Personal Quality 6 ve Lale Mevsimi

–   Know what makes you feel stressed. Make a plan to remove them, diminish their negative effects or learn to live with them.

–   Get to know your body’s stress signals. Learn to pay attention to what your body tells you.

–   It’s a question of dealing with the cause of your stress signals, not just the symptoms.

–   Control your breathing. It is impossible to breathe calmly and be very stressed at the same time.

–   Relax your muscles. Choose a method you enjoy.

Use long-term stress control methods:

* establish good sleeping habits

* take small breaks in between activités

* exercise regularly

* eat properly – avoid becoming overweight

* organise your day so you can maintain control.

–    Your personal quality is closely connected to your ethics: your moral sense or the way you treat other people.

–    Your self-esteem is strengthened every time you demonstrate, in words, attitude and action, what you believe to be correct.

–    Be loyal to the people in your life. Make sure they can trust you, count on you and have complete confidence in you.

* Keep your promises – meet your deadlines.

* Talk to people not about them.

* Admit your mistakes. Don’t try to rationalize them or blame other people.

* Don’t spread rumors

* Don’t make disparaging remarks about people who are not present.

* Don’t criticize a person while other people are present.

* Don’t air disagreements with your family, friends etc. in public.

* Defend others against unreasonable attacks.

* Say what you believe.

* Don’t pretend other people’s ideas are your own. Base your progress on your own performance.

* Explain things openly and honestly. Don’t exaggerate. Don’t lie. Don’t try to hide things. Don’t keep things “secret”.

* Don’t postpone unpleasant decisions or bad news. Be kind, prompt and straightforward.

–    When your AP level is high, you indirectly help raise the quality level of those around you.

–    Fight mediocrity – both in yourself and in those around you.

–    If you are not satisfied with the quality of something, say so. Bring the lack of quality to the person’s attention in a positive and constructive way. Make suggestions as how to improve the quality.

–    Do the job and check the quality of what you’ve done.

–    Get others to check their own work-then you won’t have to do it.

–    Check your own work – then other’s won’t have to check you.

–    You should always be able to say about your own work:

      * I checked it

      * The quality is OK

      * I thought carefully about this assignment

      * I did my best

      * I’m proud of it

      * And I’m proud to put my name on it.

–    The children have the best chance of developing a high IP level in surroundings characterized by:

       * love

       * tolerance

       * trust

       * honesty

       * openness

       * clearly defined goals

       * clearly defined limits

       * consistency

       * people with high AP levels.