Title: Analyze personal factors (e.g., values, personality traits, education, economic situations, life changes) that can alter a life-management plan.
Course: Life Planning (19257-18) > Section: Developing 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?