Life Skills
Life Skills Overview
Life skills basically help people become successful in their personal as well as professional spheres. Life skills are divided into several classifications namely: essential life skills, life skills for success, financial management skills, problem solving skills, leadership skills, critical life skills, negotiation skills, critical thinking skills, and job skills.
Life skills are hardly taught in school, and for the most part, people learn it through trainings and experience.Life skills training series will help you become more familiar with different life skills so that you will be better equipped to handle difficulties, improve yourself, overcome your weaknesses, and be able to fit well in any environment.
This section is all about giving you a clear and concise overview on each essential life skill that you need to know about.
Training Objectives
By the end of this self-paced training, you will be able to:
Learn the skills that are considered essential for success
Learn the eight skills that are considered highly important life skills
Learn the skill that will help you address problems and make decisions effectively
Learn finance management skills
Learn critical thinking skills
Learn adaptation skills
Learn leadership skills
Learn how to work with people and develop people skills
Learn thinking skills
Learn how to gain confidence and become assertive
Learn the needed job skills
Target Audience
Life Skills training ideal for those who aspire to improve themselves and aim to become a better and well-equipped individual.
In this article, you will learn some of the essential life skills which are critical to self mastery, skills which most educational institutions today do not bother to teach their students. 1. Living a balanced life – When you live a life that is out-of-balance, you are leading a life which is not wholly fulfilling, one in which you are probably not happy. While too much work is often bad, too much leisure and pleasure can equally be debilitating. To be truly successful, one must have a high degree of balance. They must know when to work, when to relax,…
November 10, 2008
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There are a number of skills that you will need to develop in life if you wish to be successful with anything, and the bad news is that most of these skills are not taught in college. One skill that is extremely valuable is public speaking. If you have the ability to speak in a persuasive manner, and convey your ideas to an audience, then you have the potential to achieve an enormous amount of success. Those who are good with public speaking tend to be those that have confidence in themselves, and they tend to be people who are…
November 12, 2008
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While graduating from college can allow you to enter an occupation where you can earn a competitive salary, you need more than just a degree to get ahead in today’s world. While a college education can provide you with many things, the one thing that it often does not provide is life skills. Life skills are defined as skills which can provide you with a better perspective on life, skills which can allow you to maintain a higher awareness of both yourself and the world around you. In this article, I will be going over eight life skills which can…
November 13, 2008
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There are a number of vocational programs today which act as alternatives to the much more expensive colleges and universities. The key difference between vocational programs and college is that many of these programs are specifically designed to teach their students specific skills. For example, when a student decides to take a vocational course in carpentry, this is the skill that they will be taught. They will not have to worry about the pre-requisites which are so common in the college system today. At the same time, life skills are also important to learn as well, since they are necessary…
November 14, 2008
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Life skills are some of the most important skills you can have. One thing which separates life skills from the skills that we learn in school is that life skills tend to be things which are hard to teach in a classroom, skills that will most often be learned through experience alone. Handling Work One such skill is learning how to handle work. In real life scenario, anytime that you think that you have got to a point in a project where you think it is fully completed, there will always be more work that can be done, extra effort…
November 17, 2008
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While educational system is an important and an integral part of the society, it has become heavily overrated. Statistics have shown that many of the people who graduate from college often use only a small percentage of the skills that they learned from college. When you consider the huge amount that is spent on tuition fee, one may think of learning as much or more from college. The monopoly on education that college has, has ensured that many high paying jobs will hire only those who have a degree from a recognized college or university, which may force students to…
November 20, 2008
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In theory, making decisions sounds really easy: you are given two or more options to choose from, and you simply decide which option you think is best for you. However, in reality, making decisions can become much more complicated than this. Your ability to make the right decisions can mean the difference between enormous success and mediocrity, and it is a critical life skill that needs to be learnt to perfection. While making basic decisions, such as which flavor of ice cream to buy, are relatively simple, things become complicated when you begin making decisions that can affect others negatively,…
November 21, 2008
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Money makes the world go around, and while there have been people who have said that "money does not bring happiness", the reality is that those who do not master the financial game will live a life full of uncertainty, poverty, and worst of all: an inability to truly reach their potential as human beings. The cold hard truth is that we all want to be rich, but statistics and economics show that only a handful of us will ever reach it; the majority will simply always be out of reach. One reason for this is an inability to properly…
November 24, 2008
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Of all the life skills that you must master in order to gain long term success, the ability to think critically is very important. While college and educational systems do emphasize on objective thinking to a degree, not everyone educate their students on the importance of thinking critically. First, let us go over the definition of critical thinking. To think critically is to take time to analyze, discern, and evaluate the world around you. To be a successful critical thinker, you must be able to reflect on various situations in order to come up with a prudent judgment that is…
November 25, 2008
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Problems are something that we all have; no person on this planet, no matter how rich or famous they are, can avoid problems, whether professional or personal. The one thing that most of us figure out early on is that trying to reach any type of goal often requires us to surmount a number of difficulties, some of which may seem insurmountable when we first encounter them. Problems exist as a result of Murphy’s Law: if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Once Murphy’s Law is put into effect in the real world, it becomes easy to see…
November 26, 2008
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We all have to negotiate on a regular basis in our daily life, the ability to negotiate is a skill which everyone needs to be adept in order to succeed. The cool thing about negotiating is that it is a skill that can be quite fun to learn, it is critically important, and should always be taken seriously. Negotiation is a valuable skill because it can give you an advantage in life, but like any skill of value, you must practice in order to excel at it. The central thing to remember about negotiation is that anything under the sun…
November 27, 2008
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Leadership is one of those skills that is often hard for everyone to learn in school; many believe that you either have it or you do not. While there may be some truth to this, it is possible for any individual to become an effective leader, so long as they cultivate the many traits and views that successful leaders have. While there are many definitions which are used to describe leadership, it is "the ability to persuade a group of people in a manner which allows a specific goal to be reached." While there are many different types of leaders,…
November 30, 2008
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The legendary actor and martial artist Bruce Lee is famous for speaking about the flexibility of water, and how everyone should strive to be like it. After all, water does not have any set shape, and it conforms to whatever container it is placed in. Not only is this statement applicable to the martial arts, but it is also connected to one essential life skill: the ability to adapt to change. Being able to adapt to the changing times is one of the most essential skills that a person can have. Those who are not able to adapt, are very…
To be successful in life, you are required to work with people. While college courses sometimes give students projects that must be completed within groups, in reality you are required to do more than simply be capable of working in a team. Not only must you be able to work in a group, but you must also be capable of dealing with people, including those who are difficult. Unfortunately, there are certain types of people in our world today who like to take advantage of others. When meeting you, they will instantly size you up to determine whether or not…
One of the most important life skills that you can have is the ability to control your thoughts. While this may see relatively simple, it is much harder than what meets the eye. We live in a day and age where our minds are constantly being bombarded with information. From television ads to billboards, radios, and the internet, we are constantly being fed a stream of information, and much of this information is absolutely worthless. The average man is so caught up in the daily affairs of their lives that they seldom take the time to think critically about the…
The ability to think long term is a critical skill and only few people realise this. When you talk to most people, one thing that you will notice is that many of them are incredibly caught up in the present. At the very best, they may plan a few weeks or months into the future, but most people do not think long term at all. Despite this, when you look at some of history’s most successful people, one thing that you will find is that many of them thought long term, and planned for the future, as opposed to being caught…
December 14, 2008
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One thing that few of us can deny is the importance of a college education. After all, you learn valuable skills which can allow you to live a much more fulfilling life, one in which you are able to earn a high salary while working in a field you enjoy. By graduating from college, you embark on a career, as opposed to just having a nine to five job. At the same time, college is seriously lacking when it comes to providing you with experience and confidence which is necessary to get ahead in the aggressive and icy cold business…
December 20, 2008
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Why Shyness is a Trait which Must be Overcome Shyness is a common problem which is often seen as being negative. No matter who you are, there are times in your life when you will become shy, and it is a trait that can be frustrating because it can limit you. Before we talk more about this subject, let us realise why being shy is not cute, and can actually cause a number of different problems in your life if you are unable to overcome it. First off, a number of statistics have shown that almost half the entire U.S. population is shy. …
December 27, 2008
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There is no specific number of life skills which are important for you to learn, and the life skills which are important to you may not be as important to someone else. This is one of the reasons why many colleges fail to teach students these skills, because the skills are vague and may vary in importance from one person to another. However, many of these life skills are universally important, and if you do not develop them, you may find it difficult to achieve success in your life. The Art of Being Assertive There are two types of people…
December 30, 2008
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No matter who you are, or where you live, you are subject to laws. There are many types of laws, and in some cases too many. While only those who attend law school can learn the bulk of the many laws which we have, it is important for non law school students to become familiar with the basic rules and regulations for learning it is an important life skill. Much like finance, while laws are taught in school, it is only taught to those students who are working towards becoming lawyers and attorneys. The rest of us are largely left…
