Life on earth during this century has become more complicated and people have a tendency to forget the important part of life. People are very much confined to work culture as a result they do not have time to think about themselves. To be effective in life one must learn to do self review that would help to be focused in life. It is good introduce technique of self review in a simple way in schools too, so that the children learn the art of self review in school days itself; it will help them go long way motivating themselves towards better life in the future.
First and foremost children must learn to understand the negative feelings what they come across and must know how to better handle them. If they are taught how to handle emotional feelings in a positive way then they can achieve a lot with regard to self –control. The followings are few major items they may come across in school days. Explain the children with your own experiences what is all about and how they need to handle the situations for better, some of the negative areas in life.
- Being Anxious
Being anxious will bring certain amount of low- self confidence in doing things. I t will create unnecessary fear that would make the progress stagnate. One should be ready to face the reality of life and find solutions for the problems.
- Being Unhappy
Life is both sides of one coin, you will always face happy moments and sad moments, learn to take them up both in a positive way. Never feel unhappy about the things that go out of your way. Which mean you have the best in you which are yet to be discovered? Learn to be happy even worst of situations that will put in you in positive side.
- Feeling of loneliness
This is one of the major blocks that everyone in life goes though in the journey of life. This feeling of loneliness sometime would make a person worst even will lead to suicide. The children need to be taught to channelize the loneliness into work culture which would keep them busy not worry over post events.
- Anger
As Buddha said anger is not a sin but getting angry is a sin. Today the children, adults, even elderly people get angry even for small things when it goes wrong. This would make even the best person worst. So when you get angry learn to count numbers 1 to 10, by the time your anger will subside.
- Fear
Another big problem today the modern society faces is fear. This sometimes kills the talents, skills, abilities of the young and creative minds. Fear at times makes the person however he/she is talented to do things worst. Well in schools children should be given lots of activities that makes them build their confidence without fear.
- Depressed
Depression often people face because things does not go the way they have planned. At times failure, disappointment, not able to meet the expectations of oneself, society, people around, in the case of children studies becomes a big botheration the leads them to depression. Make the child understand depression only for a short period of time, by worrying over it will never help them grow in the positive side.
- Loss of interest in life
The children may find life too boring and may lack interest in life to due to too much of pressure from all sides. It is very important that children need to be encouraged to lead a goal focused life that they grow with aims and objectives that would keep them tread successful life.
- Sociable
Today’s modern generation need to be taught about being sociable. Our nature of life style slowly turning to be individualism, as a result children of today tend to forget the richness of social being. Having good relationship with people around is almost lost. The children of today may be good at using social media but they need to be taught real social life.
- Sense of Personal growth
As human beings we are created with uniqueness with lots of hidden talents, but often we tend to compare ourselves with others make life more miserable. In the case of children it is even worst that they very easily carried out with comparisons. Make the children understand to discover more of oneself than comparing with others.
- Cheerful
Smiles travels miles making others smile, it ripples and moves among the globe making everyone to be cheerful. A cheerful personality always affects others, but today when we look at children they are more burdened with studies, pressure of result, marks etc.. this makes them less cheerful. Make the child understand being cheerful will lighten the situations for better learning.
- Sense of responsibility
This is one of the major needs of time, that today’s modern generation need to be taught a sense of responsibility. Being responsible is a noble virtue a child must learn in younger days. School is a best platform for the same.
- Loving
In a fast changing world of today due to materialistic growth and science inventions, the love for the persons transferred to materiel (things). People of these modern times started to love things than people. People must find joy, happiness, fulfillment in people than things around. Instill in the mind of the child love for people not for materiel things.
- Prayer life
Devotion to God is another important aspect in human life. Due to science and technology we have seen the highest development in all the spear of life. As a result man is slowly forgetting God element in life. Whatever the growth the society has seen but being prayerful always will lead human life to perfection. So let the child have love for prayer, meditation which is our rich tradition.
- Being Truthful
As said “truth will set you free” we foresee confusions, fights, misunderstandings among people, nations due to lack of practice of truth among people. Learning the art of being truthful is another important virtue, which children need to be encouraged with.
- Moral courage
A person can be courageous when he/she is morally right. If the child at young age learns the right moral that would keep him/her grow in the right path of life. Today moral courage is the need of the hour.
- Hard- work
Any personality can become successful if they have the taste for hard work. The child in the young age itself must be taught about importance of hard work that would lead them to success. Good habit of hard work should become part of life.
- Self –obedience
Among all the virtues obedience is the fine virtue that makes a person fine human being. Learning to work according to conscious and being self- obedient will make a person well loved among people. Self –obedience should not come from the force of external rather it should evolve from internal.
- Attention seeking
One must self –review this quality of attention seeking. Generally it does not help the person to grow naturally. This practice of attention seeking will lead often doing things for sake of people. When people don’t appreciate you become low-self-esteemed personality. Teach the child to grow naturally and being responsible in doing things.
- Feeling of guilt
When mistakes are done normal tendency of the person to feel guilty about it, it very true and natural, but at the same time never clink on to the same guilt feeling that leads worst. So learn the art of feeling positive.
- Hyper sensitive
Kids of today are hyper sensitive in doing things. As a result they don’t see foresee sometime that leads them to do wrong move. Being hyper sensitive may at times make things mess in life too.
- Tension
Tension may be due to things not working according to the way one wants. But when we look into life style, food habit, living environment makes situation from bad to worst. Children also need to be taught how to overcome tensed situation in life.
Dear friends I am sure these 21 simple tips on self- Audit would help the individual to see which are the areas in life needs to be handled in a better way. It will be very useful for children it we instill in the young minds about these realities of life at the younger age, thus it will lead them to bright future. Learning good virtues will create a new young minds for nation and world at large.
