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SELF- ENHANCEMENT POSSIBILITIES
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HEALTH
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Weight control |
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Physical condition: Improve stamina,
body shape and tone, vitality. |
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Stop self-defeating behaviors:
Eliminate drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse; stop avoiding dentist or
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2. INTELLECTUAL SKILLS
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Reasoning: Spot logical errors,
semantic fallacies. |
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Analysis: Learn to ask better
questions. |
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Articulation: Learn to express ideas
orally and in writing. |
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Information: Acquire knowledge, form
opinions based on evidence. |
3. EMOTIONAL SKILLS
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Empathy training: Listen better,
increase sensitivity to others’ wants and feelings |
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Assertion: Improve communication of
feelings, positive and negative, verbally and nonverbally;
expressing opinions; standing up for rights. |
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Relate to children in a
non-authoritarian way. |
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Experimental relating: Do opposite of
“natural” tendency; choose previously rejected persons; tolerate
discomfort. |
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Loneliness tolerance training:
Gradually increase periods of solitude. |
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Rational-emotive therapy: Integrate
feelings, beliefs and actions; understand cognitive blocks to
emotional well-being and effective living. |
4. SEXUALITY
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Information: You can’t know too much:
check truth of commonly held ideas. |
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Freedom from compulsions: Challenge
ideas behind compulsions |
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Remove inhibitions that are
self-defeating: express wishes, dreams, desires. |
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Experimentation: Vary partners,
techniques, circumstances, approaches. |
5.
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES (RECREATIONAL)
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Follow up on long-desired interest or
activity |
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Intensify current hobby. |
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Take up related hobby, sport or
pursuit. |
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Try several new interests or activities
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you may like
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6. SELF-MANAGEMENT
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Cooking and food preparation. |
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Home and auto maintenance. |
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Bookkeeping, budgeting, and tax
records. |
7.
SOCIAL SKILLS
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Develop friendships; or enhance
intimacy of old ones |
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Improve skills in dealing with sex-love
partners: Meeting, initiating, attracting, etc. |
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Express more affection: See no. 3
above. |
8.
CAREER/INCOME
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Investigate potential for advancement. |
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Check out other positions, salaries |
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Investigate investment possibilities,
freelancing opportunities |
9.
PERSONAL
ENVIRONMENT
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Evaluate residence and possessions. |
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Dispose of inappopriate items, and
acquire relevant ones. |
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