; ensure you take complete ownership. Even if you are unable to complete the task on time, you must report it and then correct it.
• Time Management: Prioritise the things you have to do. Remove waste and redundancy from work. Make a time table and follow it diligently.
• Adaptability: Stay current with best practices and read up on new information always. Prepare yourself for new changes, so that you can transition seamlessly.

What is Stress?
Stress can be defined as our emotional, mental, physical and social reaction to any perceived demands or threats. These demands or threats are called stressors. Stressors are the reason for stress.

For example,
• you are too close to the exams but feel unprepared.
• you are experiencing a loss of someone close in the family.
• you are worried about what people would think of you if you don’t dress well or cannot speak confidently.

Stress Management
Managing stress is about making a plan to be able to cope effectively with daily pressures. The ultimate goal is to strike a balance between life, work, relationships, relaxation, and fun. By doing this, you are able to deal with daily stress triggers and meet these challenges head-on.

Always keep in mind the ABC of stress management
A: Adversity or the stressful event
B: Beliefs or the way you respond to the event
C: Consequences or actions and outcomes of the event

Ability to Work Independently
If you can become a calm and relaxed person, you will have the ability to work independently, which means.
1. becoming self-aware, self-monitoring, and self-correcting.
2. knowing what you need to do.
3. taking the initiative rather than being told what to do.
4. recognising your mistakes and not blaming others.
5. having the ability and the will to learn continuously.

Techniques for Identifying your Strengths and Weaknesses
Finding Strengths (or abilities)
• Think of anything that you are always successful at.
• Think about what others like in you.
• Take out time and think about what you do well.

Management Techniques
Here are a few simple stress management techniques.
• Time management: Proper time management is one of the most effective stress-relieving techniques.
• Physical exercise and fresh air: A healthy lifestyle is essential for students. Stress is generally lower in people who maintain a healthy routine. Doing yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises help in proper blood circulation and relaxes the body. Even taking a walk or playing in the park will help you get a lot of fresh oxygen, which will help you become more active.
• Healthy diet: Having a healthy diet will also help you reduce stress. Eating a balanced diet, such as Dal, Roti, vegetables and fruits will give you the strength to do your daily work efficiently.
• Positivity: Focussing on negative aspects of life will add more stress. Instead, learn to look at the good things and stay positive. For example, instead of feeling upset over a scoring less in a test, try to maintain a positive attitude and look at ways to improve the next time.
• Sleep: We should get a good night’s sleep for at least 7 hours so that your brain and body gets recharged to function better the next day.
• Holidays with family and friends: Going to a relative’s place, such as your grandparents’ house or a new place during your summer vacations can help you break from the normal routine and come back afresh.

Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.
• Emotional awareness : the ability to identify and name one’s own emotions.
• Harnessing emotions : the ability to harness and apply emotions to tasks like thinking and problem solving.
• Managing emotions : the ability to regulate one’s own emotions when necessary and help others to do the same.

Some steps to manage emotional intelligence are as given below.
• Understand your emotions: Observe your behaviour and note the things you need to work on. You can then work on the things you need to improve.
• Rationalise: Do not take decisions abruptly; be rational in your thinking.
• Practice: Do meditation and yoga to keep yourself calm.

Finding Weaknesses
• Point out the areas where you struggle and the things you find difficult to do.
• Look at the feedback others usually give you.
• Be open to feedback and accept your weaknesses without feeling low about it. Take it as an area of improvement.

Difference between Interests and Abilities (Strengths)

Interests
1. Things that you like to do in your free time that make you happy. An acquired or natural capacity
2. Things you are curious about or would do even if no one asked you to do it.
3. Things you want to learn or would like to do in the future

Ability
1. An acquired or natural capacity
2. Enable you to perform a particular job or task with considerable proficiency.

Self-motivation
Self-motivation is simply the force within you that drives you to do things. Self-motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel happy and improve our quality of life. In other words, it is our ability to do the things that need to be done without someone or something influencing us.

Types of Motivation
Internal Motivation – We do things because they make us happy, healthy and feel good. For example, when you perform on your annual day function and you learn something new, such as dancing, singing, etc., you feel good.
External Motivation – We do things because they give us respect, recognition and appreciation. For example, Suresh participated in a 100m race and won a prize. This motivated him to go for practice every morning.

Qualities of Self-motivated People
1. Know what they want from life
2. Are focussed
3. Know what is important
4. Are dedicated to fulfill their dreams

Building Self-motivation
• Find out your strengths
• Set and focus on your goals
• Develop a plan
• to achieve your goals
• Stay loyal to your goals

Types Of Motivation

Goals: They are a set of dreams with a deadline to get them, for example, saving pocket money to
buy a favourite mobile phone by a particular date.
Goal setting: It is all about finding and listing your goals and then planning on how to achieve them.

How to Set Goals?
We can use SMART method to set goals. SMART stands for:
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Bound
• Specific : A specific and clear goal answers six questions. Who is involved in the goal? What do I
want to do? Where do I start? When do I start and finish? Which means do I use? Why am I doing
this?

Not a specific goal: “I would learn to speak English.”

Specific goal: “I would learn to speak English fluently by joining coaching classes after my school everyday, and in six months I will take part in the inter-school debate competition.”

Measureable : A measureable goal answers the questions “How much?”, “How many?” and “How do I know that I have achieved results?”

Not measurable goal: “I want to be rich.”

Measurable goal: “I want to have 5 times more money than what I have today in my hand at the end of this year.”

Achievable : Breaking down big goals into smaller parts will make the goal achievable. Bigger Goal:
“I want to become a teacher in my school.”

Realistic : A realistic goal would be something that we want to achieve and can work towards.

Example of unrealistic goal: “I will read my entire year’s syllabus in one day and get good marks.” 

Realistic goal: “I spend 3 hours every day of the year after school to revise my subjects to get good marks in the exams.”

Time bound : A SMART goal should have a timeframe by when the goal needs to be achieved.

This encourages us to take actions to completely fulfill the goals.

Not a time bound goal: “I want to lose 10 kg someday.”

Time bound goal: “I want to lose 10kg in the next 6 months.”

TIME MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPORTANCE
Time management is the thinking skill that helps you to
• complete tasks on time.
• make a daily timetable.
• make a good guess at how long it will take you to do something.
• submit homework and assignments on time.
• not waste time during the day.

Four Steps for Effective Time Management Organise
1.Organise: We plan our day to- day activities.
2.Pritortis: We make a to-do list that has all our activities and we rank them in the order of importance.
3. Control: We have a control over our activities and time.
4. Track: We identify and note where we have spent our time.

Objective Questions

Question. In the ABC of stress management, C stands for ___________.
a. Consequences
b. Cooperate
c. Collaboration
d. None of these.
Answer : A

Question. Identify the Stress Casual Agent’s.
Issues related to general well-being and health of an individual can lead to low self-esteem and cause stress.
a. Mental
b. Physical
c. Social
d. Financial.
Answer : B

Question. Identify the Stress Casual Agents.
High expectations from self can leave one with chronic anxiety and stress, thus leading to _________ stress.
a. Mental
b. Physical
c. Social
d. Financial.
Answer : A

Question. Identify the Stress Casual Agent’s.
Discord amongst family members, peer pressure for doing things that children would generally avoid, maintaining balance in relationships amongst friends, and status show off may lead to stress at times.
This leading to ________ stress.
a. Mental
b. Physical
c. Social
d. Financial.
Answer : C

Question. Impact of stress depends on _________.
a. Age and health
b. Profession
c. Living conditions
d. All of these
Answer : D

Question. Sonika gets up at 6 am and goes to her hobby classes. Then she comes back home and finishes her homework before going to school. She does all work by herself. No one tells her to do so. This is called ___________.
a. Self-Awareness
b. Self-Motivation
c. Self-Regulation
d. Discipline
Answer : B

Question. Find the odd stress symptom of the following.
a. Social withdrawal
b. Depression
c. Fatigue
d. Anxiety
Answer : C

Question. Which of the following is NOT a physical sign of stress?
a) Dry mouth
b) Guilt
c) Fatigue
d) Cold hands
Answer : B

Question. Identify the Stress Casual Agents.
As children grow up, they may seek more independence, may become critically conscious of their looks and have to cope up with hormonal changes.
a. Mental
b. Physical
c. Social
d. Financial.
Answer : B

Question. It refers to focusing human efforts for maintaining a healthy body and mind capable of better withstanding stressful situations.
a. Stress Management
b. Exercise Management
c. Fitness Management
d. Personality management
Answer : A

Question. Imagined, unreal threats affect us ________.
a. Psychologically
b. Physically
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. There is nothing as imagined, unreal threats.
Answer : C

Question. Managing stress is about making a plan to be able to cope effectively with daily pressures.
Always keep in mind the ABC of stress management. The acronym ABC stands for _________ .
a. Ability, Burden, Concise
b. Adore, Belief, Cause
c. Adversity, Beliefs, Consequences
d. Adapt, Balance, Cooperate
Answer : C

Question. Identify the Stress Casual Agent’s.
Students can be left overwhelmed if they are unable to handle their assignment submission deadlines and examinations grades.
a. Mental
b. Physical
c. Social
d. Financial.
Answer : A

Question. Find the odd stress symptom of the following.
a. Chest pain
b. Angry outburst
c. Headache
d. Low energy
Answer : B

Question. Ravi is suffering from insomnia due to noisy marketplace in his neighborhood. What remedy do you suggest him?
a. Change of place
b. Go on a quieter place during vacations
c. Take medications for insomniad. Install sound proof windows and doors.
Answer : B

Vert Short Answer type Questions

Question. What do you mean by Self management?
Answer : Self-management, also referred to as ‘self-control,’ is the ability to control one’s emotions, thoughts and behavior effectively in different situations.

Question. What do you mean by emotional intelligence?
Answer : Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.

Question. Write the effects of stress on our life.
Answer :It can harm our emotional and physical health, and limit our ability to function well at home, in school and within our relationships.

Question. What do you mean by Self awareness?
Answer :Self awareness means knowing your inner strengths, hidden talents, skills and even weaknesses.

Question. How good knowledge is useful?
Answer : Good knowledge acquisition and learning increases self-esteem and develops an inquisitive mindset and curious approach.

Question. Who is known as Team player?
Answer : A person who conforms well with norms of a team and contributes to the attainment of the common goals in an efficient and effective way is called as a team player.

Question. Who is Time Management?
Answer : Time Management is conscious effort to prioritize task according to the time at hand to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness.

Question. How is Self-Management exhibited?
Answer : Self-management is exhibited by our habits, manners, knowledge, intentions and our deeds.

Question. What is the aim of Self-Management person?
Answer : The aims of Self-Management person are conducting oneself for the greater good of the individual, family and the society.

Question. What do you mean by Time management?
Answer : Time management is the ability to plan and control how you spend your day well and do all that you want to do.

Question. How good habit is useful?
Answer : Good habits like brushing teeth, taking bath, eating balanced diet and getting up and sleeping at right time every day, helps us maintain good health and physique.

Question. What is Stress?
Answer : Stress can be defined as our emotional, mental, physical and social reaction to any perceived demands or threats.

Question. How good intentions are useful?
Answer : Good intentions guide us to do the right things. They help us identify the right path and right approach to handle situations.

Question. What are the environmental forces for students?
Answer : Environmental forces for students can be the class schedule, assignments, competitions, exams, different students and their behavior.

Question. What do you mean by Self motivation?
Answer : Self-motivation is an internal force that pushes us to achieve our goals, feel happy and improve our quality of life.

Question. What is Stress management?
Answer : Stress management is managing stress by making a plan to be able to cope effectively with daily pressures.

Question. How a good deed is useful?
Answer : A good deed done to help others is worth more than a million good words spoken.

Short Answer type Questions

Question. What are the benefits of Stress management?
Answer : Benefits of Stress management are :
1 We have a joyful life.
2. We will be more energetic and spend quality time with our friends and family.
3. We can complete our task on time

Question. Give any two examples where small amount of stress is helpful.
Answer : Two examples where small amount of stress is helpful are :
1. A fire alarm is intended to cause stress that alerts you to avoid danger.
2. The stress created by a deadline to finish a paper can motivate you to finish it on time.

Question. Name any four stress management techniques.
Answer : Four stress management techniques are :
a. Time management
b. Physical exercise and fresh air.
c. Healthy diet
d. Holidays with family and friends

Question. Write four qualities of those person who work independently.
Answer : Four qualities are:
• They are self-aware, self-monitored and self-correcting.
• They take the initiative rather than being told what to do.
• They have the ability to learn continuously.
• They recognize their own mistakes.

Question. Write three steps to manage emotional intelligence.
Answer : Three steps to manage emotional intelligence are :
1 Understand your emotions: Observe your behavior and then work on the things you need to improve.
2. Rationalize: Do not take decisions abruptly; be rational in your thinking.
3. Practice: Do meditation and yoga to keep yourself calm.

Question. Write four Qualities of Self-motivated people.
Answer : Four Qualities of Self-motivated People are:
1 They know what they want from life.
2. They are focused.
3. They know what is important for them.
4. They are dedicated to fulfill their dreams.

Question. Write four steps of Self motivation.
Answer : Four steps of Self motivation are :
1 Find out your strengths.
2. Focus on your goals.
3. Develop a plan to achieve your goals.
4. Stay loyal to your goals.

Question. Write four sign/symptoms of stress.
Answer : Four Symptoms of stress management are :
a. Headache
b. Sleeplessness
c. Sadness
d. Excessive worrying
e. Nervousness

Question. What do you mean by Goal and Goal Setting?
Answer : Goals : They are a set of dreams with a deadline to get them, for example, saving pocket money to buy a favorite mobile phone by a particular date.
Goal setting : It is all about finding and listing your goals and then planning on how to achieve them

Question. Ravi is using SMART method to set goals. What is SMART stands for?
Answer : SMART stands for :
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time bound

Question. Write difference between interests and abilities?
Answer : Interests are the things that we enjoy doing ability acquired or natural capacity that enable 
an individual to perform a particular task with considerable proficiency.
Interest may include –
Activities you like most to do at school or at home that make you happy.
Even if no one asks you to do the activity but you want to do it.
Activities that you like to learn or do in the future.

Question. What do you mean by self-monitor?
Answer : Self-monitor means, individual can monitor their conduct and behavior. It makes them proactive. It prepares individuals to complete task independently. Instill ownership to the task and the consequences amongst individuals.

Question. Write the four steps for effective Time management.
Answer : Four Steps for Effective Time Management are :
a. Organise : We should plan our day-to-day activities.
b. Pritortise We should make our to-do-list
c. Control : We should have a control over our activities and time.
d. Track: We should identify and note where we have spent our time.

Question. What are the different practices of self management skills?
Answer : Self – management skills are –
a. Self – awareness – Ability to control your values, likes, strengths, dislikes and weaknesses, etc.
b. Self – control – Holding the ability to control your behavior, discipline, and so on.
c. Self – confidence – Believe in yourself and don’t be scared to take risks.
d. Problem solving – Understanding a problem and finding the solution.
e. Self motivation – Try to complete your tasks without any external help.
f. Personal hygiene – Be healthy, clean and smart
g. Positive thinking – Expressing certainty or affirmation even in tough situations
h. Teamwork – Work in team to complete the goals
i. Time management – According to your plan, achieve the task on time.
j. Goal setting – Plan and accomplish the goals within a timeframe.

Question. Write a short note on the factors influencing self – management.
Answer : Factors influencing the self – management are patients, cognitive, mental, and behavioral ability to identify disease – related symptoms, seek treatment, and to identify physical, psychological and social changes.

Question. What do you mean by self – management skills?
Answer : Your ability to regulate and control your actions, feelings, and thoughts is referred to as selfmanagement skills. It also helps to improve personal and academic goals.
Self-management can also helps in the following areas:-
• Reaching your goals
• Developing good habits
• Overcoming challenges and difficulties
• Overcoming bad habits

Question. How to build self – confidence?
Answer : There are three steps to build self – confidence are as follows –
a. Step 1: Appreciate achievements & accept failures.
b. Step 2: Make a goal and try to achieve.
c. Step 3: Always look on the positive side and be happy.

Question. Write Self – management skills strengths and weaknesses?
Answer : Self – management skills strengths and weaknesses –
Strengths –
• Think that you are always good at
• Think about what you do well
• Think about what others appreciate about you
Weaknesses –
• Identify the areas where you struggle and what you find difficult to do
• Accept the feedback you receive from others
• Be positive with feedback and try to improve yourself.

Question. Write the qualities of Self-Management person.
Answer : The qualities of Self-Management person are :-
(a) Self-managed person not only manages himself well but also behaves responsibly towards people around.
(b) Self- Management is needed by everyone around us and it is needed in all stages and walks of life.
(c) Self-managed person is like a tree who is taking care of itself and is also helping others to lead a comfortable life.

Question. What do you mean by stress management?
Answer : Stress management refers to a state of psychological tension and discomfort originating from unforeseen, difficult, confusing and challenging situations.

Question. What do you mean by self-evaluation?
Answer : Self-evaluation means, individual can do course correction by themselves if they do not get desired goals. Once the goals are achieved as desired, it also motivates individuals.

Question. Write the Qualities of self – confidence?
Answer : Qualities of self – confident people –
a. Self – belief – Always believe in yourself and respect the failures, make you successful in life.
b. Hard Work – Work hard to achieve the goal, don’t be afraid of failures.
c. Positive Attitude – Positive attitude means focusing on the goal and trying to achieve.

Question. What is Self-Confidence?
Answer : General neatness, grooming, appropriate dressing, apt verbal and non-verbal communication are components of good personality. It is called personality management.

Question. What are the factors that decrease self – confidence?
Answer : Some of the factors which decrease self – confidence
• When we think we are unable to complete a task.
• When you feel bad from the past mistakes, and unmotivated.
• After failure in the first attempt, do not try again to achieve the goal.
• When we are surrounded by people who have negative thoughts.

Question. What is Self-Management?
Answer : Self-Management refers to management of or by oneself; taking of responsibility for one’s own behavior and well-being.
It also means managing yourself with the people and resources around you.

Question. What do you mean by Independent Working?
Answer : When an individual is assigned a task(s), he/she takes ownership and doesn’t require constant assistance or supervision to complete that task(s). This is called Independence working.

Question. What are the reasons for promotion of Self-Management person.
Answer : The reasons behind promotion of self-management are as follows:
(a) Don’t want the individual to be dependent on anybody else.
(b) to instills self-confidence in individual to deal his or her life
(c) to provides a long term and sustainable mechanism of handling personal life.

Question. What are the benefits of principles of self-management for students?
Answer : Benefits of principle of self-management are
(a) It guides individuals to self-monitor their conduct and behavior.
(b) It helps in self-evaluation.
(c) It leads to self – reinforcement of positive behavior.

Question. What do you mean by self-reinforcement?
Answer : Self-reinforcement means appropriate behavior of students as per the time, situation and people involved. Self-reinforcement motivates individuals to take up right things and refrains fromgetting indulged into negative things, keeping long term consequences in focus.

Question. Who guide the person in day to day life?
Answer : Generally Parents, teachers and guardians are guide them. But in absence of them, principle of self-management guide the individual day in and day out, on how to respond to the environmental forces.

Question. What are the different types of self-management skills?
Answer : Following are the self-management skills that individuals should possess to enjoy the fruitsof self-management.
(a) Self-confidence
(b) Stress Management
(c) Independent Working
(d) Team Player
(e) Time Management
(f) Self-motivation
(g) Personality management

Question. What is Self-confidence?
Answer : Self-confidence refers to trusting one capabilities and potentialities to achieve the necessary goals, objectives and challenges in life and being worthy of leading a happy life.

Question. What is Self-Motivation?
Answer : Motivation is defined as a driving force responsible to do something. The students who are motivated to achieve their academic goal, their future is much better than others. This is called Selfmotivation.

Question. What is Personality management?
Answer : General neatness, grooming, appropriate dressing, apt verbal and non-verbal communication are components of good personality. It is called personality management.