Personality development Session for College students

To achieve overall success in life, one must possess a strong personality. While some people are born with it, others can shape up their personality if they work on themselves by attending personality development sessions.

Keeping this in mind, a follow-up personality development session was organized for Future Smiles college-going beneficiaries. In the first session of the program held in Dec 2014, students were told about goals and how to overcome anxieties related to them. In this follow-up session, students were told the importance of setting goals and overcoming obstacles to achieve them. The session was conducted by Ms. Anjali Sonawane who also gave examples of her personal life related to goal setting and achieving them.

The students were given hand-outs so that they could assess and write down their short-term as well as long-term goals. They were also asked to write down any obstacles that they might have to face while working towards those goals. Obstacles can either be internal like anxiety or external factors like parental or peer pressure. The speaker emphasized the importance of having clarity while setting goals. Also, one must be determined and prepared to make sacrifices in order to achieve the goals.

The writing down of the goals was followed by an exercise of visualization in which the students were asked to visualize the goals as well as the process involved to achieve them.  Post the visualization exercise, the students were asked to give feedback regarding their experience. As expected, the students were happy and satisfied as they could visualize their goals being achieved.

The final segment was on procrastination. Procrastination can be a dream killer. The students were taught different ways to overcome procrastination.

Overall, it was an effective session. The feedback of the students was very positive and the students gained a lot of insights about how to set and achieve goals.