The document outlines ten essential life skills that individuals need to learn and enhance regardless of their background. These skills include managing relationships, effective communication, decision-making, financial management, and coping with life challenges. Each skill emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, goal setting, and understanding one's community and media influences.

1. 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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2. We have to learn and balance many
skills in life
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3. What Challenges are
you facing in life?
Personal
School
Work

5. 1. Learn, Live and Lead a healthy life
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6. 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

7. 2. Managing Relationships
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8. Character
Is
Power!
- Booker T. Washington

9. 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

10. 3. Learn the art of Effective
Communication
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11. THE BIGGEST
CHANGE YOU
CAN MAKE IS
YOUR ATTITUDE

12. 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,...

13. 4. Learn the art of Decision Making
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14. 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)

15. 5. Mastering Education
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16. Education vs Income

17. 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

18. 6. Coping with life
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19. How our thinking manages our emotions
Feelings
Thinking
Calm times Strong emotions

20. How can we deal with stress?

21. 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

22. 7. Art of Thinking
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23. 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

24. 8. Managing your finances
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25. 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

26. 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

28. 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

29. 10. Media and Community
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31. 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?

32. 10 Key Life Skills
2. Managing Relationships