One valuable life skill is self-awareness. It is very useful to know ourselves. Maybe somewhat un-intuitively, knowing ourselves also helps us to communicate with others more effectively, and to be more empathetic of others. One aspect of self-awareness is to be able to find out more about …
Setting Goals
Why goals? Goals give us direction – they’re like a roadmap. Goals help us focus our efforts on what matters to us, and avoid wasting time with “side roads” that don’t help us get to the desired result. Setting goals enables us to positively affect our future. There are many different areas …
More than New Year’s Resolutions
As we begin a new year, it’s important to think of learning Life Skills in the same way we would think of learning other things. Part of learning is knowledge of facts or ideas that prompt us to behave differently. For example, we learn that eating too much sugar can …
Welcome to Life Skills Weekly!
Why life skills? What are life skills, anyway? Why learn or practice life skills? A definition of life skills can be about as simple or as complicated as we wish to make it. Here are a few: Skills you need to make the most out of lifeAny skill that is useful for your lifeSkills that helps …