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Personal
Development
Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Developing the Whole Person

(Unknown, Four Tips To Determine The Best Self Improvement Program, 2016)

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Personal Development – Grade 11
Quarter 1 – Module 2: Developing the Whole Person

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Personal Development – Grade 11
Quarter 1 – Module 2: Developing the Whole Person

I. INTRODUCTION

In this module, you will be exploring significant concepts about the person’s
holistic development. You will also be dealing with different aspects of life
development as well as the effect to real life situations.

At the end of this weeklong lesson, you will correlate your strengths and
weaknesses that you have discovered within yourself with your previous lesson
about self-concept.

I. OBJECTIVES

The learners …

1. Evaluate their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours, EsP-PD11/12DWP-Ib-

2.2; and
2. Show the connection of their thoughts, feelings and actions to actual life
situation, EsP-PD11/12DWP-Ic-2.3.

II. VOCABULARY

1. Holistic development – human development that is meant to

involve all the aspects which is designed to accommodate physical
mental, emotional and social growth and development.

2. Mental – the thought processes which includes thinking,

recognizing, reasoning, analyzing, projecting, synthesizing,
recalling, and assessing which is developed from childhood to
adulthood
3. Physical – the tangible aspect of personality which include its
description
4. Emotional/Psychological– how thinking, feeling, and behaving
interact and happen in a person
5. Sana all – is a bilingual phrase (Filipino and English) used by
Filipinos to hope (Sana) that someday everyone or “all would be in
same situation that you’re wishing that for. (De Leon, 2020)
6. Self-concept - an idea of self-constructed from the beliefs one
holds about oneself and the responses of others.

A self-concept is largely a reflection of the reactions of others

towards the individuals. (Lexico, Lexico)
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 7. Social – the interaction of individual with other individuals or
groups.

8. Spiritual – this refers to beliefs, values, morality, rules,

experiences, and good works. This is person’s relationship
with God.

IV. PRE-TEST
Multiple Choice. Write the correct answer on the answer sheet.
(Portfolio Notebook)

1. Which of the following refers to human development that is

meant to involve all the parts of a person?
a. Holistic development c. Holistic
b. Holistic approach d. Whole

2. The following are ways to be a real winner, EXCEPT,

a. Win the goodwill of others, their respect and admiration
b. Get what he wants at the expense of others
c. Discover and use opportunities to his best advantage
d. Find meaning in pleasant and unpleasant events in his life
3. Which of the following best represents self-concept?
a. Body c. Behaviour
b. Mind d. All of the above

4. Which of the following describes mind as an aspect of

development?
a. It is tangible, obvious and we respond to it easily
b. It is our feelings
c. It directs the other two aspects
d. All of the above
5. Which refers to an assessment of how well you reason and
solve problems your capacity to learn and create your general
amount of knowledge, wisdom you have acquired and insights
you have?
a. Mental c. Emotional
b. Physical d. Nutritional

V. LEARNING ACTIVITIES

A. What do you mean?

What comes into your mind when you hear someone saying
“Sana all”? Do you say such phrase too? In what situation/s

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 do you usually utter such phrase? And, what makes you
think of that?
________________________________________________________________________
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B. DISCUSSION
Read the following text closely, then, do the tasks that follow.

Personal development refers to those activities that improve a person’s

talents, potential, employability, consciousness and ability to realize dreams and
create wealth. In short, it’s what you do to improve yourself and your prospects in
life.1

Generally, our adult lives are shaped by the experiences and circumstances
of our families, neighborhoods and schools during our formative years. Later in life
however, our motivations to develop ourselves are powered by our desire to fulfill
certain needs, as neatly presented in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (Verfasst, 2018)

Life is multi-dimensional and complex. For the individual to attain optimum

well-being, he has to improve his personality. This can be done by focusing in all
aspects of personal development and not merely by a selected domain. These five
aspects are discussed below.

The five aspects of life are given a situational example in the previous activity
for you to be aware and determine which aspects need to work on for improvement.
Here are the five aspects of personal development: 1) physical, 2) mental, 3)
Emotional, 4) Social, and 5) Spiritual.

Points to Ponder:
Holistic development is not an
overnight project that someone has to
undertake but rather this is a critical
process which someone has to
undergone stages by stages. It is
believed by a known psychologist that
whatever personality you have as an
adult is a product of self-development
Source: (Fotolia, 2017)
from childhood up to the present. Self-
development includes different aspects
which include physical, emotional,
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Physical

Body is the most important aspect as it binds all other factors. As it is said,
“A healthy body is a healthy mind” and “health is wealth”. This is basic for success.

Please do not underestimate the importance of keeping your body in shape.

It’s about much more than just looking and feeling good about yourself – it is also
about living a life of health and longevity, and keeping your mind fit as well. You
can have everything else in your life figured out, but if you don’t maintain your
health you won’t be around very long to enjoy it. (Handel, 2009)

It is said that if you are presentably looking you have an edge for a lot of
opportunities. This is the reason that makes many people to be focused on their
physical appearance. It might be true, but an oddly looking person can even be
happy and successful by enhancing what qualities that they already have like
intellectual, good behavior, public relations and so others. The physical concern of
a person is simply referred as concern on a tangible aspect of self-development.

Mental

Learning is something that is a lifelong endeavor.

And studies show that continuing to exercise your brain
is a great way to improve cognitive abilities and maintain
mental health into an old age (including preventing
dementia and memory loss).

It’s important that we continue to use our brains to

learn new things and challenge ourselves, especially as we
get older. Education makes you a better and more well-
rounded person overall, and it’s an essential component to
all self-improvement. (Handel, 2009)

Individuals think and reason before they act. Thus, an understanding of how
people think can be helpful if we are to explain and predict their behavior.
Behavior, listening, personality these all factors basically shaped by thinking.

Our intellectual ability helps us resolve even a difficult problem at immediate

cause. Yet, everyone has the ability to do so but learning and thinking would
improve our reasoning that will lighten our future.

Emotional

Emotional or Psychological refers how thinking, feeling, and behaving

interact and happen in a person

It’s important that we continue to use our brains to learn new things and
challenge ourselves, especially as we get older. Education makes you a better and

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more well-rounded person overall, and it’s an essential component to all self-
improvement.

Stress management is essential for mental health and emotional intelligence.

If you don’t know how to manage your stress in a healthy way, it can often spillover
into your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by making you more sensitive, irritable,
and bothered (even by little things). (Handel, 2009)

Social

Healthy relationships play an important role to happiness and well-being.

“No one is an island” means that we need people to be part of our personality
development. We have to develop rapport with family, neighbors, friends, and
others so we can have satisfaction in our dealings with them. Remember that
actions of an individual are responses which are based from the situation that
others have initiated. So, behavior and how people react is influence by social
factors. People change behaviors as resulted to learning from different sources.

Whether it’s in the real world or on the internet, the same basic rules apply
to all healthy and positive relationships: be kind to others, treat them with respect,
listen to their viewpoints, and don’t respond by attacking or insulting. (Handel,
2009) If you practice these attitudes, you will have happiness.

Spiritual

Many refer to this area as religion. But, it is not simply means that way but
rather this means your real purpose of life. This also includes conscientiousness
which means likely to be organized, systematic, careful, thorough, responsible, self-
disciplined, and achievement-oriented.

Believing that life is good, and that everything happens for a reason. Even if
it is a positive or negative experience, you learned lesson from it. You should value
it as it molds your personality.

Religion believes that the purpose of the human life is to serve the creator of
all things. Several theories in psychology propose that we ultimately give meaning
to our lives. Whether we believe that life’s meaning is pre-determined or self-
directed, to grow in spirit is to realise that we do not merely exist. We do not know
the meaning of our lives at birth; but we gain knowledge and wisdom from our
interactions with people and from our actions and reactions to the situations we
are in.

As we discover this meaning, there are certain beliefs and values that we
reject and affirm. Our lives have purpose. This purpose puts all our physical,
emotional, and intellectual potentials into use; sustains us during trying times; and
gives us something to look forward to---a goal to achieve, a destination to reach. A
person without purpose or meaning is like a drifting ship at sea. (Unknown, 2011)

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 Maslow identified several human needs: physiological, security,
belongingness, esteem, cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization, and
self-transcendence. James earlier categorized these needs into three:
material, emotional, and spiritual. When you have satisfied the basic
physiological and emotional needs, spiritual or existential needs
come next. Achieving each need leads to the total development of
the individual. Perhaps the difference between these two religions
and psychology is the end of self-development: Religion see that self-
development is a means toward serving God, while psychology view
that self-development is an end by itself. (Unknown, The Self
Improvement Handbook, 2011)

Source: (Cherry & Swaim, 2020)

GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. What are the different aspects of self?

2. What are the connections of these aspects with

one another? Could one be independent? Or all are
dependent among each other?

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Whew! That was a long

reading but it’s okay, I
learned a lot!

VI. Practice task 1:

This time, try to assess your aspects of development. Please be honest

in giving your answer/s in each of the aspect as it may interfere with your
output in the next activity.

Identify the aspects of development involve in each of the questions

below. Select your answer from the set of terms given then write it inside the

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box before each number. Then, write your responses/reactions on the given
situation.

Physical Spiritual
Mental Social
Emotional Interactional

1. Do you have traits/features similar or not similar with your

siblings? How do you react with this especially when people
tend to compare you with them?

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

2. What is are your cognitive skills? How did you acquire or

master each cognitive skill?

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

3. What are the effects of cooperative learning structures?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________

4. Where do you excel? How do you use this strength in

learning?

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

5. How do you deal with your competitor? Describe your

relationship with your family.

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________

6. What are the effects of your eating habits and food

preferences?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________

7. How do you react with your changing environment, a

changing socio-cultural experience?

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 ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
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8. How do you show your spiritual strength?

______________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________

After completing the above activity, you may now answer the
following questions in your notebooks.

1. How do you react with stressors?

2. How do you do as daughter, friend and sister/brother?
3. How do you get, process and use information?
4. How do you solve problem?
5. How are the aspects of selves related with one another?

Oh, it’s a bit tough,

but I’ve done it!

Now, that you have your self-concept assessment, proceed to the next
activity.

Practice Task 2 Developing your Aspects of Development:

In the previous activity, you have identified your aspects of development and
have reacted in the given situation. Now, you will assess your strengths and
weaknesses in terms of different aspect of development and tell whether you are
dealing with each aspect positively or negatively.

Develop a plan of action which helps you grow as a person. Select two best
aspects of development that you are strong and list down ways on how to improve
these further. Likewise, list another least (2) two aspects which need to work on for
at least you will develop them and you gain confidence on it. Use the table below.

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 Aspect of How to Improve Aspect of How to Improve
Development Development
(Strength) (Weakness)
1. 1.

2. 2.

RUBRIC FOR RATING THE ACTION PLAN

Beginning developing Accomplished Exemplary

Aspects of Briefly Describe the Thoroughly
personal Does not describe the aspects and describe the
development describe the and explain explain the aspects and
aspects the reaction reaction explain the
correctly and correctly reaction
explain the correctly
reaction
Action Does not list List actions List actions List actions
action but did not and describe and
elaborate actions thoroughly
describe
actions
Action Does not list List action Explains Clearly
Proposal action but do not action explains action
explain the proposal and proposal and
importance of outlines steps details steps to
the actions to achieve it. achieve it.
Explains the Thoroughly
importance of explains
the action. importance of
the action

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 Let us check what you have realized in the previous
activities by answering the next questions.

1. What is the action plan for?

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
2. Do you think it will help you achieve your goals in life? How?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

Practice Task 3
STORY TELLING

Write a brief story of a very successful person whom you know and
share how he/she influences you. Mention how he/she became
well-known and describe his/her qualities that enables him/her to
achieve success.

Rubric for Rating the Story Writing and Story Telling

4 3 2 1
Organization Ideas and Ideas and Ideas are well Story is well
scene is not scene is hard organized but organized and
organized to follow. sometimes easy to follow

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 Transiiton is jump from one
not clear to another.
Concept have Have some Needs to Simply reread
understood clarification in redirect the the story
and order to discussion in
associated the understand order to
values in the and associate understand
story in her life the values of and associate
through the story in the values of
answering the her life. the sory
guide
questions
clearly.

Delivery Always speak s Usually speaks May speaks so May speaks so

loudly, clearly loudly, clearly soft, mostly soft, mostly
and slowly; and slowly; unclear and unclear and
Story is lively Story is told rapidly; rapidly,
told with well with facial Story is told in mumbles;
approproate expression a rushed Story is told
facial manner without
expression excitement
TOTAL 12 9 6 3

Recall the story that you have written, then answer the questions
that follow:

1. What are the personal qualities that she/he possesses that you also
have? On the other hand, those you do not have?

2. Do you think these qualities that you have will make you reach the
same success? In what way?

3. If not given the same opportunity as he/she had, how can you cope
with it?

4. Even if you do not have the same qualities, do you think you can still
achieve success? How?

REMEMBER! Nobody is perfect. Knowing and accepting yourself will help you
live a happy life. Life need not be perfect but learn to accept it
and be happy. Develop all aspects of self-development because
limiting one aspect will probably make you unhappy. Do not
just focus on your strengths but rather work on with your
weaknesses for at least you will develop self-confidence and
self-esteem.

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VII. POST TEST

I. True or False: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is

incorrect. Write your answer on the space provided.
__________1. Thought and feeling are the same.
__________2. A person cannot have every aspect of development.
__________3. What is uppermost in one’s mind is uttered by words.
__________4. You can give what you do not have.
__________5. Interactional self is included in the basic but different aspects
of self.

II. Matching Type: Match the word in Column A with the phrase in Column
B.

A B

1. Social a. Typical feelings, feelings you seldom

have, feeling you try to avoid

2. Spiritual b. Include here an assessment of how well

you reason and solve problems, your
capacity to learn and create, your
general amount of knowledge, your
specific areas of knowledge, wisdom
you have acquired, and insights you
have.

3. Mental c. What sense do you use most – sight,

hearing, speaking, smelling, touching?
4. Emotional d. How do you react with your
environment?

5. Physical e. Think about your inner peace and joy.

III. Case Analysis

You have currently facing a difficult problem as your parents were

just separated for financial reasons. Your elder sister who still in third
year college became desperate of the situation and so decided to live with
her boyfriend who is still studying. You are forced to live with your
grandparent.

a. How will you resolve the problem?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

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 b. What best possible ways you can do to solve it?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

VI. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY

THINK!
SHARE!
REFLECT!

Think about your own motivational story. Find someone from your family
whom you can share it with. Make sure that he/she should likewise share
his/her story. On one whole sheet of paper, write a reflection about your story
as well as your partner’s story. Then, answer the guide question in your
notebook.

Guide Questions:
1. How do your feelings and emotions affect the way you think and
behave?
2. Compare how you and your partner dealt with your individual
experiences?
3. Which among you have good ingredients for success in any way?

Rubric for reflection:

Criteria Fails to meet Needs Meets Exceed
expectations Improvement expectation Expectation
(1) (2) (3) (4)
Concept Shows no Shows Shows clear Shows
evidence ofevidence but though about evidence of
deep thought shallow and the ideas deep thought
about the idea needs to through the
present use of
detailed description
evaluation and detail
explanation
Organization Disorganized Disorganized Organized Easy to
and the reader and leaves the but leaves understand,
can not follow reader the reader to organization
the paper at wondering re-read the clearly evident
any length what is being paper in by the parts of
said order to the paper.
understand

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Connection Have no Have Have Have
connection in connection in connection in connection to
the topic the topic but the topic and the topic and
have little important with highly
supporting points make organized ideas
evidence sense

REFERENCES
A. DepEd Division of Camarines Norte DLP, PDG11S1W2D2
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Answer Key

A. Pre-test
1. a 2. b 3. d 4. d 5. a

B. Learning Activities A. What do you mean?

Answers may vary. Possible answer:

Physical Concern: “Sana all Maganda/Gwapo”. We teenagers often concerns with

our physical looks. It seems that if someone is good looking she/he usually catches
attention that we usually envy of.

Mental Concern: “Sana all Matalino”. Sibling’s envy usually happens when one
sibling has been always compared with another sibling by their parents for having
been academic achiever. “Bakit hindi ka gumaya kay ate mo?” or other comments.

Behavioral/Spiritual Concern: Teacher maybe proud and appreciated the good acts
of the students and the one that is not appreciated would tell the phrase “Sana all
mabait”.

Social Concern: “Sana all Paborito”, usually happens when teachers/parents/peers

always call the person.

Guide Questions: Learning Activities

1. The aspects of self are physical, mental, emotional, social and

spiritual in general but there are still other factors that can be
mentioned within the basic areas.
2. Body is a tangible aspect that serves as a framework of other factors.
Making this healthy will make your other areas of self-development
function well.

A person who acquired confidence and self-esteem can have of course

interacts with people in a manner that is acceptable to social
standard as well. An intellectual capacity would bring you to a better
adaptation to changing environment and as well as stress. If you are
happy and self-contented you can also easily find meaning to what life
is. Why we are living with our family, friends and other people

A. Assess aspects of your development

1. PHYSICAL
Possible answer 1: think of self-improvement not self-pitying.

Possible answer 2: We do have similarities but people tend to compare

us, they would say that my elder sister looks better than me because her
resemblance is more of my (either mother or father) who is (having good
physical looks as of their nose, eyes, skin color, hair texture, body
structure and height and other).

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 Being compare for having your sibling looks like that would cause
insecurity but looking at it as motivation will be helpful. If someone has
not presentable as others then improve his/her looks in other way
around. Like for example being smart and behaving in a pleasant
manner.

Possible answer 3: No two people are alike even of same genes. Accepting
your traits for what is it would help you move on and improve the way it
is. Have a positive outlook. Anyway the medical advancement can help
you improve the physical looks. You might have that look because it has
a purpose. There are personalities who are not good-looking but become
successful for their oddly looks.

2. MENTAL
Possible answer 1: Learning is a process to master cognitive skills. A
mastered skill is shown in the way people’s reasoning, solving problems,
and insights. It also involved capacity to learn and create. Having this
mastered skill will be the edge in being successful and having
contentment.

Possible answer 2: Use this mastered skill effectively and not to be boast.
Share the knowledge and skill to others.

3. SOCIAL
Cooperative learning structures, in which students work together and
help one another also tend to promote more positive self-evaluations of
capability and higher academic attainments than do individualistic or
competitive ones.

4. COGNITIVE
Help them move up. Give advices that help them boost their confidence.
(Problem solving)

5. EMOTIONAL
Possible answer 1: Do not deal them as competitor but rather work with
him/her. Learn to use and adopt his/her qualities that make him/her at
edge. In return, share whatever you have. In this way, both of you will
improve and develop.

Possible answer 2: Accept yourself, stop telling Sana all and stop
thinking that you are just a second-rate being.

6. SOCIAL
Family is more than any wealth. There are lot of things that you can buy
but having a family with respect, love, trust and fidelity would make
someone live a happy and contented life. Generally a happy and satisfied
individual will have established good relationship with other people and
will be inspired to work as well.

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7. PHYSICAL
Possible Answer: Body is the framework of our personality. Making our
body healthy makes other factors do the purposes. It is necessary for an
individual to observe good eating habits and food preferences should be
based from the needs of his body.

8. BEHAVIORAL/MENTAL/SOCIAL
Possible Answer 1: Life is a continuous change. This change makes us
face challenges, difficulties that cause stress. But, adaptation is the basic
property that you have to own in order for you to survive.

Possible Answer 2: Go with the flow. Be flexible and learn to adapt with
the environment. You can’t be a green bug on a brown field.

9. Possible answer: Being a good person at all times means possessing good
moral conduct. Generally, doing the goodwill and obey the laws of God.

B. Developing your Aspects of Development

1. Action plan is a blueprint of all the action that you have to do in an in
an indicated manner. This help you help achieve your desired
outcome for self-improvement/development.

2. Refer to sample action plan for personality development.

C. Story Telling –
Guide Questions:
1. List down the personal qualities/skills that she/he possesses that you
already have. On the other hand, those who do not have?

Qualities that she/possesses as well as me

Perseverance – despite the challenges and difficulties in life I still
pursue to my dreams. Ex. My family is now hard-up because of my
father was lay-off from work but we still work together to sustain our
basic needs as well as to pursue my dream which is to finish my
study until become professional.

Determination – not being destructed with the problems that I am

facing.
Focus – Success is not an overnight process it takes long time so I
need to be focused on achieving my goal in life.
Qualities that I do not have or would I say not yet improve is the self-
confidence.

Self-confidence resulted from getting aware of personal self. Take

failures as motivation to learn positive attitudes in doing actions
which are necessary for the achievement of goals.

2. Do you think these qualities that you have will make you reach the
same success? In what way?

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 Yes, taking him/her/them as inspiration. Not necessarily following
the same but at least observing and utilizing these skills will help me
to be an effective and successful person.

3. If not given, the same opportunity as he/she had, how can you cope
with it?
Possible Answer: Refer to your action plan. Determine your goals in
each area, and know the steps to take to reach these goals. If one
action is not possible always have negotiation with yourself. Always
remember that work on with your weaknesses and further develop
your strength. Use this as your investment.

4. Even if you do not have the same qualities, do you think you can still
achieve the success how?

Yes, because right now I am still on the process of improving myself.

Learn from other people’s experiences. No one is born leaders, but
rather it is developed. Being positive, and staying positive is a choice.

D. POST –TEST
1. False (they are interrelated)
2. False (they should have all to be holistic)
3. True
4. False
5. True
6. d
7. e
8. b
9. a
10. c

Case study

Question 1. Possible Answer:

Problem usually come and goes as part of the life aspect. Everyone
experiences problem but in different degree. Sometimes, even persons with similar
problem have different degree of effect on each individual.

The situation might be difficult but I do not let pain transform itself into fear.
Look at what you‟re looking at. Don‟t wrap yourself up with all the negativities of
the world. In building self-esteem, we must learn how to make the best out of worst
situations.

Question 2. Possible Answer

No other thing that I can do but to live my grandparents and move on. Just
being positive and think that everything happens for a purpose. Make this bad
experience as a motivation to improve yourself. Work on with the dreams. Have the
skills of determination, focus, problem-solving, creativity and other that will help
you a better person.

E. Additional Activity:

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 Questions
1. How do your feelings and emotions affect the way you think and behave?
Possible Answer:
If you are a person who cannot control your emotions/feelings your
thought will highly be affected. You may alter your brain functions as you
may miss the signals.

Example, an aggressive person will always lead to pain as they could

always hurt someone’s emotion or even physical pain.
2. Compare how you and your partner dealt with your individual
experiences?
Possible Answer: As a teenager we almost have the same experiences, maybe
good or bad. In good experiences we felt so happy and thus acquire positivity
in dealing with life. But, during hardship we sometimes felt down and need
someone to help us. AT the times we are down our physical activities are
also limited. The five aspect of personality are affected as they are
interconnected.

If we are exposed to a new environment and new experiences we usually take

time learning to accept and adjust with the situation.

3. Which among you have good ingredients for success in any way?
They can refer to their action plan.

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