Marriage and Family Life

Unit 2: Making Personal Decisions

Objective 1: Identify common areas requiring a personal decision.

• Career • Education• Goals • Lifestyle • Marriage

• Parenthood• Religious beliefs • Sexual activity• Values

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.

Objective 3: Identify factors that influence decision making. • Ambition • Beliefs• Confidence • Culture• Environment • Family• Friends

• Goals• Media • Needs and wants• Resources • Self-image• Values

Objective 4: Analyze consequences and decisions when given a scenario.

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.

Objective 6: Explore personal goals and values.

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.

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

Objective 9: Apply the decision-making process.

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

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

Objective 12: Complete a time management exercise.