1. Are You Mature?

2. What is maturity? Number 1 The ability to understand our own deepest feelings and needs AND to be able to EXPRESS these feelings and needs in appropriate and constructive ways.

3. Number 2 The ability to think through our actions and consider their consequences.

4. The ability to respect the feelings and needs of others. Number 3

5. The ability to delay immediate satisfaction in order to reach long-term goals. Number 4

7. Number 5 The ability to love—to think of another’s needs as if they were your own.

8. The ability to adapt flexibly and creatively to life’s changes. Number 6

9. Not to pout or emotionally blackmail others but to . . .

10. Channel our energy into constructive, beneficial activities. Number 7

11. Number 8 The willingness to be responsible and accountable for our own actions.

12. Number 9 The ability to form healthy relationships and to limit or end destructive or unhealthy ones.

13. When I am at the end of my rope, I ASK FOR HELP! The final sign of maturity