Life Skills
What Your Schools Forgot To Teach You Volume I
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WHERE IS YOUR MAP FOR THE ROAD OF LIFE?
You would not travel in an unknown territory without a map.
You certainly need one for the road of life. It is important that you write it down and study it. Your map eventually determines your character.
Your map should have the following:
1. Your “self-worth”.
How important do you think you are? Your self-worth should never depend on the size of your chest or the shape of your thighs. Your self-worth depends on the inner you.
You are made by God. This alone makes you a highly valuable being.
If you have patience and are caring, if you are fair, if you are moral, if you are helpful, and if you are responsible, then you are invaluable.
Once you realize your worth, you will not listen when people tell you that you are stupid or no good. You will not accept abuse. You will demand to be treated with respect or will leave a relationship.
You will realize that you are complete in yourself and therefore are not scared of living alone. You do not become complete in a relationship.
You only share your whole self in a relationship.
But if you have low self-esteem, people will abuse you and you will have a life filled with pain.
2. Your “source of power”.
You would not leave home without charging your cell phone.
Why not charge yourself with a prayer to God? It is better than any anti-anxiety medication, tranquilizers, or antidepressants. It is a great source of strength.
It helps you handle panic attacks. It prevents you from making mistakes.
Pray twice daily. Also, get strength from religious books.
3. How much “you value your health and brain”.
If you are concerned about being optimally fit, you will eat the right food take the right meals and do the necessary exercises. You will stay away from addiction. You will not eat too much or too little.
ABUSE
There is physical abuse that we are all familiar with.
There is verbal abuse, which involves name-calling and insults of the other person. We can attack his intelligence saying he is stupid or no good etc
And then, there is emotional abuse.
Emotional abuse starts in such a subtle manner that we are not even aware of it and attribute it to the attacker having a bad day. This is because we do not know how to define it. But the attacker is just testing waters to see how far he can get away with what he is doing.
Emotional abuse occurs:
when we are not valued;
when we are cursed;
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About the Book
Ever wondered why you do not have “a map for the road of life”?
Did you know that there are two types of education?
The first, in school, teaches us about our environment.
The second type teaches us “how” to react to this environment.
The first will not dip into your personal life. The second will.
The second education was equally valued in olden days. It was a core of beliefs, values and clarity of vision given to us by religion, our parents and society.
Today we have ignored this second education completely.
Consequently, we are lost. We take time off “to find ourselves”. In panic attacks, we grab a pill instead of digging into our character.
In this book, the second education is again presented to you.
About the Author
The author is a doctor with over thirty years of practice in two continents.
Because her father was in Foreign Service, she has lived in many countries and has been exposed to different cultures. She has learned all religions.
She strongly believes in two sets of education. The one in school teaches us about our environment. The second one gives us “a map for the road of life”. Both should be given simultaneously.
This book was written to complete the need for the second type of education for her children and her patients.