Self-Concept and Self-Motivation: Building a Positive Foundation

1. Self-concept formation and self-motivation Unit 1: Development of the self in society. P1

2. Self-Concept • General idea of who you are. • Formed by putting together everything you know, think an believe about yourself. • Based on your thoughts, relationships, experiences. • How you see yourself, what you think about yourself. • Can change

3. Positive self-concept: • Gives you confidence to try new things and see failures as opportunities to learn. • Makes you secure to make friends, make own decisions and manage problems. • Builds solid foundation for success in life!

4. Motivation • Motivation: reason for doing something in a particular way External motivation vs internal motivation.

5. External • fear and reward • Donkey… Carrot and stick

6. Internal: Self-motivation If you are self-motivated, you are motivated to achieve something because of your own interest without being influenced to do so by other people. • Self-motivation: your ability to commit to meeting a goal because it is something you want to do. • Most powerful motivator.

7. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-MOTIVATION AND SELF-CONCEPT • Self-motivation helps you to feel good about yourself, it helps you to build a positive self-concept. • If you feel good about yourself, you will want to be the best “you” possible. • Wanting to be the best “you” possible is the root of self-motivation. • If you have a healthy self-concept, you will be self-motivated to aim for success in whatever you do.

8. FACTORS which may influence your self-concept and -motivation. • Family • Culture and religion • Community and environment • Friends and peers • Media READ P 3-8 IN TEXT BOOK

9. Complete activity 1.2 on p3 in your book. • Summarise p 3-8: Five factors

10. POSITIVE SELF-TALK • All relationships and experiences with your family, culture, religion, community, friends, peers, media contribute to your self-concept. • Influence on self-concept: + or - • You can overcome negative messages – one of the best ways is by using positive self-talk MUSCLE MEMORY – TENNIS COURT

11. POSITIVE SELF-TALK IS ABOUT: • Speaking to yourself respectfully • Focusing on the positive aspects of yourself and praising yourself for your achievements • Believing in yourself • Concentration on your unique strengths and abilities • Treating yourself with kindness and encouragement • Being gentle with yourself and forgiving yourself when you make mistakes • Seeing any mistakes as opportunities to learn

12. UNIQUE: There is no one else in the world like you, no one with your unique combination of relationships, experience, … PROUD OF MY ACHIEVEMENTS: Your achievements are the goals you reach through hard work and effort. Celebrate success. POTENTIAL: Power you can draw from your natural talents, abilities and strengths to excel

13. STRATEGIES AND SKILLS TO EXTEND YOUR PERSONAL POTENTIAL Get to know yourself Set goals Focus on the positive

14. Complete activity 1.6 on p 12 • Summarise p 9-12