Decision
Making
1. Your goals and decisions should
be based upon your Values?
2. A short term goal is achieved in
a Week to Six months.
3. Long term goals take Months,
Years or a Life Time.
“BEE Prepared”
What do we need
to do to “Bee”
prepared?
How does making decisions
help you to be prepared?
The
Decision
Making
Process
The
Steps in
the
Decision
Making
Process
Identify the Problem
The
Steps in
the
Decision
Making
Process
Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Identify the Problem
The
Steps in
the
Decision
Making
Process
Explore and Evaluate
Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Identify the Problem
The
Steps in
the
Decision
Making
Process
Make a Decision,
Plan, Act on Decision
Explore and Evaluate
Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Identify the Problem
The
Steps in
the
Decision
Making
Process
Evaluate the
results of the
decision
Make a Decision,
Plan, Act on Decision
Explore and Evaluate
Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Identify the Problem
The Steps in The Decision
Making Process
IBEEDE
Step #1 Identify the
Problem
Which College Should I attend?
Step #2: Brainstorm Possible
Solutions
Write down a list or possible ideas
or ways to solve the problem.
Example: Dixie College
Utah State University
Weber State University
Boston College
Step #3: Explore and Evaluate
 Look at each possibility and write down
the pros and cons or each.
 DC
 USU
 WSU
 BC
Pros
Pros
Pros
Pros
Cons
Cons
Cons
Cons
 Pros and Cons should include costs,
distance from home, friends choices etc.
Step #4: Make a Decision and Act
on It!
From your list of choices select
one that seems the best to you.
Act!
Step #5: Look At Results of
Decision and Evaluate
What
influences
your
decisions?
Other Commitments
Self Image
Parental Expectations
Society’s Expectations
Peer Pressure
Cost vs. Benefit
 Before making a decision, weigh the cost vs.
benefit.
 In the story, Country Mouse thinks about
what he likes (the benefits), and then he
thinks about what he does not like (the
costs), and then he makes a decision to stay
or go home.
http://216.36.206.143/Country_Mouse/storybook/storybook.htm
Choice vs. Chance
 Every day we make choices based on
the chance that certain events might
occur.
 We estimate the probability for the
event to occur.
 Then we examine the consequence of
the event and make a decision.
People and the Effects of Their
Decisions
Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman-
(November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an
American football player who left his
professional career and enlisted in the
United States Army in June 2002 in the
aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Tillman joined the Army Rangers and
served several tours in combat before he
died in the mountains of Afghanistan. At
first, the Army reported that Tillman had
been killed by enemy fire. Controversy
ensued when a month later, on May 28,
2004, the Pentagon notified the Tillman
family that he had died as a result of a
friendly fire incident
James Francis "Jim" Thorpe
(Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as
"Bright Path" May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953)
Jim was an American athlete of Native
American and European ancestry.
Considered one of the most versatile
athletes of modern sports, he won
Olympic gold medals for the 1912
pentathlon and decathlon, played
American football (collegiate and
professional), and also played professional
baseball and basketball.
He lost his Olympic titles after it was found
he was paid for playing two seasons of
semi-professional baseball before
competing in the Olympics, thus violating
the amateurism rules that were then in
place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
restored his Olympic medals.
Rosa ParksOn December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks
refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that
she give up her seat in the colored section to a white
passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was
not the first person to resist bus segregation. Others
had taken similar steps, including Irene Morgan in 1946,
Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and the members of the
Browder v. Gayle lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia
Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who
were arrested in Montgomery months before Parks.
NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best
candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her
arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama
segregation laws, although eventually her case became
bogged down in the state courts while the Browder v.
Gayle case succeeded.[2][3]
Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights
Movement. She became an international icon of
resistance to racial segregation. She organized and
collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar
Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and
Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who
gained national prominence in the civil rights
movement.
Queen Isabella of Spain22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504
She and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon,
brought stability to the kingdoms that became
the basis for the political unification of Spain
under their grandson, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V. After a struggle to claim her right to
the throne, she reorganized the governmental
system, brought the crime rate to the lowest it
had been in years, and unburdened the kingdom
of the enormous debt her brother had left
behind. Her reforms and those she made with
her husband had an influence that extended well
beyond the borders of their united kingdoms.
Isabella and Ferdinand are known for completing
the Reconquista, ordering conversion or exile of
their Muslim and Jewish subjects in the Spanish
Inquisition, and for supporting and financing
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage that led to
the opening of the New World. In most instances,
she was more influential than her husband.
How will your decisions
effect your future?
Resources:
-Wikipedia