Manage oneself: 8 best ways

Ali Rizwan
4 min readMay 12, 2020

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Managing oneself is important as you manage your business, you manage your business team subject to if you are a manager. As you are very keen on your work and your organization work you always keen to grow yourself in an organization.

Being a manager it is important to grow yourself continuously in an organization. All these can’t be possible if you do not manage oneself and your daily work regarding to manage yourself. You can be a successful manager if you are keen to manage yourself. Managing yourself is important as it leads your success in a company whether as a manager, director, or as an employer.

By managing oneself is guaranteed to your success in the professional field. You can be successful in the professional field without managing yourself but if you do not manage yourself how would you expect that you could manage a team.

Here are the 8 best ways to manage oneself

Self-Awareness

Self -Awareness is very essential in managing oneself. If you are well aware of yourself you can decide easily which leadership styles perfect for you, you can understand which strengths you have to perform, and most importantly what passion you have what interests you have.

This will help you to build yourself more authentically. You can be easily identified your skills leadership skills, team managing skills, management skills, and many more. The success of your life up to you. Only you are responsible for yourself.

Be a hard workman

Work Hard is the key to success. Not only the hard work but also the consistently hard work and work with patience is also important. You have a lot of examples of many people people who failed in the early stages of their life but they didn’t give up they work with consistently with patience and they succeeded in their life.

Doesn’t matter what field you have the thing which would matter is that your hard work related to that field. Don’t be shy about hard work. If you have a mission, a goal, and if you are a hard worker no one could stop you from being a successful person in your life. Be very loyal to your work always. It will take time but if you manage oneself it wouldn’t stop you to become successful.

Be healthy

You are well aware of yourself and also you are a hard worker but if you don’t pay attention to your health it will be costly for you. Be a hard worker but not such type of hard worker who always be with his work don’t pay attention to health. Over hardworking is also a barrier to managing oneself. You could be sick and your work could late that is not good for yourself.

So, be a limited work harder and pay attention to your health as your health also plays an important role in your success. Be hygiene and do exercise daily.

Always be honest

Honesty is the most important thing while you manage yourself. Always speak the truth as honesty is the best policy. Honesty gives you the confidence of facing the difficulties that may come to your success. If you are a Muslim do offer prayer and if you are a Non-Muslim do worship according to your religion.

Any organization that hires you they expect honesty from you. Truth also shows that you have good ethics. There are some secrets of every organization as being the employer of that organization you have to keep the secrets.

Decision-Making Ability

Don’t be afraid to make a decision. Make it and let anything happened. If your decision went wrong don’t worry at least you have a backup that next time wouldn’t try to do a decision like previous. Make a decision and practice it of your decision it will help you to make your decision ability strong especially when you are a manager. You can also take decisions while managing oneself what to do or what not to do what would enhance your ability. Not only as a professional you can also enhance your decision ability at home.

Strong decision-making ability leads an organization towards success and you can make your decision-making ability strong by taking a decision and put it into the form of practice.

Always enjoy your work

If you work according to your passion you will always enjoy it. Don’t be bored with anything because it could disturb you from your work. You can be successful in managing oneself if you work with your passion. If you don’t work with passion you may lose your passion for work and it will not disturb you to enjoy from the work.

Do enjoy your work and be happy with your work it will give you satisfaction and confidence to do work.

Be Positive

Don’t give bad comments for anything all the time because by doing this your thinking could be in a negative attitude. You may lose your passion for your work. Manage yourself in such a way that your brain be always positive. Stay away from negative people let remain as they are.

If you have a positive attitude it will affect largely on your work and your organization it will help to manage your team and your relationship with other employees in an organization.

Analysis the whole day activity

Before going to bed repeat your whole day activity in your mind. Think that which thing should be correct or I can do that with more potential. If you did anything wrong punish yourself and make a promise with yourself that you will not do this again. If you repeat these mistakes again and again you couldn’t be able to manage oneself efficiently.

Manage oneself is the key to success in every field of life not only in the professional field but also teach you the way of living.

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Ali Rizwan
Ali Rizwan

Written by Ali Rizwan

Ali Rizwan is a content writer in Pakistan and 22 years old.

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