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10 Life Skills for a Healthy Life. #1: Assessing Your Health. Requires that you evaluate your actions and behaviors that affect your health Evaluating your health can help you determine what you need to do to be healthy. #2: Communicating Effectively.
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#1: Assessing Your Health • Requires that you evaluate your actions and behaviors that affect your health • Evaluating your health can help you determine what you need to do to be healthy.
#2: Communicating Effectively • This will teach you good communication skills like listening and speaking effectively. • This will help improve your relationships with your family, friends, teachers and other adults.
#3: Practicing Wellness • This skill will show you how practicing 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: Coping • Dealing with problems or trouble in an effective way. • This life skill can help you deal with emotions such as anger and depression during difficult times and situations such as the loss of a loved one.
#5: Being a Wise Consumer • Anyone who buys products or services is a consumer and needs to be able to make appropriate choices. • 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. • The media have a big impact on what we learn about the world. • Knowing how to analyze media information can help you make better decisions about your health.
#7: Using Community Resources • A resource is something you can use to help you achieve a goal or meet a need. • Health clinics, libraries and government agencies are examples of Community Resources. • Knowing where to find health information in the community is vital to keeping you healthy.
#8: Making GREAT Decisions • Learning the GREAT decision making steps will help you make the right decisions for yourself. • These steps should be used when making life-changing decisions.
GREAT Decision Making Steps • GIVE thought to the problem • REVIEW your choices • EVALUATE the consequences of each choice • ASSESS and choose the best choice • THINK it over afterward
#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. • Learning how to say “no” will help you make better decisions
#10: Setting Goals • Goals are directions for your life. • Setting goals can help you stay focused on what you want to achieve in the future. • Short term goals can be achieved quickly and can lead to accomplishing long term goals.