Skills to Personal Power

1. Skills to Personal Power • Self-Esteem • Recognizing and accepting your inherent worth and value, identifying your particular talents, focusing on the positive in situations, operating personally and interpersonally with integrity, and using mistakes to learn how to do it more effectively next time. This produces the confidence to know you can handle any situation effectively in ways that maintain dignity and respect for yourself and others. • You have self-assurance • You know what you do well • You take better care of yourself • It fosters a can-do attitude • It promotes healthy relationships • It is easier say and think positively instead of negatively. • Relating Effectively • Interacting with others in ways that increase mutual understanding and cooperation and decrease potential conflicts. • People understand you better • You understand others better • You get along with others better • You have more chances of getting what you want • It reduces conflict with others • You have fewer fights • It helps people feel less shy

2. Skills to Personal Power • Responsibility • Being responsible is taking ownership (being accountable) for your own statements and actions. It is recognizing that your attitudes and behaviors influence what happens to you and what you accomplish or get in life. • You have more control of your life. • You have more influence over what happens to you • You realize that you have choices • You realize other people can’t MAKE you feel things. • Problem-Solving/Goal Setting • The ability to resolve in a positive and productive way situations that bother you • Lets you get a painful situation resolved instead of having it drag on and on • Makes life easier • Reduces the number of and intensity of problems • It gives you control of your life.