The Magic You Need To Defeat Any Of Life's Challenges

When was the last time you evaluated your skill set? Skill sets have grown over several years. From your youth to retirement your skill set grows as you grow.

A skill set refers to areas of experience, knowledge, competence, and abilities required to complete a task or perform a job. Some areas for a skill set include tech skills, computer skills, communication, time management, research, planning, leadership skills, and learning and adaptation.

Skill set: A set of skills, especially a collection of skills and abilities that can be applied to a professional or creative endeavor.

— Merriam Webster.com/Dictionary

Those are great things to be skilled at. We all develop our skills through our experiences, knowledge, and acquired wisdom. The truth about life is everybody has a skill set.

When you examine your skill set, or unpack your skills, what is included? Do you possess everything you need to be as successful as you want? Many skills only come with time.

The best part of a skill set is you can choose to add to your skill set and grow your skills whenever you decide. You don’t have to wait. When you grow your skill set there are some less-considered skills that you should include.

Important Skills For Your Tool Bag

When you consider your skill set it’s like a tool bag. Your skill set can include most of the things needed to accomplish a job. Like tools, you can stuff everything you have in the bag and have them when you’re ready. Here are some examples of learned skills that should be in any skill set.

• Resilience: Being able to bounce back from setbacks and stay determined in the face of challenges.
• Discipline: The ability to apply consistent effort and adhere to a plan or routine in the face of difficulty.
• Being adaptable: Being flexible and adjusting strategies and approaches when facing changing circumstances.
• Being persistent: Having a strong dedication to achieving goals despite obstacles.
• Confidence: Possessing a belief in one’s abilities and decisions, and faith in your ability to take risks, survive them, and succeed.
• Be focused: Concentrate on goals and tasks, and avoid distractions that can slow or halt progress.
• Remaining Positive: Maintaining an optimistic look at life and motivating yourself and others.
• A developed work ethic: Commit to putting in the time and effort to achieve success.
• Leadership skills: An ability to inspire, guide, and influence others toward a common outcome or goal.

• Emotional intelligence: Understand and manage one’s emotions and those of others to build good relationships.
• Communication skills: Being able to clearly convey ideas and listen effectively to other people.
• Become goal-orientated: Set clear and attainable goals and create plans to achieve them.
• Be creative: Thinking outside the box can solve problems and help innovate new ways of doing things.
• Self-motivation: Drive yourself to take action without being prompted or told to do so.
• Time management skills: The ability to effectively organize and prioritize tasks.
• Agility of learning: Being willing and able to learn from experiences and apply that knowledge to new things.
• Integrity: Adhere to moral and ethical principles, and build trust and respect from others.
• Networking skills: To be able to build and maintain and supporting and resourceful list of contacts.
• Health and wellness: To achieve long-term success you need to take care of your mental and physical health needs.
• Vision: Having a clear, inspiring vision of what success looks like and the roadmap to achieve it.

But Wait, That’s Not It

Even with all the skills in the world, there needs to be an understanding of why they’re valuable.

There’s the subject of resilience. What does it mean to your skill set and abilities?

Resilience also means mental toughness. The world’s not all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a deeply disturbing, dark, and vicious place. The world will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it.

The final skill, the one that many need more than anything else, is the ability to take a hit. Some people will equivocate that to a physical hit and others will look at it as more. Both are correct, depending on the lifestyle, career paths, and history of the person.

The ability to take a hit and get up and move forward is a test of your character. But in any endeavor, as in life, you’re going to take hits and sometimes they’ll be brutal. Try imagining taking a physical hit. If you’ve never been punched in a fight, you’re lucky. Once you have been hit and know that you can survive, it makes it easier.

Now, apply that to life. The fighter who takes the hits and keeps on coming has a much better chance of succeeding than the one who stops moving forward. Only by moving forward is winning ever done.