This document discusses life skills, which are skills necessary for full participation in everyday life. It identifies several types of life skills, including decision making, problem solving, creative thinking, critical thinking, effective communication, interpersonal relationships, self-awareness, empathy, coping with stress, and coping with emotions. It provides brief definitions and explanations of some of these skills. Finally, it states that having life skills is essential for meeting challenges in life, especially given constant changes in the environment and global economies.

2.  WHAT IS LIFE SKILL ?
 TYPES OF LIFE SKILLS
 IMPORTANCE OF LIFE SKILLS
 LIFE SKILL QUOTES

3. A SKILLTHAT IS NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE
FOR FULL PARTICIPATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
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4.  Decision making
 Problem solving
 Creative thinking
 Critical thinking
 Effective communication
 Interpersonal relationships
 Self awareness
 Empathy
 Coping with stress
 Coping with emotions

5.  DECISION MAKING
 Decision-making is the process of
identifying and choosing alternatives
based on the values and preferences of
the decision-Maker.
 PROBLEM SOLVING
 Problem solving consists of using
generic or ad hoc methods, in
an orderly manner, for finding solutions
to problems
 CREATIVETHINKING
 Creative thinkingcan be stimulated
both by an unstructured process such as
brainstorming, and by a structured
process such as lateral thinking.

6.  CRITICALTHINKING
critical thinking means making clear, reasoned
judgments. During the process of critical
thinking, ideas should be reasoned, well
thought out, and judged
 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Effective communication is a key interpersonal skill and
learning how we can improve
our communication has many
benefits.Communication is a two way process, so
improving communication involves both how we
send and receive messages.
 INTERPERSONOL RELATIONSHIP
An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close
association or acquaintance between two or more
people that may range in duration from brief to
enduring.This association may be based on
inference, love, solidarity, regular business
interactions, or some other type of social
commitment.

7.  SELF AWARENESS
Self-awareness is the capacity
for introspection and the ability to recognize
oneself as an individual separate from the
environment and other individuals.
 Empathy
 Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel
what another person is experiencing from
within the other being's frame of reference,
i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's
position. Empathy is seeing with the eyes of
another, listening with the ears of another and
feelings with the heart of another.
 Coping with stress
 Coping with stress is the process by
which a person consciously attempts to
master, minimize, or tolerate stressors
and problems in life.

8. The importance of life skills
 In a constantly changing
environment, having life skills is
an essential part of being able to
meet the challenges of everyday
life.The dramatic changes in
global economies over the past
five years have been matched
with the transformation in
technology and these are all
impacting on education, the
workplace and our home life.