Module 4: Decisive Person

Activity: Fortune on
Wheels
Activity: Fortune on
Wheels
 Processing
Questions:
1. How did you come up with such decisions?
2. Who influenced your decision-making skills?
3. Are you happy with your decisions? Why?
 Activity: You
Decide!
Read the following statements. Carefully decide on
the best thing to do when faced with these
situations. Then, write your insights on a clean sheet
of paper.
Activity: You
Decide!
 Processing
Questions:
1. How did you find the activity? What were your thoughts and feelings
while
answering?
2. In making a decision, what are the things that you need to consider?
3. Who are the people that mostly influence your decisions? Why?
4. Does this pandemic situation somehow affected your decision-making?
How?
 Decisive Person
Decisiveness is displayed by firmness and decision. It
means that you have the ability to decide, and from the
strength of a decision you then have the needed skills to
carry out that decision and act on it.
 Practices of a decisive
person:
Collect relevant information. Write down pros and cons.
Get as much information as possible. It Make columns and list down the
is about exploring and discovering all the doable including its positive and
available options. Read, talk to seniors negative effects.
and trusted persons, and visit credible
websites to get valid and reliable
information. The first step will give you a
good head start and will guide you
through arriving at a less risky but rather
sound decision.
 Practices of a decisive
person:
Imagine yourself sooner or
later dealing on with the
outcome of your decisions.
Think about what you’re doing and
how you’re feeling. Does it make you
happy and fulfilled? Or does it make
you regretful and feeling a little
empty? Of course, you must go with
the positive outcome.
Weigh in past decisions.
Maybe you have read or heard about the
saying that “those who don’t understand
history are doomed to repeat it.” This is
the exact reason why you should reflect
and find out the things that you should
have considered and should not have
considered. Through pondering on past
decisions, you will be able to draw out
effects that turned out well and those
that did not turn out very well.
 Practices of a decisive
person:
Be Ready and Brace
Yourself.
It’s good to be always prepped up Remember: Making good
with the choices
you’ll be faced with in your life; and choices begins with taking
get ready to bout with upcoming charge of the decision-making
challenges. process. There’s never a
Foresight is one skill that’s useful and
experiences you had in the past will short-cut to achieving finer
also gear things in life.
you up.
 Activity: Help Me
Decide!
In making a career choice, it is important to come up with a sound
decision.How do you do it? Who are the significant others who can help
you? Try to identify the particular person/s or institution/s as being asked
below. Do this on a sheet of paper.
 Family
 Peers/Friends
 Institutions
 Other resources
 Share your thoughts and
feelings…
Recall an instance in your life when you needed a
confidant. Who was that person? Write him/her a nice
and creatively done Thank You letter and let the person
know how you turned out to be a better person now.
Send it via regular mail, email or post in social media.
Let him/her sign or acknowledge the letter and compile it
together with your other activities.