Life Skills Archive

Have you ever been let down? Been promised a pony – but delivered a pigeon? Today we are discussing disappointment. Wow – that’s a pretty depressing topic… Maybe you’re disappointed that we are talking about this… Maybe you’ve been jilted at the alter. Maybe you’ve...

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This week we look at “Personal Dignity”.  How you value yourself directs how well you take care of yourself. We look at our value from the world’s perspective and God’s viewpoint. If you could change anything about yourself what would it be? Do you like...

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Tonight we discussed Life Management – How to set Priorities, have Accountability for those – and complete them with Time Management. These three subtopics are so closely related that we need to discuss them together. How do you start to manage your life? Who can...

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Let’s talk about where we’ve been First night we talked about – where we would like to be in a year. Some of you said… Let’s start that again – where would you like to be in a year or two – what stage of...

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This week we look at the topic of Money Management. For most, the question always comes up – “If I don’t have much money – why do I need to learn how to manage it?”. That’s exactly the problem! Money – you never have enough. ...

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This week we looked at fear. What is it and why are we held in its grasp? We began by looking at the differences between Anxiety, Fear and Stress. Anxiety: 1. relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders,...

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This past week we discussed “how to keep a job”. Our friend and OurCalling board member Chris Dance added to the discussion. Chris has years of experience in interviewing and hiring. He discussed what employers “look for” and how to “sell yourself” in an interview....

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My research for this topic is depressing. I cannot find one free anger management class in Dallas to refer people too. Anger is a serios concern and the number one requested topic in our class. There are many support groups, but all that I can...

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Our first life skills class was a discovery class. I took a survey asking “what do you want this class to cover”. I admit that I don’t have all of the answers. I need the class’s input so that we can teach what they want...

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