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With this list it will not be difficult to find those new skills to learn, it
will be difficult narrowing down your list of what you want to learn.
In the following article, we will cover 101 new skills you can learn
(with an hour of dedicated time each day) that can dramatically
improve your personal and professional life.
And if you'd like a few resources that can teach you all the
skills on this page, then I recommend checking out these
platforms to learn any skill.
Masterclass (Learn from the best world's best experts. You
can read the review of it here.)
Skillshare (You can read the review of it here.)
Udemy (You can read the review of it here.)
Coursera (You can read the review of it here.)
Let's get to the new skills to start learning today!
First, you will be able to know what is going into your food and
therefore what is going into your body. You can control how much
fat and salt goes into your dishes to create a healthy diet for
yourself and your family. Also, you can impress your friends and
family when you have them over for dinner, even if you just make
something simple.
Lastly, you will save a lot of money eating at home versus eating at
a restaurant. You can make enough food at home to have leftovers
for lunch the next day and even to freeze meals for a future dinner.
To get started, try this online service that helps you plan meals
based on your dietary preferences, your cooking style, the
number of people in your family, and the grocery stores you
frequent. In addition to giving you a weekly meal plan, it also
provides a detailed grocery list.
Other resources: Essential Cooking Skills | Healthy Cooking
Fundamentals | Cook Real Food: How to Make Simple Plant-Based
Meals | Interactive Thai Cooking Class
The key is to find your favorite martial art and learn some basic self-
defense skills from a class.
And if practicing martial arts isn’t something you can do at this time,
then perhaps investing in a 9mm pistol and going to the range to
practice would be best. Just don’t forget to have the proper hearing
protection.
Learning Tai Chi imparts the six principles of flow and imparts grace
and flow to the practitioner.
Find out more about this healthy form of exercise that reduces
stress, builds confidence, imparts grace and strength, helps you live
longer and helps your mind reach a state of clarity.
My personal rule. Read one nonfiction book for learning for every
fiction book I read for fun. And if you want a quick way to digest lots
of books, try this app that provides detailed book summaries
that only takes 10 minutes of your time.
Resource: 200+ Best Self Help Books (or How to Never Run Out of
Good Things to Read)
Plus learning the skill of changing your own flat tires may save you
a few dollars in expenses.
Here is a quick video that shows the basics of changing a flat tire.
When you are able to use humor effectively in writing, speech, and
socially, you will find yourself a sought after commodity, like the last
hamburger stand before you get to an all-vegan community.
This is another simple skill that every single adult should know.
Most people think that starting a fire from scratch is a difficult skill to
learn — something to daunt survivalists with years of learning
experience.
One tool that can simplify this process is this FREE Everstryke
Waterproof firestarter.
Resource: 9 Ways To Start a Fire Without Matches
And here is a video that has fourteen ideas for starting a fire without
matches.
I don’t think it will ever happen. But it would be nice to have some
understanding of what to do and how to help my family to survive if
the unthinkable and unbelievable ever happened.
The short course below will teach you the basic skills of sewing,
using sewing machines and even a few advanced techniques to set
you toward the next level of sewing.
Resource: Sewing 101
If you are shy or have some doubts with your self-confidence, but it
is important to learn how to overcome these things if you want to be
able to put yourself out there and meet someone special. Learning
how to meet and attract a perfect life partner is important for many
people in the quest to live a fulfilling life.
His only hope is that someone knows the Heimlich around him. The
technique is simple, and anyone can learn it with a little bit of care
and research.
This is a skill that every single adult should not only know but have
practiced it until it is second nature. Learning this skill just might
save a life.
Mental Skills
All the skills to learn are not fun things like learning to play guitar,
speed cup stacking, or learning a new foreign language. Some of
them are far more useful skills than that.
For example, you are learning how to learn. When you learn the
intricacies of how to learn, every skill or bit of knowledge learned
thereafter just a little bit more quickly and easily, due to the fact that
you fully understand the process of learning new skills.
Many of the mental skills to learn are like this. They build on
essential skills that will help you learn more, do more, achieve more
or generally succeed in life.
“Having passion” for the things you do may be a bit trite… but it is
true. If you really get behind the things you do, then keeping up the
learning process for new skills will not be a chore, but something
that you actively pursue.
Want to learn more details about mindfulness and how you can
become more mindful? Why not check out some books I have
written with my writing partner Barrie Davenport.
Resources: Our Mindfulness Books and Journal
Declutter Your Mind 10-Minute Mindfulness
Both of these scenarios present the potential for change. Why fear
it if you're going to want it for the rest of your life potentially?
There are many ways to go about changing your habits. Some will
have extra steps than the skill resource below. Other may have
some additional steps. But at its core, all effective change boils
down to following the 8 steps below.
Not sure what constitutes a bad habit, that you might want to
change? Check out this bad habit list. And take a moment to think
about changing out some of these bad habits for their better
counterparts from this list of good habits.
Resource: How to Break a Bad Habit (without the Cravings)
When you have a positive mindset, you can take control of the way
that you feel, behave and move forward, but you first need to start
thinking in those positive, productive ways that provide energy
rather than draining it.
Check out some of the best memory exercises below to learn more
about building a powerful memory skill.
What is self-awareness?
Being present to everything that's happening as it happens with no
need to judge or analyze it. Embodying what it means to experience
life, and awareness will come.
Money Skills
(Side note: One of the simplest ways to build your money skills
is to join over 1 million others and start your day with the latest
news from Wall St. to Silicon Valley. This newsletter is a 5-
minute read that's informative, witty, and FREE!)
Everyone likes to have money. They may not have a need to be
rich, but it is certainly nice not to scramble to find creative ways to
pay your bills.
However, money and finances are certain skills, and unfortunately,
they are skills that most people have not learned.
If you want to learn a new skill, and you don't know the skills of
finance these would be a great place to start. They can help you
make more money, spend less, keep more of what you make and
even save money for an investment, property, or a future,
“something special.” (For more on this, check out the article on 26
better money habits.)
Resource: Personal Budgeting
But these are the broad strokes. There are a lot of little things that
can be done to improve your credit. Check out the resource below
for more bad credit busting tips.
You DO need credit cards to build your credit rating. The important
thing to learn is that you don't need to build a balance. If you only
buy what you can afford, and pay it off almost immediately, you get
all of the good parts of a credit card, with none of the negatives.
But if credit is still a major issue or fear, there is still the option of
secured credit cards, though.
In other words, don't use your rent money to pay off your debt, but it
might also help to brew coffee at home sometimes and put that
extra money towards your debts.
Saving money is a skill. Check out the link below for some tips to
help you save more of what you earn.
Resource : 17 Best Money-Saving Apps
There are a few extra things you can do each day to really
benefit from this and get the most out of your efforts:
Make sure that you turn off all of the lights whenever you
leave a room.
Turn off your electronics when you are not using them. While
many electronics will automatically go into a “standby” mode if
they are not used for a certain amount of time, this still uses
some electricity.
If the weather is nice outside, open up your windows and use
fans around the house to circulate the air and cool down in the
summertime. This will help you save money by only using the
air conditioning on days that are oppressively hot.
Open up your blinds and shades in the winter to allow sunlight
in and warm up your home. Warming your home naturally with
the sun will keep you from spending additional money on
heating.
When you are cooking, match your pot size to the size of your
burner. If you use a small pot or pan on a large burner, you
are expending additional energy to get the same result.
Use the smallest pot or appliance that you need. If you are
heating up one chicken breast, don't preheat your entire oven.
Rather, heat up your small convection oven, or consider
cooking it in a pan.
Wash your clothes in cold water. You will achieve the same
results as washing in warm water, but you will save about 40
cents per a load of laundry.
If you are going out of town, turn off the water heater. It only
takes an hour for a water heater to reheat the water in your
house and turning it off saves quite a bit of energy while you
are gone.
Don't leave your electronics on the charger once they are fully
charged. This wastes energy and can possibly harm your
batteries.
Resource: One tool that can help you save money on utilities
is Trim, which is an app that negotiates on your behalf better
rates with your providers of cable, Internet, phone and helps
you get rid of unwanted services.
While you may have heard that the best time to begin your
investments is ten years ago, but the next best time is today. In
other words, it's never too late to get started with investing. So take
your time to learn about the stock market, bonds, mutual funds, and
trades. But once you learn the basics, you should challenge
yourself to take that first step.
Resource: Investing 101: The Complete Online Investing
Course
However, if you skip on health and fitness skills, in the long term it
will come back to haunt you.
These are the skills that keep you alive longer. They are the skills
that build a health reservoir, so you are going strong when you
reach 60, rather than breaking down like some other peers.
The effects can be felt immediately. Develop this skill and powerful
breathing will become second nature. It's important to remember
that you won't become perfect at breathing better overnight, but it's
well worth the wait to develop.
Finally, due to the last reason, swimming and water exercise are
the perfect “rehabilitation” exercise for any time when you get
injured in your primary sport or exercise.
57. Yoga
Yoga is a mixture of physical exercise, breathing control, and
meditation that has both physical and mental health benefits. Yoga
is one of the most popular complementary and alternative medicine
therapies to traditional medical care, and its effectiveness is
supported by a plethora of evidence.
If you are new to yoga, chances are you can get some great
beginner-level instruction at your local gym. If you are too shy, you
may want to try a video-based Yoga class.
Resource: Yoga Burn, which provides a natural way to lose
weight and build a fun exercise habit at the same time.
Resource #2: Grokker which has a wide-range of classes about
Yoga (Read the review here).
While one bad night's sleep is not likely to kill you, the cumulative
effect of months of poor sleeping certainly could lead to some
mistake or health issue that actually could kill you.
59. Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy uses aromatic plants and plant materials (often the
pressed plant's oils) to create a sense of both psychological and
physical well-being.
Homemade Soap
Spa quality bath bombs
Bath salts
Body Butter
Essential Oils
Specialized essential oil mixes
Soothing creams
Exfoliating body scrubs
Moisturizing body lotions
Basically, any aromatic fragrance products that any spa enthusiast
would be proud to use.
Learn exactly what hydration is and feels like. Seek to stay properly
hydrated at all times, as it is life-changing to go from being under-
hydrated to constantly hydrated.
Someone who is fit, eats well and exercises may still have a lot of
issues if they are constantly depressed, anxious, and stressed.
We don’t need to live in some false state of nirvana and happiness.
But it is important from a healthy mental health perspective to try to
put your “best foot forward” mental health-wise when you can.
But walking is and will always be a good baseline. When you get
injured from any other sport, walking will always be a way to
recuperate. When you get older, and fitness gets difficult, walking
becomes a great source of activity.
Does that person eating their second combo meal of the day truly
respect their body?
Does that fourth soda really contribute to self-worth?
Simple self-respect goes the furthest when it comes to eating
healthy.
To make this process a little bit easier, you can use some of the
portion control plates linked below to make the process of eating
right a little bit easier.
Learning good posture is the first step you can take in a positive
direction toward better postural habits to help your spine.
I am not going to make a statement that if you are not doing Paleo,
you are not healthy. (Although some Paleo aficionados would make
that statement for me).
Paleo is a healthy living and healthy eating option. It is not the only
option, but it is a worthwhile option to consider if you want to
change up your lifestyle.
In case you are one of the few people who has never heard of the
paleo diet. In a nutshell, it means eating like our hunter-gatherer
forefathers. Typically, the paleo diet includes meat, vegetables,
fruits, roots, and nuts while avoiding or strictly limiting any food that
is processed, such as dairy, sugars, oils, salt, legumes, grains,
coffee, or alcohol.
Then your genetics plays its part. Genetics may be good to you, or
you may throw snake-eyes and have genetics make it more difficult
to stay healthy as you age.
Either way, staying healthy as you age presents its own unique
series of problems, challenges, and accomplishments to overcome.
If you start in your 20s, building the skill of staying fit as you age is
easy. But if you start to worry about building this skill when you hit
60, you have a much tougher path to fitness.
73. Stretch
Stretching can be one of the most overlooked skills leading to a
healthy lifestyle. Specifically, when you are young, and your
muscles and bones feel loose and limber most of the time, people
may think they don’t need to stretch.
But with running often comes injuries. Learn to get the most from
your running. Learn good technique and learn how to minimize
injuries with this training. If you are going to run, it is important to
learn to do so in a way that minimizes damage and maximizes the
many positive aspects of running.
Communication Skills
Our list of new things to learn keeps going on. Up next are
communication skills.
These are useful things to learn in two major places: business and
personal life. In both of these places, it becomes important to share
your thoughts and learn new things like public speaking.
But the sad truth is that most resumes do not even make it to the
decision-maker. They are screened out of the process due to
resume “issues.”
These bad resumes may:
Deathly dull writing makes everything written simply fade into the
background, like the constant drone from a bee buzzing around the
room.
Being able to put a little bit of flair or personality into your writing is
a big deal. It is essential if you make your living writing and can give
you a big boost over your peers if writing is only part of your job
description.
80. Be Personable
One of the biggest benefits of becoming a unique individual is that
you can now speak with others very directly and in a way, they can't
find elsewhere. That's being personable, and it's invaluable; there is
a priceless process in becoming a priceless person.
When you try this on complicated topics, it helps you build the
ability to come up with succinct responses. Add a few details back
in… and you have your perfect “elevator” speeches.
Speech writing is not a skill everyone needs. Certainly not “all the
time,” but most of us will need to give a handful of speeches in our
lives. (business, wedding, events, etc.)
Truth time: that is not me. I have always been a bit of a shy
introvert. Being reserved and sometimes struggling to make even
basic conversation with strangers.
“But Steve,” you might ask, “I have heard you on podcasts. How
could you do those if you were not a good conversationalist?”
Resource: Conversation Confidence
This just isn’t me. But that is why I hold this skill in such high regard.
It is a skill I am working hard to improve, bit by bit.
You may be an introvert and not inclined to put effort into meeting
strangers and building friendships via networking, but the long term
positive benefits are impossible to ignore.
Business Skills
The list of useful skills to learn has to be topped by business
skills. These skills improve your performance. They get you your
promotions and generally help you to get your job and do it better.
86. Question Conventional Wisdom
Okay, this one is more of a mindset than a skill, but it is worth
mentioning.
In business and life, you will often be told some things “can’t be
done.” You will be given examples of past failures and shown
clearly why some things cannot and will not ever work.
Business relationships are not just the people you network with but
all work interactions.
Here are some of the essential business relationships that will help
you go above and beyond any peers or competition at work:
Find a mentor
Mentor someone else
Join a professional “mastermind” group
Build networking skills
Discover what your boss really wants
Learn how to DO your boss's job. And why this is important
If you want to increase any of these skills, check out the networking
book I wrote with my writing partner Rebecca Livermore, linked
below.
The lesson linked below is literally everything you might ever need
to know about office organization. It is a soup-to-nuts course
covering physically decluttering your office and also the main
element s of digitally decluttering your office.
Resource: Mastering Organization
You have to have the ability to capture the minds and energy of
other people to achieve the things in life that you want to achieve.
Okay, the counter guy at 7-11 might not negotiate on the price of
milk, but most major and important parts of life are open to some
form of negotiating. But how good are your negotiating skills?
Anyone who has a job that is mainly “at the computer” will find all of
these software programs familiar. They (or their generic
equivalents) are the industry standards of work and productivity
tools.
Rather than offer one lone overarching course that might take 100
hours to complete, why not look at the tabbed entry below to find
the best training to suit your specific needs.
In Closing…
These are just 101 new skills to learn that can add value to your life.
Odds are, I will add more to this list in the next few months.
But as we close things out, try to imagine what you would be like if
you were able to develop some of these skills in your life.
If you can just add one or two skills from this list, then that would be
a better use of your time than wasting your time watching T.V. or
playing that latest game on your phone.
Pick one of the skills mentioned in this list and make that
commitment to work on it for the next month. Even if you spend
only 30 minutes a day on this activity, you will have added
something valuable to your life in just a few short weeks. You can
even create a 30-day challenge to dedicate yourself to mastering
this new skill.
Finally, if you'd like a simple resource that can teach you all
the skills on this page, then I recommend checking out the
thousands of courses that are available on this self-education
platform.
Good luck!
Like this post?
I arbitrarily ended this list at 101 skills, but there are hundreds, if not
thousands, of skills that you can build. So, please share your
personal favorite skills to this list to give our readers more ideas.
Thanks!
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