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1. YOU
Unit 2 is all about…

2. What Are We Covering?
• Recognizing the good
• Personality traits
• Learning styles
• Career choices
• Character development
• Defining yourself
• Discovering your potential

3. Learning Goals:
• Be able to describe and discuss who you are
• Be able to describe and discuss who you want to be in the future
• Make comparisons between who you are today and who you want to be in the future,
describing some of the ways you will become the person you want to be
• Describe what it means to be happy
• Describe the differences between an product-based approach and a process-based approach
• Explain how these two approaches happen in your life, with specific connections to the
concept of happiness

4. You: Today
Take 10 minutes…
• Good, bad or ugly…
• Create a drawing of yourself as you
are today
• List qualities or attributes about
yourself as you are today

5. You: Today
Take 10 minutes…
• Good, bad or ugly…
• Create a drawing of yourself as you
are today
• List qualities or attributes about
yourself as you are today
Now look at your drawing:
What would you never want to change about yourself?
What would you like to change about yourself?
What is changing right now?

6. You: In the Future
Take 10 minutes…
• Choose a time (6 mo., 1 yr., 4 yrs.)
• Thinking of your ideals
• Create a drawing of yourself as you want
to be in the future
• List qualities or attributes about yourself
as you want them to be in the future

7. You: In the Future
Take 10 minutes…
• Choose a time (6 mo., 1 yr., 4 yrs.)
• Thinking of your ideals
• Create a drawing of yourself as you want
to be in the future
• List qualities or attributes about yourself
as you want them to be in the future
Now look at your drawing:
Is this who you truly want to be?
Write a list of things you need to change in order to become the
person you want to be.
For each item on your list, write at least one “how” you will reach
your goal.

8. Think About This…
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJlRXYlMwrs
What is the message(s) of this talk?
How does this message relate to you?
What do you think it means to be happy?
How do you think you achieve happiness?
How does this talk change what you think about what it means to achieve happiness and be happy?

9. Learning Goals:
• Be able to describe and discuss who you are
• Be able to describe and discuss who you want to be in the future
• Make comparisons between who you are today and who you want to be in the future,
describing some of the ways you will become the person you want to be
• Describe what it means to be happy
• Describe the differences between an product-based approach and a process-based approach
• Explain how these two approaches happen in your life, with specific connections to the
concept of happiness