LOOKS BACK

LOOKS BACK

"We must become the change we want to see "

                                                              -Mahatma Gandhi-

At first day of PPD session I had no idea about what was PPD. That was the beginning and now I'm explaining you all how great and valuable that subject was.

 Personal Progress and Development is known as PPD. I got improve my skills thanks to PPD.

                                       

 I had a chance to add so many things to my life and take my life into a whole new level.We did both individual and group activities.We created a blog about each day and shared our experiences with others and also explained achievements of new skills and improving them.

Some of the activities which we did are lava river,paper tower, stand on the paper ,barter puzzle , life goal etc. Below mentioned are the things we gained and improved from these PPD sessions.

• time management                                
• self confidence                          
• communication skills
• leadership
• problem-solving ability
• organising
• face unexpected situations                    
• help each other 
• have positive attitudes
• improve potential
• achieve our goals

At the we had a chance to have a out bound training for 2 days in Trincomalee navy camp.It was a new great experience for all of us .We learned new things and enjoyed every second of it.
We had a wonderful dinner with the navy officers and had a chance to visit navy museum as well.
                                         

So at last when I look back from the position where I am now I can say that I have climbed my ladder of life a bit with the help of these skills that I learned and improved each day.
                                               

BARTER PUZZLE

Barter Puzzle

Puzzles are especially good for improving short-term memory. And also improves the ability to solve problems creatively. Puzzles help to develop our visual special skills aswell. It also may help to lower our stress levels and improve our attention.

We solved a Barta puzzle in our PPD session.

We solved a puzzle of 100 pieces and 20 pieces of our puzzle are mixed with other two groups and we had to negotiate with them to get our pieces.

We had a time frame of 30 minutes. In the middle of sloving the puzzle the instructor gave us a distraction. We successfully faced all the situations but unable to solve within the time.

There were 3 groups. group no3  won the game.

Things that we learned,

• Time management.
• How to work as a group.
• How to negotiate with others.
• How to protect our own things.
• How to face unexpected situation.

LIFE GOALS

Life Goals

                    "The harder you work for reach your goals
                      The greater you'll feel when you achieve those"

A goal is an idea of future or decided result that a person or group of people envisions, plans and commit to achieve.

We can devide goals into several categories. For an example goals can be devided as
short term goals (within 5 years)
long term goals (more than 5 years)

Not only that but we can devide goals into 3 parts
1-personal goals
2-academic goals
3-professional goals

we did a goal setting activity for our ppd session. my future goals are mentioned below according to categories.

• Personal Goals  

Travel Around Europe
Watch a football match at old trafford-Manchester.
Build a house
Get a car
Have a good wife and happy life

• Academic Goals 

Complete my degree with a higher GPA

• Professional Goals

To be a skillful software engineer
Start my own bussiness apart from my job.