1. Solving Problems in Your Life
Chapter Nine
Solving Problems in Your Life

2. with a dilemma that must be
Identifying Problems
Problems- Situation
with a dilemma that must be
solved or worked out.
Simple Problems
Little Impact
Low Impact
Harder to Handle
High Impact
Serious and Critical Problems
Social Problems
Beyond impact on yourself

3. Identifying Problems Symptom vs. Problem Approaching Problems
Symptom: offer clues to help identify problems – being late to everything
Problem: underlying cause of issue – poor time management skills
Approaching Problems
Procrastination *putting something off*
Denial *not facing the fact a problem exists*
Positive Approach *feel confident when you have the skills*

4. Management Process- Setting goals and maintaining planned steps
Helps accomplish tasks
Channels direction of your life
Helps Solve Problems
Make Goals Specific
Establish time frame
Show accountability
Write Goals Down
Long term Goals: - take several months or years
Short term Goals: - don’t take long to achieve, maybe hours to a few weeks

5. Resources- Whatever you can use to help set goals and solve problems
Management Process
Resources- Whatever you can use to help set goals and solve problems
Types of resources
Human resources
People who can help you achieve goals
Material Resources
Physical items, books, money, computers
Community Resources
Facilities like libraries, schools, senior centers, even prisons

6. Management Process
How to make sound decisions: (Considering possibilities and then takes
course of action or makes judgment)
Learn to recognize important decisions,
spend more time on those
Base decisions on values, you have to live
with yourself after
Avoid impulsive reactions/decisions, rarely
turn out well
Make your own decisions, don’t let others
influence you negatively
Make decisions when you are clear headed
Base decisions on research and facts

7. You will have to live with them.
**YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR YOUR
OWN DECISIONS!!**
You will have to live with them.

8. People will respect you more if you take responsibility when you make a mistake.
People will NOT respect or trust you if you lie, make excuses or blame others.
If you take credit for what you do correctly, be mature enough to take the blame if you make the mistake.
Mistakes offer some of life’s best opportunities to learn. 

9. Thinking skills Take Ethical actions
Use reasoning (Thinking logically in order to reach conclusions)
Take Ethical actions
Ethics- Moral rules of society (What’s the right thing to do; what will happen to you and others???)
Values – Does your decision reflect what you hold important to you/your family?

10. Problem- Solving Process
Identify the problem
Identify options/ possible course of action
Evaluate options/gather information/consider consequences (results of actions)
Chose best option
Make a plan
Carry out plan
Evaluate what happened/Study results of your actions

11. There will always be problems to solve,
DO NOT LET
PROBLEMS OVERWHELM
YOU!!
There will always be problems to solve,
just learn how to do that and life
will flow more smoothly. 