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Vocabulary
- Consequence - a result of your actions and decisions
- Collaborate - to work together with one or more people
Making GREAT Decisions
Decisions are made every day, although some decisions are made in a snap. Snap decisions are decisions you make without thinking. These impulsive decisions can have negative consequences e.g. STDs, pregnancy, alcohol and tobacco addiction, overdoses, and car accidents. GREAT decisions provide a model for making decisions, learning to use the GREAT decision model can help you make safer and better decisions.
Give
Give thought to the problem, stop and think. This prevents impulsive decisions.
Review
Review what are your choices, if you do not see the full extent of choices you have then you may not be making the best decisions you can.
Evaluate
Weigh the pros and cons of each choice, trying to find the best one.
Assess
Assess if the chosen decision best reflects your values, respecting your values is respecting yourself
Think
Think it over afterward, reflect on your decision whether the outcome was good or bad. Reflecting over the decision will allow you to make better decisions in the future.
When you have to make difficult decisions remember that it’s ok to seek advice from your peers and family.
Everyone Makes Mistakes
Making a bad decision isn’t the end, you can use post-bad-decision skills to help mitigate the bad outcome.
Stop
Stop and admit that you’ve made a bad decision. Take responsibility.
Think
Think/discuss ways to correct the situation. You can talk to people around you (friends, family, counselors) to help you think up ways.
Go
Apply what you’ve came up with and go do your best to correct the situation.
Once you’ve made a poor decision, you can learn from the mistakes. Learn from what you did wrong in your decision making process and your decision fallout mitigation.