Life skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. They represent the psycho-social skills that determine valued behaviour, reflective skills such as problem-solving and critical thinking and personal skills such as self-awareness and interpersonal relationship skills. Specific emotional, cognitive, behavioural and resilience skills play a vital part in ensuring an student’s personal and social success. Additional skills, such as emotional, cognitive, behavioral and resilience development in adolescents will help them to navigate their psychological push backs for high risk behaviour and negative mental wellbeing. These skills are known to be key contributors to negotiating and mediating challenges that young people face in becoming productive citizens. There is a growing demand to educate adolescents with life skills, to help them deal with their day to day life challenges and transition into adulthood with informed healthy choices. The goal of life skills education is to equip individuals with appropriate knowledge on risk taking behaviours and develop skills such as communication, assertiveness, self-awareness, decision-making, problem solving, critical and creative thinking to protect them from abuse and exploitation (UNICEF, 2015; WHO, 1993). Life skills education aims to impart knowledge for attitude change and behaviour modification through holistic learning experiences aimed at developing not only knowledge and attitudes but also the skills needed for an individual to make informed decisions for positive behavior change in future. It further helps school students to deal with complex problems in their future workplace. In this article the author intents to highlight the relationship of life skills with that of self-confidence and social intelligence.