1. Happiness Popularity Safety Integrity Future Goals Money
Write down the top 5 things that you value.
Happiness Popularity Safety Integrity Future Goals Money
Athletics Immediate Gratification Friends Family Acceptance Faith
Academics Dating Music Art Dance Cheerleading

3. What is the worst decision you have made?

4. WHY???? Why did you do it? Why do people make dumb decisions?
Why is decision making important?

5. You are a result of your past decisions
Your future is based on your decisions today

6. Important Decisions in High School
Friends
Classes
College
Activities/ Sports
Stress
Nutrition
Drugs
Relationships
Sex
Time
Future

7. Decision Making Model Consider values State Situation
List the possible options
Weigh outcomes
Consider values
Make decision
Evaluate

8. Consider your values. What do you really value?
Happiness
Popularity
Safety
Integrity
Future Goals
Making Parents Angry
Immediate Gratification
Friends
Family
Acceptance

9. “What you value most is what you will sacrifice all else for!!!”
What do you value?

10. What have these people sacrificed because of their decisions?
FAMILY
REPUTATION
CAREER
CAREER
FREEDOM
HALL OF FAME
What have these people sacrificed because of their decisions?
FREEDOM
MONEY
CAREER
FREEDOM
MONEY
REPUTATION
LIFE

11. Other Possible Obstacles to Wise Choices
Brain development
Moods
Hormones
Peer Pressure
Family Background
Experience
Stress
Habits
Self Deception

12. Every kind of Addiction begins with similar self-deception.
“This won’t hurt anybody”
“I’ll only do it once”
“I’ll be careful”
“I can handle it”
“I can quit whenever I want”
“It’s no big deal”
“I’ll be safe”
“I’m not stupid about it”
“I’m not doing anything wrong”
“People do it all the time”
“I’m not hurting anyone”
“Nobody’s going to find out”
“Nothing bad is going to happen”
“All my friends are doing it”

13. YOU Standard of Judgment
Who determines if a decision is wrong or right?
Parents, teachers, counselors, police, minister, God, friends
YOU

14. What are 2 things that keep you from making wise decisions?
Moods
Hormones
Peer Pressure
Family Background
Experience
Stress
Habits
Self Deception
Other

15. “What you value most is what you will sacrifice all else for!!!”
What do you value?

16. How do you make a wise decision?
WISE- discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true and false, proper or improper

17. Just answer this one question:
Is this a wise thing to do?

18. 1. “Based on previous experience, is this a wise thing to do?”
“Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
2. “Based on current circumstances, what is the wise thing to do?”
Angry, depressed, stressed, happy, worried?
Life is seasonal

19. 3. “Based on future goals, what is the wise thing to do today?”
Mental picture of the future
“You are tomorrow what you choose to be today”

20. What starts every great accomplishment?
“Greatness is never an accident”

21. Goal Setting Process Select Goal
Describe steps it will take to reach goal.
Identify sources of help
Set a reasonable time frame
Establish checkpoints

22. There are only 2 great pains in life:
1. Discipline 2. Regret
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."

23. Dream Wreckers Most people’s dream don’t come true.
We wreck our future with bad decisions today
What are you willing to risk all your dreams for?
A moment, a habit, a weekend, a promise, a party, a friend, a boyfriend/ girlfriend?