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Skills for a Healthy Lifestyle

 Skills for a Healthy Lifestyle

Collaborate: To work together with a group or another person. Consequence: A result of your actions and decisions. Consumer: A person who buys products or services.

Coping: Dealing with problems and troubles in an effective way. Life Skill: A tool for building a healthy lifestyle.

Assessing your health: This life skill will help you assess your actions, behaviours, and health, as well as enable you to find out what you need to do to improve your health.

Being a wise consumer: This life skill will help you make good decisions when buying health products and services.

Communicating effectively: This life skill will teach you good communication skills, which include knowing how to listen and speak effectively. These skills will help you improve your relationships with classmates, family, friends, teachers, and others.

Coping: This skill will help you deal with difficult situations and times and with emotions such as anger, depression, and loss.

Evaluating media messages: This skill will help you analyze media messages and make the best possible decision as it relates to your health.

Making great decisions: This skill will help you make the right decisions that will most effectively help you lead your most healthy lifestyle.

Practicing wellness: This life skill will show you how to practice healthy behaviours daily so you can have good life-long health. Examples include a nutritious diet, avoiding risky behaviours, and getting sleep.

Setting goals: This skill will help you to set attainable goals and with tips to reach those goals.

Using community resources: This skill will help you find community services and help you understand how they can assist you.

Using refusal skills: This skill will help you with different ways to say 'no' to something you do not want to do.


 Media: All public forms of communication, such as advertisements, internet, and radio. Resource: Something that you can use to achieve a goal.

Making decisions is a daily endeavor. Making snap decisions without really thinking them through is always the easy thing to do. If you make impulsive decisions, it can lead to negative consequences. The decisions you make should always promote the health of your community, your family, and yourself. GREAT decision makers use GREAT:

GIVE thought to the problem: give time to pause and think before making any decisions.

REVIEW your choices: There will be more than one choice in most decisions you make. Some choices are bad, and some are good. Think about all the choices before choosing your direction.

EVALUATE the consequences of each choice: Each choice, whether bad or good, will have consequences. Each consequence will have an effect on your health. This evaluation process should be utilized before any decision is made.

ASSESS and choose the best choice: Once the evaluation process is concluded, make the best decisions for you and your health moving forward.

THINK it over afterward: Once the decision is made, and consequences are rendered, relive the decision for any future similar choices.

At times, you will make mistakes when you make decisions. You should:

Admit you made a poor decision. When you admit you made a mistake, you take responsibility for what you've done.

Think about who you can talk to about the problem. Usually, a close friend, parent, school counselor, or teacher can help you.

Finally, do your best to correct the situation. You may need to apologize to someone you hurt, leave the situation, or tell someone about an unsafe situation.

Direct pressure: The pressure that results from someone trying to convince you to do something you wouldn't normally do.


 Indirect pressure: The pressure that results from being swayed to do something because the people you look up to are doing it.

Negative influences: Being influenced to do something you don't want to do. It can be unhealthy and unsafe. An example would be drinking, smoking, or trying an illegal drug because you feel it makes you closer to your friends.

Peer pressure: A feeling that you should do something because it is what your friends want.

Positive influences: Being influenced to improve yourself and having positive role models is positive. An example would be joining the track team because your friends run track. Being on a track team would inevitably improve your overall health.

Refusal skill: A strategy to avoid doing something you don't want to do.

Direct pressure: bribery, explanation, persuasion, put-downs, teasing, threats.

Indirect pressure: advertising, famous people, popular people, radio, role models, television.

Refusal skills: blaming someone else, changing the subject, giving a reason, ignoring the pressure or request, leaving the situation, making a joke out of the situation, making an excuse, saying 'no', suggesting something else to do, or teaming up with someone else in a different group.

Action plan: A set of directions that will help you reach your goals.

Goal: Something that you hope to achieve and work toward. All goals should be safe, sensible, specific, and supported.

Long-term goal: Goals that cannot be achieved quickly (takes months or years). Short-term goal: Goals that can be achieved quickly (takes days or weeks).


 Skills for a Healthy Lifestyle

Collaborate: To work together with a group or another person. Consequence: A result of your actions and decisions. Consumer: A person who buys products or services.

Coping: Dealing with problems and troubles in an effective way. Life Skill: A tool for building a healthy lifestyle.

Assessing your health: This life skill will help you assess your actions, behaviours, and health, as well as enable you to find out what you need to do to improve your health.

Being a wise consumer: This life skill will help you make good decisions when buying health products and services.

Communicating effectively: This life skill will teach you good communication skills, which include knowing how to listen and speak effectively. These skills will help you improve your relationships with classmates, family, friends, teachers, and others.

Coping: This skill will help you deal with difficult situations and times and with emotions such as anger, depression, and loss.

Evaluating media messages: This skill will help you analyze media messages and make the best possible decision as it relates to your health.

Making great decisions: This skill will help you make the right decisions that will most effectively help you lead your most healthy lifestyle.

Practicing wellness: This life skill will show you how to practice healthy behaviours daily so you can have good life-long health. Examples include a nutritious diet, avoiding risky behaviours, and getting sleep.

Setting goals: This skill will help you to set attainable goals and with tips to reach those goals.

Using community resources: This skill will help you find community services and help you understand how they can assist you.

Using refusal skills: This skill will help you with different ways to say 'no' to something you do not want to do.


 Media: All public forms of communication, such as advertisements, internet, and radio. Resource: Something that you can use to achieve a goal.

Making decisions is a daily endeavor. Making snap decisions without really thinking them through is always the easy thing to do. If you make impulsive decisions, it can lead to negative consequences. The decisions you make should always promote the health of your community, your family, and yourself. GREAT decision makers use GREAT:

GIVE thought to the problem: give time to pause and think before making any decisions.

REVIEW your choices: There will be more than one choice in most decisions you make. Some choices are bad, and some are good. Think about all the choices before choosing your direction.

EVALUATE the consequences of each choice: Each choice, whether bad or good, will have consequences. Each consequence will have an effect on your health. This evaluation process should be utilized before any decision is made.

ASSESS and choose the best choice: Once the evaluation process is concluded, make the best decisions for you and your health moving forward.

THINK it over afterward: Once the decision is made, and consequences are rendered, relive the decision for any future similar choices.

At times, you will make mistakes when you make decisions. You should:

Admit you made a poor decision. When you admit you made a mistake, you take responsibility for what you've done.

Think about who you can talk to about the problem. Usually, a close friend, parent, school counselor, or teacher can help you.

Finally, do your best to correct the situation. You may need to apologize to someone you hurt, leave the situation, or tell someone about an unsafe situation.

Direct pressure: The pressure that results from someone trying to convince you to do something you wouldn't normally do.


 Indirect pressure: The pressure that results from being swayed to do something because the people you look up to are doing it.

Negative influences: Being influenced to do something you don't want to do. It can be unhealthy and unsafe. An example would be drinking, smoking, or trying an illegal drug because you feel it makes you closer to your friends.

Peer pressure: A feeling that you should do something because it is what your friends want.

Positive influences: Being influenced to improve yourself and having positive role models is positive. An example would be joining the track team because your friends run track. Being on a track team would inevitably improve your overall health.

Refusal skill: A strategy to avoid doing something you don't want to do.

Direct pressure: bribery, explanation, persuasion, put-downs, teasing, threats.

Indirect pressure: advertising, famous people, popular people, radio, role models, television.

Refusal skills: blaming someone else, changing the subject, giving a reason, ignoring the pressure or request, leaving the situation, making a joke out of the situation, making an excuse, saying 'no', suggesting something else to do, or teaming up with someone else in a different group.

Action plan: A set of directions that will help you reach your goals.

Goal: Something that you hope to achieve and work toward. All goals should be safe, sensible, specific, and supported.

Long-term goal: Goals that cannot be achieved quickly (takes months or years). Short-term goal: Goals that can be achieved quickly (takes days or weeks).