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The Real Reason People Skills Are So Important

Many people recognize the importance of superior people skills as a means to get ahead, to be successful and to be effective in the world.

However there is a far more important reason to develop great people skills. True happiness depends on your ability to form healthy mutually supportive relationships with people you care about.

This applies at home, socially and at work.Consider those who have happy, full lives. What do they have in common? Money? Good looks? Career success?

Although desirable, none of those attributes are essential for a happy life.Happy people get on very well with other people...

Truly happy people share the ability to deal with people from all walks of life and have a knack for making others like them. They are likeable people and others enjoy their company and want to hear what they have to say.The more you develop this ability to relate well to the people in your day-to-day life the happier you will be.

Why is this true?Because surrounding yourself with people who like and care about you is the best way to boost your self-esteem. It is also the only sure fire way to both enjoy the journey and deal with the ups and downs of life.

Consider this question: what do the happiest moments in your life have in common?For most of us these special moments involved other people - people we enjoy being with just for the fun of spending time with them. If these same memories had happened without them you might not even recall the moment.

It is this special human connection with great people that is the source of the fun, the laughter and the happiness. And of course, the more often we have these connections the happier we feel.Want even more happiness?

Well, you know what to do... create more special moments by developing such good people skills that happy moments become part of how you live rather than occasional and random happenings.Although some people fear otherwise, people skills can be learned by anyone of at least average intelligence.

posted by Indira Bandari @ 6:40 PM