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Behavioral and social skills are best improved in the following ways:

	spend more time socializing
	strengthen your closest relationships
	develop a more outgoing, social personality (more extravert than introvert)
	be a better friend
	become more active
	become more involved with meaningful work
	change the way you think

The last technique is so successful that a whole school of therapy has grown up around it, called cognitive therapy. Thinking more positively automatically make the previous six suggestions become much easier to adopt. It is a collection of techniques that share the
goal of making interpretations of events rational and realistic.  Happy people are socially skilled and think differently from unhappy ones in a number of ways. They have a positive view of everything, realistic goals and a purpose in life, can see the funny side of things,
do not blame themselves when bad things happen and believe they can control what happens (to and around them).

One of the best ways of shoring up self-belief and simultaneously taking the first step to success is to view your life as a project, with you as project manager in chief. As in every good project, you need to have a clear, overarching vision of what you want to achieve, broken down into smaller goals, or milestones. At this point, it’s a good idea to start with a 10-year plan or (if you naturally think in the shorter-term)  a 5-year plan. When you think of long-term goals, it helps to be flexible. When it comes to short-term goals, i.e. next week or next month, it helps to be very specific and targeted.

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