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JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 3

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1. Aim of the Module
Part of the topic section Entrepreneurship Lifestyle of the Self-Help Handbook, this module guides the
reader through a lifelong learning journey to reflect on questions like: Why We Need to Take
Responsibility for Our Own Experiences? How to Connect Our Dreams with Our Skills and a Market
Opportunity? How to Maximise Our Resources and Effort to Achieve Our Goals?

Having an entrepreneurial mindset means to develop a way of thinking that helps us to take ownership
and accept responsibility for our actions; to overcome challenges with resilience and openness to
change; to perform self-analysis and apply creativity, pragmatism and planning techniques in daily life;
to be proactive and maximise our strengths to achieve our goals.

Definitely an entrepreneurial lifestyle requires a constant need to improve our competences, learning
from our mistake and taking continuous action on our dream, ideas and personal/professional
projects.

“All our dreams can come true,

if we have the courage to pursue them. “

Walt Disney ©

1.2. Learning Objectives
By the end of this module, the learners will:

A. Understand why responsibility matters and what means to take ownership of owns
life
B. Describe short-term change in the todays’ life
C. Identify ways to be more flexible, applying principles of resilience and adaptability
D. Respond to change quickly and positively to deal with the uncertain
E. Practice creative thinking techniques on daily routine
F. Take a pragmatic approach to judge dreams and get things done
G. Distinguish between skills, strengths and interests
H. Strategic judge market opportunities based on own dreams and skills, strengths
and interests
I. Analyse and maximise resources to achieve owns goals
J. Recognise the characteristics of proactive people, exploring and cultivating a
proactive behaviour

1.3. Soft Skills

At the same time, this module will also contribute to raise develop and strength a set of important soft
skills, including: