Skills to Personal Power

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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

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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 cant 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.