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The Most Useful Skills You Will Need To Lead A Great Life

Lukas Schwekendiek
4 min readApr 17, 2024

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  • Cooking — Everyone should know at least a few recipes, or even just being able to cook noodles or rice.
  • Finance — Taxes, Investments, and balancing a budget. The world is a game that revolves around money and you must be proficient in the skill to play this game at least to some degree.
  • Sales — You are always selling. You sell ideas to friends, yourself to employers, and possible actions to yourself every day. The more skillful you are at this the easier of a time you have getting what you want in life.
  • Communication — There is a reason this is the most important relationship skill everywhere you look. Communicating your needs, your wants, and setting boundaries is all part of the same skill that will make or break relationships.
  • Active Listening — This is the biggest networking skill you can have if you want to make true relationships. The ability to listen, ask open-ended questions, and being truly present with other people will make them feel heard. That feeling is something they will always remember fondly.
  • Accountability — Or the skill to do what you said you would. Not only is this crucial to other people believing you, but also for you believing your own word, something that directly correlates to your own self-confidence and the things…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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