Self Management

Self Management:

The abilities to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations.

This includes the capacities to delay gratification, manage stress, and feel motivation and agency to accomplish personal and collective goals.

Self-management skills include:

• Regulating and expressing one’s emotions thoughtfully

• Demonstrating perseverance and resilience to overcome obstacles

• Sustaining healthy boundaries

• Applying strategies to reduce personal and interpersonal stress

• Setting and monitoring short-term and long-term goals

• Advocating for oneself and one’s needs

• Maintaining attention

• Using feedback constructively