Bolles WCIYP: 1991, p.232-237; 276-283; .1992, p.248-253; 293-300 defines self-management skills (SMS) as:

• How well you value, perform or do things
• Your manner and behaviour
• Also called interpersonal skills; adaptive skills, traits
• Normally adverbs

A: Steps

1. Review all the SM skills in section C below.
2. Copy top 10 SM skills to "Top 10" section B below.  
3. Select the top 5 and place them here in the color red: (optimistic; imaginative; flexible; emphathetic; curious)
   1. In all the aggregating posts your create that include a link to this SM skills post, add the list of top 5 above at the end of the link to this post.
   2. Add top 5 to your skill activity phrase post
   3. Setup a Google Alert for your top 5. (No quotes and remove semicolons)
      

Compare and relate to O*NET skills. If you don't like the wording of a SMS, or you do not see a SMS that you use, add it below.

B: My top 10 SMSs in priority sequence copied from the list below.

1. optimistic; optimism: (ext=impractical)
2. imaginative: (ext=dreamer)
3. flexible; flexibility; versatile: (ext=indecisive, changeable)
4. empathy; empathetic
5. curious; curiosity: (ext=nosy, meddler)
6. attention to details; meticulous
7. creative; creativity: (ext=dreamer)
8. .
9. .
10. .

C: Below is the list of SMSs in alphabeticle order. I copied my top 10 and prioritized them above.

The "(ext=...)" refers to what will happen if you take this SMS to extremes.

1. alert; alertness
2. assertive; assertiveness
3. astute; astuteness
4. attains set goals
5. attention to details; meticulous
6. authentic; authenticity
7. calm; calmness
8. candid (in dealing with others); candidness
9. capable
10. character
11. commitment to
12. competent; competence
13. competitive, able, capable
14. concentration
15. conscientious
16. courage; courageous: (ext=reckless)
17. creative; creativity: (ext=dreamer)
18. curious; curiosity: (ext=nosy, meddler)
19. deals well with the material world,
20. decisive: (ext=dogmatic)
21. easy-going: (ext=careless, lax)
22. emotionally stable (ility)
23. empathy; empathetic
24. enthusiastic; enthusiasm: (ext=overbearing, indifference)
25. expressive
26. firm; firmness: (ext=rigid)
27. flexible; flexibility; versatile: (ext=indecisive, changeable)
28. generous; generosity: (ext=wasteful)
29. genuine
30. high energy level
31. honest; honesty
32. imaginative: (ext=dreamer)
33. initiating; initiative
34. innovative; innovation
35. insight; insightful; discriminating
36. integrity
37. intuitive
38. loyal; loyalty
39. objective: (ext=insensitive)
40. open-minded; open-mindedness
41. optimistic; optimism: (ext=impractical)
42. orderly; orderliness: (ext=compulsive)
43. original
44. patient; patience
45. perform well under stress
46. perservering; perserverance: (ext=stubborn)
47. persisting; persistent; persistence: (ext=stubborn)
48. personable
49. playful; playfulness
50. poise; poised
51. politeness
52. productive; productivity
53. punctual; punctuality
54. reliable; reliability
55. resourceful: (ext=scheming, manipulative<)
56. responsible; responsibility
57. risk taker; speculator: (ext=gambler)
58. self-confident; confidence: (ext=arrogant)
59. self-controlled; self-control
60. self-reliant; reliance
61. self-respect; pride: sense of humor
62. sincere; sincerity
63. spontaneous; spontaneity
64. tactful; tactfulness
65. tolerant; tolerance
66. versatile; versatility

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See a list of other SM Skills in this SDS report.

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8/27/07 - SMS.XLS matrix of all SMS words with xreferences at C:UsersPete HubbardDocumentsCareerLWPSLWPS on Pair-comHPHLWPSLWPSkillsSMS.xls *

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