1. On a scratch piece of paper…
Rank the following in order from most important to least important in your life:
Money
Family
Respect
Religion
Education
Friends

2. Setting Priorities and Achieving Goals
C2, S1

3. What’s Most Important?
The choices you make as a consumer depend in part on your priorities – your judgments about the relative importance of alternatives How do we determine what is most important?....

4. What Determines Your Priorities?

5. Needs and Wants Needs: Things you must have in order to live.
Wants: Things you desire but which aren’t necessary to live.

6. Values Values are strongly held beliefs about what is worthwhile.
Most people share a
common set of values.
They include honesty,
respect, kindness,
courtesy, and fairness.

7. Standards Standards: Levels of success people establish for themselves
How do you
measure it?

8. Goals Goals: Targets for what you want to accomplish. Goals translate
priorities into action.
Goals can be short-term or long-term.

9. Achieving Goals
Step 1: Set proper goals (not too easy, not to difficult)
Step 2: Prepare to deal with difficulties
Step 3: Enlist the support of others
Step 4: Acknowledge your successes and failures

10. Quick Review What 4 things determine your priorities?
Things you must have to live are known as ______________
Things you desire, but aren’t necessary are known as ______________
Your goals are __________________ put into action
Needs, wants, values, standards
needs
wants
priorities