10 Key Life Skills

What ever your faith, or age, or background, or marital status there are some skills you/we need to learn and

upgrade throughout life.

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We have to learn and balance many skills in life

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What Challenges are you facing in life?

Personal School Work

1. Learn, Live and Lead a healthy life

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1. Learn, Live and Lead a healthy life

• a) your diet: eating nutritious, wholesome food

• b) your sleep: practicing good sleep hygiene • c) your body: treating your body with respect

and giving it exercise • d) your spirit/ruh: Spirituality combined with

faith • e) avoiding risky behaviors

2. Managing Relationships

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Character Is

Power!

- Booker T. Washington

2. Managing Relationships

• a) Identifying expectations • b) Managing inter-personal relationships • c) Knowing you, your family, those you

interact with and God. • d) Understanding human nature

3. Learn the art of Effective Communication

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THE BIGGEST

CHANGE YOU CAN MAKE IS YOUR ATTITUDE

3. Learn the art of Effective Communication

• a) Starts with active attentive listening • b) Followed by articulation • c) Learning what to say what not to say • d) When best to say it • e) Best way to communicate with someone,

direct, indirect, email,...

4. Learn the art of Decision Making

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4. Learn the art of Decision Making

• a) Learning which decisions are more important than others

• b) How to research (Online, talking to people,...)

• c) Determining needs vs wants, important vs urgent

• d) Process and criteria to decide • e) Doing Istikhara (asking God for guidance)

5. Mastering Education

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Education vs Income

5. Mastering Education

• a) Understand that education is a life-long process

• b) Know the benefits and harms of technology

• c) Learn how to master the right technologies

6. Coping with life

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How our thinking manages our emotions

Feelings

Thinking

Calm times Strong emotions

How can we deal with stress?

6. Coping with life

• a) Learning about how to deal with daily and life-changing challenges/problems

• b) At school, work, with family, friends, adversaries

• c) How to manage your internal dialogue • d) Knowing your values and how to use them

to guide you • e) Managing stress

7. Art of Thinking

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7. Art of Thinking

• a) How to do Critical thinking • b) How to be Creative • c) How to be Self-aware • e) How to show Empathy

8. Managing your finances

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8. Managing your finances

• a) Learn how to become a wise consumer • b) Understand quality vs price • c) Creating a budget • d) When to save, when to spend, how much

to spend • e) Understand the role of advertising and how

it influences you

9. Goal Setting

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Excellence Is A Habit We are what we repeatedly do;

excellence then is not an act,

but a habit.

- Aristotle

9. Goal Setting

• a) Identifying short term and long term goals • b) Understanding that time is the greatest

asset you have • c) Always using your energy at the right time

to be the most productive • d) Knowing what to take on and what to say

"no" to

10. Media and Community

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10. Media and Community

• a) Understand the psychology of how the media influences you

• b) Not only what is being said but why and how

• c) What isn't being said is just as important as what is being said

• d) What are you doing for the common good in your community?

10 Key Life Skills

2. Managing Relationships