Personal Balance Sheet

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This Personal Balance Sheet technique by Janis and Mann is a form of Listing Pros and Cons. This was originally used by counsellors etc. for people to make a reasoned, public and recorded statement of why and individual was going to make a specific change (such as stop drinking or drugs) on the basis that it was then munch more difficult for a individual to renege later.

An example table

	Expected Gains				Expected Losses
	For you		For others		For you		For others
	Tangible	Subjective	Tangible	Subjective	Tangible	Subjective	Tangible	Subjective
Option 1
Option 2

References

• Decision Making, I.L. Janis and L. Mann
• Techniques of Structured Problem Solving by VanGundy