Analyze personal factors (e.g., values, personality traits, education, economic situations, life changes) that can alter a life-management plan.

Analysis should include

  • factors such as life cycle stages, life changes, societal and personal circumstances, shifting goals, death, job loss
  • examples of situations reflecting these factors and an examination of the choices available to people in these circumstances.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

  • What factors will affect specific choices, such as education, family formation, or career?
  • What kinds of behavior reflect the universal values of honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, loyalty, fairness, caring, respect, responsibility, pursuit of excellence, and accountability?
  • What is the relationship between universal values and life planning?

Communication

  • Where do you acquire your beliefs and attitudes about life planning?
  • What can you learn about yourself from developing a life-management plan?
  • How do your values affect your life choices?

Leadership

  • How can you use leadership skills and techniques to convince others of the importance of life planning?
  • Are leaders more apt to develop a life-management plan than other people are? Why or why not?
  • What leadership skills help you identify your personal strengths and limitations?
  • What leadership skills help you take personal responsibility for the choices you make?

Management

  • What information is needed to assess factors that affect life planning? Where can you get that information?
  • Why would management skills be important in dealing with the factors that affect life planning?