1. Reaching Your Potential
FACS
Chapter One

2. Objectives
How to identify strategies to reach your potential and make the most of your resources
Why goals are important
The relationships between short- and long-term goals
Guidelines to help you achieve goals

3. Terms we will Learn Community Resources Goal Human resources
Long-term Goals
Material Resources
Natural resources
Potential
Priorities
Resource
Resourceful
Self-Confidence
Short-term Goals

4. Who are you today? Make a collage showing who you are.
Describe yourself to me through your collage
We will present these to the class

5. Think About. . . What are some of your dreams or goals?
What progress have you made in achieving some of them?
What obstacles must you overcome to reach your dreams?
Write an essay answering these questions.

6. What is Self-Confidence?
Confidence in yourself and in your abilities

7. What is your Potential? Potential
The possibility of becoming more than they are right now
Reaching your potential means becoming all you can be

8. How can you reach your potential?
Keep your efforts focused.
Set Priorities
What are Priorities?
Determining what is important to you and ranking those thinks in order of importance
Check out your interests and activities
Choose friends who support you
Be Health-Smart
Use your potential in a positive way

9. Resources Impact Potential
What is a resource?
Anything that you use to help accomplish something

10. Types of Resources Human Resources
Resources that have to do with People
Examples
Time, energy, and knowledge

11. Types of Resources Material Resources Examples
Money, property, supplies, time, and tools

12. Types of Resources Community resources Examples
Libraries, schools, churches, hospitals, clinics, and parks

13. Types of Resources Natural Resources Resources that occur in nature
Examples
Everything in the natural environment such as water, trees, oil

14. Types of Resources Activity
On the wall you will find chart paper that includes the four types of resources
In groups you will write examples of these resources on the paper.
When I ring the bell you will move to the next resource and continue as you did with the first.
After completing all of the resources you will be back at the first resource that you started with.
As a groups and using the rest of the classes answers you will make a graphic organizer describing your resource
These will be presented to the class

15. The Importance of Goals
Something you plan to do, be, or have.
Something you are willing to work for

16. Types of Goals Short-term Goals Long-term Goals
Goals that can be accomplished in the near future
Long-term Goals
Goals that are far-reaching and take time to achieve

17. What are your goals?
On the back of your Who I Am collage, make another collage telling me Who You Want To Be.
Include your short and long term goals
What do you plan to do with your life
Who do you want to become?

18. Achieving your Goals Keep your goals in Mind
Stay active with your goals
Be determined

19. What Would You Do?
Imagine a close friend set a goal to lose a certain amount of weight. Based on what you have learned in your classes, you think the goal is an unhealthy one. Your friend is upset because you and her other friends are not supportive of her goal. She thinks all of you are undermining her intentions to improve her appearance. How would you handle the situation?

20. Making the Connection
Find examples of songs with references to goals that someone wishes to achieve, has achieved, or failed to achieve.
Play the music or present the lyrics to your class
Discuss the impact music has on how well you and your classmates achieve goals.

21. Chapter 1 Quiz Define Potential Define Priorities
Give six examples of community resources
How are resources used to achieve goals?