Life Skills

Nowadays, the people are lives in a globalization era. Additionally, the people who have high quality of life would become the stronger men who can still survive in this era. Moreover, in this era, everybody should have skills. But, not just an academic skill, the people should have a skill that can help them to survives, to control their life in human social living, to solve their problem, and the skills that make the people become creative. Those are well known as “life skills”.

According to an article that I’ve read, life skills are the skills which teach someone to be happy in any condition, responsible for their own words and deeds, capable to solve the problem that they faced, and become success with their creativity (Dra. Eri Soekresno, 2012). “The people who have life skill will reject to do something which is problematic. They also can adept to evaluate a situation, make a safer choice based on their own principles and nor of bandwagon” (Dra. Eri Soekresno, 2012).  There are some aspects covering the life skills;

the proficiency to know who they are (physical abilities, intellectual abilities, emotional abilities, and spiritual abilities), the proficiency to have good relationship with people, the proficiency to maintain the environment, and the proficiency of vocational (mastering and loving a jobs). In addition, there are two things that needed in life; these are the skills to become creative and the skill that drive someone to solve a problem. So, the people should master all aspects in above to make them happy and success in life.

There is an example of the people who became success with their great life skills. Haryanti, is a woman who success with her business. She has a successfully coconut shell crafts business. Her business is covering all of coconut shell crafts such as, coconut shell buttons, coconut shell bags, and many more. Her idea to run a coconut shell buttons business is begun when she went to traditional market and she was looked at buttons of coconut shell in batik clothes. Actually, she is not become a success directly. She has to face many obstacles in running her business. One of the obstacles is when her coconut shell buttons business was defeated by new same competitor. But, she was not given up at least. She keeps trying a new business to survive her life. Finally, she got an idea to make new business; it is a coconut shell bags business. Fortunately, this new product becomes famous in market and also growing rapidly. Now, her new product brought yanti and her family become success. For those example, the creativity of yanti to make a new breakthrough on her products, the courage of yanti to start and through the difficult process and her spirit to never give up are brings her to become a success person. The story of yanti ‘s effort in run her business was named as life skills. Yanti never become success if she doesn’t have a good life skill. The people like yanti are the competence people to lives in this globalization era.

To conclude, life skills are problem solving behaviors used appropriately and responsibly in lives management. We need to master all of aspects in life skills. Because, there are many problems in this life and we can’t escape from that. So, we should have good life skills to overcome the problem and either to survive in this globalization era.