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• 4 Ways to Value your Personal Relationship


  • Relive your history
  • Get creative
  • Give a gift of meaning
  • Be his/her champion
  • Listen more to how he/she feels
  • Follow through with your commitments
• Relive your history


  One of the great things about a relationship is the shared history that you have with your partner
• Get creative


  Write a poem about your partner's best qualities
• Give a gift of meaning


  Use your knowledge of your partner to give a meaningful gift
• Be his/her champion


  Showing that you support him/her even when they are wrong is an incredible demonstration of your intention to stay by his/her side, no matter what
• Listen more to how he/she feels


  If you take the time to truly listen to your partner without planning your response, your partner will feel like you understand them in a way that no one else does
• Follow through with your commitments


  When you follow through with these commitments, it shows your partner that you value him/her and the relationship-above everything else
• It's time to evaluate your own relationship to heighten your awareness of valuing personal relationship
• No matter how busy you are


  You should always find time for those you love
• You might have plenty of important tasks and meetings


  Your partner, parent or friend may understand it
• Ways to show love without words

  1. Pick the phone to call them and ask how their day is going

  2. Take a small break and drink coffee together

  3. Have a weekend picnic
• Listen to them


  Listen to each word they say even when it's boring or you just don't like the topic of conversation
• If they ask you whether they've told you this story before

  Say "Yes, but could you tell it again because I've forgotten some details?"
• Kisses and hugs


  A great way to express your love without using words
• Making their life easier

  1. Take out the trash

  2. Buy necessary foods without being asked

  3. Do something they enjoy doing
• Random surprise


  Doing something unexpected that shows you listen and pay attention to what they like
• Sending a care package

  Send a package of the small things you know they'll need or like
• Cooking for them


  1. Figure out their favorite meal and try to make it

  2. Cook it and surprise the person at their workplace or college
• When someone makes a mistake


  Support them instead of saying "I told you so"
• Family is the basic unit in the society traditionally consisting of parents and children living together in a household
• Different Structures of Family

  • Nuclear Family
  • Extended Family
  • Single
  • Step Family
• Nuclear Family


  Consists of a mother, father, and the children. The nuclear family is also choosing to have fewer children than in the past.
• Extended Family


  Consists of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the nuclear family.
• Single


  A single parent is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of the other biological parent. Historically, single-parent families often resulted from death of a spouse, for instance during childbirth.
• Step Family


  A stepfamily is a family where at least one parent has children that are not genetically related to the other spouse or partner. Either one parent may have children from a previous relationship. Children in a stepfamily may live with one biological parent, or they may live with each biological parent for a period of time. In addition, visitation rights mean that children in stepfamilies often have contact with both biological parents, even if they permanently live with only one.
• Career includes all the roles you undertake throughout your life- education, training, paid and unpaid work, family, volunteer work, leisure activities and more. "Career" was traditionally associated with paid employment and referred to a single occupation. In today's world the term career is seen as a continuous process of learning and development.
• Activities that contribute to a career

  • Training
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Work experience
  • Community activities
  • Enterprise activities
  • Different life roles
  • Volunteer work
  • Leisure activities
• Rapid changes in information and communication technologies, increasing globalization, and greater competition, are all contributing to a dramatic change in working life, which will have an impact on your career. The concept of a job for life is no longer a reality.
• In this new climate, individuals need to be adaptable, dynamic, innovative, flexible, resilient, self-initiating and collaborative to accommodate and thrive in workplaces, or to create work for themselves
• Making the best career choices involves

  • Knowing yourself-what you like (your interests), what you are good at (your skills and abilities), what is important to you (values)
  • Getting to understand the world of work-what's out there
  • Learning how to make informed decisions
  • Finding out how to achieve objectives
• Influence Factors

  • Skills and Abilities
  • Interest and Personality Type
  • Life Roles
  • Previous Experiences
  • Culture
  • Gender
  • Social and Economic Conditions
  • Childhood Fantasies
• Skills and Abilities


  Considering your skills and abilities and how you may fit a particular occupation comes out of one of the earliest career development fields, Trait-Factor theories, and is still used today.
• Interest and Personality Type


  Is a widely used to connect personality types and career fields. This theory establishes a classification system that matches personality characteristics and personal preferences to job characteristics.
• Life Roles


  Being a worker is just one of your life roles, in addition to others such as, student, parent, and child.
• Previous Experiences


  Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider options for ourselves.
• Culture


  Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of an individual's regional area, local community and extended family, may impact career decisions.
• Gender


  Both men and women have experienced career-related stereotypes. Gender is a factor included in multiple career development theories and approaches including Social Learning and multicultural career counseling. How we view ourselves as individuals may influence both the opportunities and barriers we perceive as we make career decisions.
• Social and Economic Conditions


  All of our career choices take place within the context of society and the economy. Several career theories, such as Social Cognitive Career Theory and Social Learning, address this context in addition to other factors. Events that take place in our lives may affect the choices available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain degree. Changes in the economy and resulting job market may also affect how our careers develop.
• Childhood Fantasies


  What do you want to be when you grow-up? You may remember this question from your childhood, and it may have helped shape how you thought about careers then, as well as later in life. Career counseling theories are expanding as programs related to career choice are developed for all ages, including the very young.