Meaningful Life Skills

Author : Simon Jacobson
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062856979

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Toward a Meaningful Life by Simon Jacobson Pdf

Toward a Meaningful Life is a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Head of the Lubavitcher movement for forty-four years and recognized throughout the world simply as “the Rebbe,” Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who passed away in June 1994, was a sage and a visionary of the highest order. Toward a Meaningful Life gives people of all backgrounds fresh perspectives on every aspect of their lives—from birth to death, youth to old age; marriage, love, intimacy, and family; the persistent issues of career, health, pain, and suffering; and education, faith, science, and government. We learn to bridge the divisions between accelerated technology and decelerated morality, between unprecedented worldwide unity and unparalleled personal disunity. Although the Rebbe’s teachings are firmly anchored in more than three thousand years of scholarship, the urgent relevance of these old-age truths to contemporary life has never been more manifest. At the threshold of a new world where matter and spirit converge, the Rebbe proposes spiritual principles that unite people as opposed to the materialism that divides them. In doing so, he continues to lead us toward personal and universal redemption, toward a meaningful life, and toward God.

Author : Adam Nguyen
Publisher : Adam Nguyen
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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HOW TO CREATE MEANINGFUL LIFE by Adam Nguyen Pdf

Our lives are made up of different pieces. Every quality piece will make a quality life. So, what pieces of your life consist of? And which pieces are the most important? In this booklet, I share the 7 most important pieces. I share them with 7 different questions. They are: values, goals, passions, talents, balance, efficiency and happiness. I know that they are all very difficult questions. Each person will need to find their own answer. The obvious thing is: if you have not asked the question then you cannot have the answer. The right question to ask is half the way. The most important thing is to apply and practice. When you have read them, I hope you will apply them to your life. Any knowledge would be worthless if not applied.

Author : Dacher Keltner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393073355

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Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner Pdf

“A landmark book in the science of emotions and its implications for ethics and human universals.”—Library Journal, starred review In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short,” why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and cooperative societies? Illustrated with more than fifty photographs of human emotions, Born to Be Good takes us on a journey through scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy. Positive emotions, Keltner finds, lie at the core of human nature and shape our everyday behavior—and they just may be the key to understanding how we can live our lives better. Some images in this ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

Author : Shannon Hodges
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000776249

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Creating a Meaningful Life by Shannon Hodges Pdf

Creating a Meaningful Life builds on the tenets of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to answer some of life’s basic questions, such as "How do I create a meaningful, purposeful life?" and "Is the life I am living one that brings me fulfillment, purpose, and a sense of inner peace?" Using a variety of techniques, including journaling, grounding exercises, cognitive self-talk restructuring, and more, chapters invite counseling professionals and students to explore their inner landscape, better understand themselves and find communion with others.

Author : B. Prashanthi
Publisher : Rudra Publications
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789390835980

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LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION MODULES FOR EMPOWERING WOMEN AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY LIFE OF FARM WOMEN: Life skills Education by B. Prashanthi Pdf

Life skills are the abilities that help in promotion of mental and social wellbeing and competence in women to face the realities of life. The ultimate aim of life skills education is the overall development of women personality which cannot be achieved without exposing women to various life skills. The ten core (generic) Life skills as listed by WHO are self-awareness, Empathy, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Effective Communication, Interpersonal Relationships, Coping with stress and Managing Emotions. Life skill education lays the foundation for learning skills which enhance self-direction of the individual. It would be a way of empowering women to build their lives and their dreams. It would be a means of handholding them through the critical stages in their life and helping them tap their potential to the fullest. Thereby, it is hoped that the current education system with its oppressive rigidity would open up and make life skills education a part of its mainstream group. This would enable the country to build individuals who believe in themselves, who are efficient leaders and administrators, who are able to understand their potentials and achieve them.

Author : Geetanjali Kumar
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789325994546

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Life Skills and Values for Us – 3 by Geetanjali Kumar Pdf

Life Skills and Values for Us for Classes 3–5 is a new series in Life Skills and Value Education. It aims at imbibing a variety of life skills and values in learners through comic strips, activities, thought-provoking questions and problem-solving scenarios that tickles the learner’s curiosity. The ebook version does not contain CD.

Author : Geetanjali Kumar
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789325994560

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Life Skills and Values for Us – 5 by Geetanjali Kumar Pdf

Life Skills and Values for Us for Classes 3–5 is a new series in Life Skills and Value Education. It aims at imbibing a variety of life skills and values in learners through comic strips, activities, thought-provoking questions and problem-solving scenarios that tickles the learner’s curiosity. The ebook version does not contain CD.

Author : Geetanjali Kumar
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789325994553

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Life Skills and Values for Us – 4 by Geetanjali Kumar Pdf

Life Skills and Values for Us for Classes 3–5 is a new series in Life Skills and Value Education. It aims at imbibing a variety of life skills and values in learners through comic strips, activities, thought-provoking questions and problem-solving scenarios that tickles the learner’s curiosity. The ebook version does not contain CD.

Author : Dr. S. Joyce Jeyarani
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781435770409

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Life Skills and Well-being for Adolescent Mental Health by Dr. S. Joyce Jeyarani Pdf

To live a joyful and purposeful life, one needs to develop an ability to cope up with the changing environment and consider the changes positively; such ability is called as Life Skill. “Life Skills are abilities to adjust to changing situations in a positive manner which in turn will help individual face and to overcome the challenges of everyday life”- World Health Organization (WHO). Life skill education helps children and adolescents to transform knowledge, attitudes and values into accomplishment. It facilitates the progress of a variety of abilities that enable children and adolescents manage effectively with the obstacles of day to day life, allowing them to be socially and psychologically proficient. The term ‘life skills’ refers to a broad group of psychosocial and interpersonal skills that can help children make informed decision, communicate effectively and navigate their surroundings (UNICEF,2007).

Author : Annamaria Di Fabio,David L. Blustein
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9782889199709

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From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work by Annamaria Di Fabio,David L. Blustein Pdf

This Research Topic explores issues that are central to the continued relevance of organizational and vocational psychology, and equally central to the well-being of individuals and communities. The cohering theme of this publication revolves around the question of how people can establish meaningful lives and meaningful work experiences in light of the many challenges that are reducing access to decent work. Another essential contextual factor that is explored in this volume is the Decent Work Agenda (International Labour Organization, 2008), which represents an initiative by the International Labour Organization. In this book, we hope to enrich the Decent Work Agenda by infusing the knowledge and perspectives of psychology into contemporary discourses about work, and well-being. Another inspiration for this project emerged from the UNESCO Chair in Lifelong guidance and counseling, recently established in Poland in 2013 under the leadership of Jean Guichard, which has focused on advancing research and policy advocacy about decent work. This new era calls for an innovative perspective in constructing decent work and decent lives: the passage from the paradigm of motivation to the paradigm of meaning, where the sustainability of the decent life project is anchored to a meaningful construction. During this period when work is changing so rapidly, leaving people yearning for a sense of connection and meaning, it’s fundamental to create a framework for an explicitly psychological analysis of decent work.

Author : Shipra Vaidya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788132217893

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Developing Entrepreneurial Life Skills by Shipra Vaidya Pdf

This book presents an epistemological framework for integrating entrepreneurship education across the general school curriculum. It also explores how such education can be inclusive and integral to the objective, content, pedagogy and assessment practices for different stages of school education in general and the elementary stage in particular. It takes on board the development of entrepreneurial proficiencies through the use of narratives, arts and craft, work and life skills and home-community partnership. The precise aims of the book are to: (a) conceptualize entrepreneurship education in different stages of school education as an objective, an approach and as a specific subject; (b) promote the culture of entrepreneurship in the school system; (c) establish a methodology within which effective teaching-learning can be developed with respect to the extent to which entrepreneurial learning is considered to be an extracurricular activity or as an intrinsic part of school education; (d) integrate entrepreneurship education at the elementary stage, and its progression further on; and (e) identify behavioural outcomes validating entrepreneurship development in school education.

Author : Joel Vos
Publisher : University Professors Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781939686589

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The Economics of Meaning in Life by Joel Vos Pdf

There is not such a thing as value-free economics. All economic theories prescribe a unique meaning in life. What meanings are hidden in economic theories? How can we live a meaningful life despite the meanings that economists and politicians promote? The Economics of Meaning in Life offers a unique multidisciplinary study that systematically examines the meanings that are often hidden in economic and political debates. This book starts with a brief world history of how people have experienced meaning in different economic systems. For example, authors on capitalism often have a rational focus on materialistic and self-oriented types of meaning in life. Subsequently, the book describes research showing that many individuals feel taken hostage by this capitalist perspective, but simultaneously defend its meanings. This is the Capitalist Life Syndrome, named after the Stockholm Syndrome where hostages like their hostage-takers and develop a psychological alliance with them. Similar to the Communist Life Syndrome, individuals take over this capitalist approach to meaning even though these syndromes may not be good for their mental health. In response to the Capitalist Life Syndrome, increasing numbers of people want personal and societal change. A review of research discussed in the book shows that increasing numbers of people have started to focus on social and larger types of meaning since the 2007/2008 market crash: the meaning-oriented economy. Many aspects of the economy are transforming, from personal job-motivation to organisation structures, human resource management, and production. People search for new meaning within, outside, against, and beyond capitalism. This meaning-oriented trend is the future of economics, according to leaders in for example the World Economic Forum. This is the first book to integrate systematic empirical studies on meaning in life with economic theory, written by a leading researcher on meaning. The author makes his insights accessible with examples ranging from conversations with London CEO’s and Ugandan orphans to political uprisings in Latin America, environmentalist campaigns, and COVID-19. The author defends the human right to a meaningful life and recommends practical meaning-oriented steps for political campaigners. The Economics of Meaning in Life is for all readers who are interested in the real life-world hiding behind the veils of traditional economics and politics. This book should be required reading for all students of economics, psychology, sociology, and philosophy. Because everyone deserves a meaningful life.

Author : Dr. Divya Ahluwalia and Dr. Rashmi Gupta
Publisher : MY Authors Hub
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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LIFE SKILLS by Dr. Divya Ahluwalia and Dr. Rashmi Gupta Pdf

Happiness is the bedrock of a civilized society. The rise and fall of civilizations explicitly show human outreach and their unending efforts to make human life happy, even in the most perilous situations and predicaments. In the tumultuous development of the human race, the tides of time failed to slow down humanity's courage to continuously battle for happiness and for a progressive life. Every struggle begins for happiness, persists until its achievement, and forever lives in its maintenance. It is a lifelong, consistent process. From the smallest challenges to the waves of terrible conditions, human perseverance in search of happiness is undeterred. However, each endeavor for being happy demands different life skills and encapsulates lifelong experiences. This book investigates whether life skills play a pivotal role in ascertaining and enhancing happiness in human life. It attempts to determine whether or not people can experience happiness by learning these life skills as a concept of lifelong learning and aims to explore the key to happiness.

Author : Monika Khatwani
Publisher : Literatureslight Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Life Skills for Adults by Monika Khatwani Pdf

The book of life skills is divided into five sections. This book will help you to find different emotions and behaviours that we come across in day to day life or during a certain period of life where we find difficulty coping. This book helps individuals to manage emotions and guides ways to cope with different situations and handle problems and self. This book also has some self-analysis and self-development exercises which will help a lot in journalising your thoughts and emotions and finding out solutions by yourself to your problems. Section 3 of this book also explains why people behave in a certain way, what is the impact of childhood memories and society and focuses on how to deal with it. It will help you to be self-motivated and be solution-oriented and find your life motives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781424322213

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Significant Conversations: Helping Young People Live Meaningful Lives by Anonim Pdf