10 Life Skills for a Healthy Life

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10Life Skills for a Healthy Life
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.