10 life skills. 1. assessing your health evaluating your actions and behaviors that affect your...

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1. ASSESSING YOUR HEALTH

Evaluating your actions and behaviors that affect your health may help you make better decisions about yourself.

Evaluating your health can help you determine what you

need to do to be healthy.

2. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

Good communication skills include listening

and speaking effectively.

Good communication will help improve your

relationships with your family, friends,

teachers and other adults.

GOOD COMUNICATION is needed for

EVERY RELATIONSHIP!!!

3. PRACTICING WELLNESSPracticing healthy behaviors

daily can help you have good

life-long health.

Examples of healthy behaviors are getting enough sleep, choosing nutritious foods and avoiding risky behaviors.

4. COPINGDealing with problems or

trouble in an effective way.

This life skill can help you deal with difficult times and situations like depression,

stress, the loss of a loved one,

etc....

5. BEING A WISE CONSUMER

Anyone who buys

products or services

is a consumer.

Making good decisions when buying health products and

services will help improve your

health now and in the future.

6. EVALUATING MEDIA MESSAGES

Public forms of communication

such as TV, radio, internet,

newspaper are referred to as

media.

Media has a HUGE impact on what we

learn about the

world.

Knowing how to analyze media information can help you make better decisions about your health

7. COMMUNITY RESOURCESA resource is something you can use to help you

achieve a goal.

Health clinics, libraries and government agencies are examples of Community Resources.

Knowing where to find health information

in the community is beneficial.

8. MAKING GREAT DECISIONSLearning the GREAT decision making steps will help you make the right decisions for yourself.

These steps should be used when making

life-changing decisions.

What are some examples of life changing

decisions?

9. USING REFUSAL SKILLS

This life skill will provide you with different ways you can say “no” to something you do not want to do.

What would be some examples of when

you might need to use

10. SETTING GOALSGoals are directions

for your life.

Setting goals can help you stay focused on what you want to achieve. Short term

goals can be achieved

quickly and can lead to

accomplishing long term

goals.

It is important to