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Decision Balance Sheet
Here is an example of a decision balance
sheet completed by a person thinking about joining the
Peace Corps:
| Option: Join
the Peace Corps |
| Self: |
Challenging work |
Low pay |
Live in another country and culture exciting! |
Away from friends and family. |
Opportunity to teach and travel. |
May have trouble adjusting; may be lonely. |
Chance to test myself and grow as a person. |
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| Significant Others: |
My students will learn some of my skills and knowledge
so they can better themselves and their country. |
Family and friends will miss me. |
| Self: |
Helping others |
Will not be able to pay
off college loans as soon as I said would, and I
may feel disappointment in myself because of this. |
I will help make this a better world. |
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I can share with others, in a small way, the advantages
I have
had by my birth in the U.S. |
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| Significant Others: |
Parents will be proud of me. |
College advisor wants me to go graduate school at his
alma mater. |
My minister will be pleased. |
Brother thinks I'm stupid; I'm just a phony do-gooder,
that I should think about my future. |
He also completed decision balance sheets
for the two other choices he was considering: go to graduate
school and work as a teacher in local school.
For your own use, print
a blank decision balance sheet.
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