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Life Management

Life Management

Author(s): Lisa Amos

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2025

Pages: 568

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$62.00 USD

ISBN 9798385157884

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Life Management is a comprehensive digital textbook designed to guide students to develop lifelong success skills for making productive life decisions.  Topics covered include Values, Self-Belief, Goal Setting, Time Management, Managing Change and Stress, Developing Thinking Skills, Study Skills, Career Planning, Financial Wellness, Eating Well and Staying Healthy, Living in a Diverse World, Effective Communication, Leadership, and more.

Module 1: Values and Self-Belief 
Module 2: Goal Setting
Module 3: Time Management
Module 4: Managing Change and Stress
Module 5: Thinking Skills
Module 6: Learning Processes and Study Strategies
Module 7: Education and Career Planning
Module 8: Managing Your Money: Foundations
Module 9: Managing Your Money: Credit Basics
Module 10: Eating Well
Module 11: Staying Healthy
Module 12: Diversity
Module 13: Communicating Effectively
Module 14: Functioning in Groups

Lisa Amos

Lisa J. Amos, AFC® and CPFFE, is a Professor Emeritus of Family and Consumer Studies at Mt. San Antonio College. She began teaching Life Management at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA, in 2002 and retired in December 2025.

A passionate educator, Lisa values the student as an individual and strives to ensure the class materials for Life Management classes are innovative, up-to-date, and interactive. This project initially became a reality in Spring 2018. This 2nd edition is a complete rewrite and restructuring to ensure students have the tools they need to be successful in a Life Management type class, as well as in their lives.

Lisa has a B.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences from Iowa State University and a M.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences from California State University, Northridge. Go Cyclones and Go Matadors!!

Since July 2024, Lisa has been living in the south-central mountains in New Mexico, in a small idyllic mountain town overrun by wild horses, deer, and elk.

Life Management is a comprehensive digital textbook designed to guide students to develop lifelong success skills for making productive life decisions.  Topics covered include Values, Self-Belief, Goal Setting, Time Management, Managing Change and Stress, Developing Thinking Skills, Study Skills, Career Planning, Financial Wellness, Eating Well and Staying Healthy, Living in a Diverse World, Effective Communication, Leadership, and more.

Module 1: Values and Self-Belief 
Module 2: Goal Setting
Module 3: Time Management
Module 4: Managing Change and Stress
Module 5: Thinking Skills
Module 6: Learning Processes and Study Strategies
Module 7: Education and Career Planning
Module 8: Managing Your Money: Foundations
Module 9: Managing Your Money: Credit Basics
Module 10: Eating Well
Module 11: Staying Healthy
Module 12: Diversity
Module 13: Communicating Effectively
Module 14: Functioning in Groups

Lisa Amos
Lisa Amos

Lisa J. Amos, AFC® and CPFFE, is a Professor Emeritus of Family and Consumer Studies at Mt. San Antonio College. She began teaching Life Management at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA, in 2002 and retired in December 2025.

A passionate educator, Lisa values the student as an individual and strives to ensure the class materials for Life Management classes are innovative, up-to-date, and interactive. This project initially became a reality in Spring 2018. This 2nd edition is a complete rewrite and restructuring to ensure students have the tools they need to be successful in a Life Management type class, as well as in their lives.

Lisa has a B.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences from Iowa State University and a M.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences from California State University, Northridge. Go Cyclones and Go Matadors!!

Since July 2024, Lisa has been living in the south-central mountains in New Mexico, in a small idyllic mountain town overrun by wild horses, deer, and elk.