COPING WITH LIFE
THE ESSENTIAL SKILL LEADING TO ALL ELSE



DEFINITION

Cope:  To meet, encounter - to deal with problems, troubles, etc. to fight or contend with successfully or on equal terms.


THE COPING SKILL

Those who succeed "meet and encounter" what is a problem or is in the way and then contend with it successfully.

In order to do this, always the first step is to be aware of what is needed and what is going on, to look purposefully and then to adjust.  When one does this well one can live life like a champion
It is our objective to be

Coping statements for life's problems 
Stress coping strategies
Coping with death, grief, loss 


TO BE ABLE TO COPE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL

To be able to cope at the highest level, one must:

1.  Develop wisdom,
2.  Learn as much as one can in thinking skills and especially problem-
    solving and decisionmaking and
3.  keep oneself at the highest state of resourcefulness.

Implement those strategies.