values

• Decision-making


  Process by which people choose a particular action after weighing and analyzing different options
• Some decisions will prove to be critical
• The problem with bad decision-making is when people decide and act on things without assessing possible options and considering the outcomes
• Decisions


  • Should not be dictated by emotions and by other people
  • One should spend time in contemplating possible alternatives and in choosing the option that would help him/her become a better individual
  • All decisions have lasting effects in the future, whether good or bad
• Steps in Decision-Making


  1. Identify the decision to be made

  2. Gather relevant information

  3. Identify alternatives

  4. Weigh evidences

  5. Make the decision

  6. Evaluate the decision made
• Personal Mission Statement


  • Provides clarity and gives you a sense of purpose
  • Defines who a person is and how he/she will live
  • Serves as a brief description of what people want to become, or what they want to do in their lives at a particular age

  
• Personal Mission Statement


  • Aids people in doing the right actions

  
• Example of Personal Mission Statement


  • To finish your education and help your family
• In formulating the Personal Mission Statement

  1. Take an inventory of your vision of yourself in the future, your talents and skills, your hobbies and interests, your passion, your values and virtues

  2. Determine your priorities in life

  3. Create a statement that includes your goal and the method of attaining it

  
• The steps in formulating the personal mission statement could also serve as a guide for people in planning out their future career

  
• Setting their vision or their goals in life gives them a clearer view of how they see themselves in the future, the things they want to attain, or the person they want to be
• The personal mission statement also requires the people to investigate their skills, talents, hobbies, and interests which are considered as good and important basis of what career path they should take

  
• Every day teenagers make decisions - from the simplest ones to the more complex situations
• Decision-making, whether simple or complex, requires a deeper understanding of the possibilities that might result from it
• You shouldn't be impulsive and get easily influenced by emotions
• It is necessary for you, as teenagers, to learn that it is important to weigh different options before making a final decision