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141 T he S tandard D rink in M exico | L ife skills and tools that they have taken advantage and enjoyed their time. Some alternatives can be sports, the arts, cultural activities or sciences. 5. Life project: It is everything that one wants to end up being and doing. A life project helps establish short, medium and long term goals; it leads one to meditate on who one is and what it is one wishes. One can say that a life project has to do with dreams and personal yearnings, at the same time, it helps in motivating and giving life sense, without forgetting the importance of living in the present so as to clear the path that leads us to our goals. The life project promotes the priorization of elements in function of their relevance in reaching objectives or goals and one’s personal commitment. A harmful use of alcohol can damage the body and interpersonal and work relationships, thus blocking the realization of one’s life project. All these skills and tools constitute protective factors and they promote the development of a person’s resilience, which is the ability to overcome adverse conditions and situations that may present theirselves throughout life. They imply handling one’s emotions, making decisions and responsibility. In “Alcohol and Public Policies” (2012) we find that: “It is important to consider that education in life skills is a process that requires a recurrent, repeated and intensive training (UNESCO, 2004), as