1. Getting to Know Yourself
Horizons Chapter 1
Getting to Know Yourself

2. How you see yourself
Aptitude – Your natural talents and abilities you are born with.
Example – Teacher should be introverted or extraverted?
Skills – Things you have learned to do well.
The ability to read and write, do electrical work, understanding plumbing, computers, math, physics and etc…
Note, these are things we LEARN IN SCHOOL.

3. How you see yourself Values – are things that are important to you.
Ethics, morals, friends, family, environment, money, and etc…
Attitude – how you view things in life.
Positive or negative, optimistic or pessimistic, hate or compassion, and etc…

4. Differences Interests, Aptitudes and Skills Values and Attitudes Art
Friends
Music
Helping Others
Sports
Family/Culture
Technology
Health/Fitness
Math
Attitudes
Science
Language Arts
Media
History

5. Rank the Following Values
Teenage Values Across Canada
Percentage of importance
Friendship 91
Being Loved 87
Freedom 84
Success 78
A comfortable life 75
Privacy 68
Family Life 65
Excitement 58
Recognition 41
Being Popular 21
Values
Friendship
Freedom
Privacy
Being Popular
Recognition
Excitement
Being Loved
Success
Comfortable Life
Family Life

6. Family Influence
Families and those that are important in our lives vastly influence our own lives.
They influence the way we think, the way we behave, what we value, how we do things, what we like and dislike.
Father teaching me how to think from all different angels.
List three examples that show how your family has influenced you.

7. What has affected your life
Major events in our life will affect us. While some of these events may look negative, they always happen for a reason.
Five things that have vastly impacted my life:
1) Moving from Rosthern to Saskatoon
2) Dating a German exchange student
3) Moving to Ottawa
4) Meeting my wife in Ottawa
5) Having a beautiful daughter

8. What interests you? Things interest us for a reason.
These things impact our lives, they help determine who you are and what you may become one day.
Most of our interests are via aptitudes and skills.
List six things that interest you.

9. What do others think of me?
We spend a lot of time wondering what others think of us – most of the time we go down the negative road.
But if we look at the positives, we can help reinforce the things that we are good at.
Think of five words that your friends would use to describe you.

10. Activities
List ten activities that you enjoy doing. Identify the ones that you do outside, inside and ones that involve other people.