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Section 12-4 Strategies for Healthful Personal Development 315
These are just some of the potential roadblocks that you may be
facing now, or may face in the years ahead. Others may also lie in your
path as you move toward adulthood.
What Tactics Can Aid Personal
Development?
Learning some tactics that can aid in your personal development
may be helpful to you in overcoming these roadblocks, should any occur.
Avoiding risks along the way is one of the keys to avoiding roadblocks.
Building relationships with people is another skill that will help you in
your personal development.
Avoid High-Risk Behavior
Risks involve uncertainty, and they often have an element of danger.
There may even be the possibility of harm or loss. Risk-taking behaviors are
common among teens. It is a normal part of their desire for independence.
Some teens get a natural high from taking risks. They feel alert, excited,
and alive. Others like to take risks to prove they can stretch the limits
and succeed.
12-5
A stressful period at work
may interfere with the
quality of your life.