marriage and family life unit 2: making personal decisions
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Marriage and Family Life
Unit 2: Making Personal Decisions
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Objective 1: Identify common areas requiring a personal decision.
• Career • Education• Goals • Lifestyle • Marriage
• Parenthood• Religious beliefs • Sexual activity• Values
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Objective 2: Identify the relationship among decision-making, consequences,and personal well-being.
• Decisions can affect your physical health.• Decisions can affect your mental health.• Some decisions involve other people, even if
you don’t realize it.• Decisions should reflect careful thought and
consideration.
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Objective 3: Identify factors that influence decision making. • Ambition • Beliefs• Confidence • Culture• Environment • Family• Friends
• Goals• Media • Needs and wants• Resources • Self-image• Values
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Objective 4: Analyze consequences and decisions when given a scenario.
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Objective 5: Identify the relationship between personal goals and decisionmaking.
• Goals affect decision making and decision making affects goals.
• Goals can help guide you in making decisions. • When you make decisions with a plan in mind,
you can focus on what you need to do and narrow your choices.
• Throughout your life you will make decisions. • Long-term goals can change over time.
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Objective 6: Explore personal goals and values.
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Objective 7: Arrange in order the steps in the decision-making process.
• Identify the decision to be made.
• Prioritize your goals. • Evaluate your
resources.• Collect and explore
information that relates to the decision.
• Identify possible options.
• Evaluate the consequences of each option.
• Choose the best option.• Implement your
decision. • Evaluate the results of
your decision.
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Objective 8: Identify skills useful in decision making.
• Analysis/critical thinking
• Common sense• Communication • Creativity• Intuition • Organization
• Objectivity• Planning • Recognizing
alternatives • Resource
management • Seeking appropriate
advice
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Objective 9: Apply the decision-making process.
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Objective 10: Select strategies for managing time.• Group similar tasks• Make a to-do list• Make use of pockets of time• Automate repetitive tasks• Delegate tasks• Use a monthly calendar and daily planner• Use a clock or timer to set time limits for yourself
to complete a task• Plan calls and e-mails
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Objective 11: Select strategies for handling stress. • Exercise• Find a hobby• Eat right• Get plenty of rest• Participate in recreation that is unlike work• Accept what cannot be changed• Avoid self-medication• Deal with only one thing at a time• Be realistic• Share your feelings
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Objective 12: Complete a time management exercise.