CBSE Information Technology-Class-IX Unit-II (Solved Exercise-1):

Unit-II

Chapter:-1 Self Management Skills

Solved Exercise

1. Write T for true and F for false against the following statements:
a. Problem solving skills help to tune your brain as a mechanism for making right decisions.T
b. Self-management helps you to mange yourself, so you can manage situations. T
c. A positive attitude is not necessary for success in life. F
d. Self-management skills help us to do tasks on time. T
e. Increase in the concentration levels usually results in lower efficiency at work. F
f. Self-management reduces stress and creates a congenial atmosphere at the work place. T
g. Patience lets you stay calm while dealing with adverse situations. T

2. Short Answer Questions:
a. What is self-management?
Answer: Self-management manage our own thoughts, behaviour and actions to the best of our ability. The term self-management is made of two words- self and management. Self means you and the sum of your personality that includes your potential, abilities, thoughts and the goals you set for yourself in your life. Management means the way you go about understanding your potential, your abilities and competing the tasks, to achieve your predetermined goals.

b. What is meant by the self-management skills?
Answer: The set of skills that help us to manage ourselves are called the self-management skills.This means developing skills such as a positive attitude, self-control, excellence, self-confidence, patience, emotional discipline, persistence and resilience.

c. Name any three self-management skills.
Answer: Three self management skills:
1. Positive attitude: A positive attitude means that your thoughts, behaviour and actions are always positive and your outlook is optimistic.
2. Self control: The essential skill for self-management is self-control.
3. Self confidence: Self-confidence is the ability to believe in yourself and and trust your own judgment.

d. Why is a positive attitude essential for self-management?
Answer: Positive attitude is essential for self-management because of positive attitude is the key to success. If you have positive attitude the you are able to take difficult situations as opportunities, take problems as challenges, take shocks as blessings to learn from, etc. to you can succeed.

e. How is persistence and resilience important in self-management?
Answer: Persistence and resilience are other names for hard work. Persistence allows you to relentlessly pursue your goals, even under the most difficult situations.Resilience allows you to adapt to or overcome setbacks that might otherwise prevent you from achieving your goals. These are essential skills for self-management.

f. What is meant by time management?
Answer: Time management is an extremely important self-management skills that increases your productivity at home, at the workplace and in society. It helps you to be result-oriented, which is central to success.

g. What are the positive outcomes of developing self-management skills?
Answer: Developing self-management skills render many positive results. It helps you to solve problems, manage time, stress and anger and even convert failure into success.
Some of the positive outcomes of self-management:
a. Problem solving
b. Time management
c. Stress management
d. Anger management
e. Turning failure into success.
h. How can we manage anger and stress?
Answer:
Stress Management: When we understand that problems are a natural part of our life, which we cannot eliminate, only manage; this understanding makes us stress free.
Anger Management: We can manage anger by first understanding that anger, in itself, is not an evil, failure to control anger is an evil. And anger is nothing but a temporary reaction to a provocation, and it can subside if we d not react for a few seconds, simply keep quite.
i. What is the importance of time management?
Answer: Time management is an extremely important self-management skills that increases your productivity at home, at the workplace and in society. It helps you to be result-oriented, which is central to success.

j. How can you turn failure into success?
Answer: Almost all super achievers in history were super losers at first. Success always comes to those who are able to make failures stepping stones to progress. A positive personality does not lose courage from failure, but, subsequently, re-plans his course of action.