Life skills are defined as psychosocial abilities for positive and adaptive behavior that allow persons to deal essentially and effectively with the challenges and demands of life.
Life skills are potentials and behaviors that support you and successfully deal with the events and challenges of daily routine in our life. They are also varied by a person’s age and by culture and they play a significant role in person’s life.
Here are some essential basic skills of life:
RESILIENCE AND ABILITY TO SURVIVE WITH PROBLEMS:
One of the few facts in life is that things will go incorrect. Learning how to grip these inevitable challenges with resilience and grace is essential.Here are some techniques for learning to encourage resilience and bounce back from challenges of life:
Making relationship with family members and friends.
Ignore seeing difficulties as insurmountable issues.
Change is parts of life accept it.
Make realistic goals and work on them punctually.
Take power of decision.
Nurture an optimistic view of yourself.
Keep hopeful outlook.
Look for options of self discovery, especially in hard circumstances.
Should take care of you by paying concentration and full attention to your feelings, emotions, wishes and needs.
These above life skills are extremely impactful. Becoming a good communicator will decrease the instances of tension and raise your potentiality to combat stress, critical thinking, empathy can build a better communicator and so on.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
Interpersonal skills are qualities and behaviors we express while interacting with people. They are observed to as one of the most sought after kinds of soft skills. Strong interpersonal skills are a gauge of success in every field of life especially in professional field, as benefits involve the potential to cooperate with colleagues, coworkers and workmates to solve complex and complicated problems as well as simply increasing your popularity around the people.
Good interpersonal skills contain:
Leadership
Empathy
Patience
Adaptability
Diplomacy
Mediation
Collaboration
Active listening
Issue solving
Conflict resolution
Interpersonal skills and communication are features we learn throughout our lives. Many people have a natural talent. They completely understand what happened with others, although without any information. What interpersonal skills are!
And that is the real beauty of interpersonal skills.
DECISION MAKING AND ISSUE SOLVING:
Everyone even rich persons are faced with challenges, difficulties, hurdles and problems in their lives. Not all of us are brilliant at handling these problems, however. Some misunderstanding the premise of an issue, other works themselves in circles and gets grasped in analysis paralysis.
Person should use these following ways to over the problems:
Explain the issue.
Establish the limitation and criteria.
Consider all the options/alternatives.
Find the best alternative.
This explains the skills needed to understand issues, detect solutions to them with the help of others or alone and then take action and solve them.
ASSERTIVENESS OR SELF CONTROL:
Assertiveness or self-control is the quality to honestly express your thinking, emotions, opinions, rights and perspectiveswithout undue anxiety, in such a way that does not break the rights of other people.
Being assertive we should consider the feelings, ideas and beliefs of others. Those who act assertively always respect the emotions, feelings and beliefs of others. Assertiveness has power to express feelings, desires and wishes appropriately, and is a major personal and interpersonal skill. In all interaction with people, whether at work place or at home, with colleagues or customers, with employers, assertiveness can support you to express yourself in a uncomplicated, intelligible, logical and reasonable way, without undermining other’s rights or your own.
If you don’t know about assertive, you might face:
Depression
Resentment
Frustration
Temper/Violence
Life skills have wide category because any skill that is beneficial in your life is known aslife skill. Life skills are critical to cultivate and learn, in order to have a best and better productive life. Although the good time to learn and develop life skills in during person’s youth, the second better time is right now.
Writer Bio: KINZA FAROOQ, Pakistan
