MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS

MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS

- Life Skills are a set of human abilities for adaptive and positive behavior which you must possess in order to be able to make the most out of your life by dealing effectively with the demands and challenges that you face every day in your life. This is because they enable you to know what to do, how to do it and when to do it. You can thus acquire such set of human skills through teaching like what I’m doing now, and through direct experience.

- When I say that life skills are your abilities for adaptive behavior, I mean that such skills can enable you to become flexible in your approach to life issues and that you can be able to adjust in different circumstances. In addition, when I say that life skills are your abilities for positive behavior, I imply that with such abilities you can be forward looking and find a ray of hope and opportunities to find solutions even in difficult situations.

- Therefore, because you want to live your life in full and lead a productive life with full knowledge of where to begin, then, life skills are indispensable for you. This is because there is so much information, programs, strategies and techniques out there concerning the same issues that can be overwhelming and hard for you to choose the right one, and also because what seems to work for another person may not necessarily work for you.

- It is thus important for you to pursue personal development through the acquisition of life skills so that you can be able to confidently face the various challenges that you encounter daily and be able to emerge victoriously from them. So, personal development is your pursuit to developing, honing and mastering the skills that help you become the best that you can, with all that you have, thus reaching for and realizing your full potential as a human being.

- For this reason, you don’t develop life skills within a day but it’s a lifelong process that continues throughout your life. This is because, the more you learn and practice these skills the more you are able to acquire them, make them become part and parcel of your life and enjoy their benefits as you successfully pass-through various situations in your life.

- Therefore, if you want to accomplish anything in life and realize your full potential, you must have some life skills because they enable you to do several things as exlained in this video: