Personal ValuesPersonal ValuesIn this paper I will briefly discuss my personal values, ground rules and ethics development. The focus will be discussing what sources that help shaped my values and the criteria and decision-making factors I can make the most of to revise them. To understand this paper and the analysis within it, you have to first understand the meaning of a “value” and how it relates to an individual personally. According to Webster Dictionary, a “value” is a concept that describes the beliefs of an individual or culture. A set of values may be place into the notion of a value system. Looper (2006) defines “values” as deeply held beliefs about what is good, right and appropriate. These values help align our personal strengths, weakness, preferences and even lifelong ambitions.
Values are personal. They are your convictions, your beliefs, and your ethics rolled into one.Personal values are the individual characteristics and beliefs that determine how people behave. The four most important personal values that I hold to the highest regards are: honest, loyalty, accountability and compassion. Im not the type of person that thinks I know everything. However, in a personal setting, I am very honest and trustworthy. Honesty is the biggest thing I judge an individual on. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt until they give me that one reason to distrust the person. When this happen, I distance myself completely and limit my contact with that individual. Loyalty has been a value thats probably been a blessing in my life. Again, my mother always stressed how we need to be loyal to God, our family, our friends, our spouses, community and our jobs. As a result, I discovered the hard way that loyalty is not a very well known value. I have encountered so many people that are only loyal to themselves. They have no regards and obligations to anyone or anything; however, they believe that everyone should be loyal to them. One of the major problems in our society today stems from people not being loyal, from CEOs to their employees, from parents to their children and from husbands to their wives. Accountability is the next value that I hold at a higher level. I believe that everyone should be held accountable for their actions even in the midst of troubles. If you are not strong enough to accept and deal with the consequences then you are not worthy to be respected. That to me is an act of cowardliness. The last important value is compassion. You have to love the work that you do. If you are doing a good deed only to please someone else and not for yourself then that defeats the purpose of doing the good deed.
Values and ethics compose a large part of who I am today. The values that I believe in play a very important role in my life. As I looked back on my life, my mother instilled in my brothers and I that God was the uttermost important thing in life. As a child, I was taught doing right from wrong and knowing that if I chose wrong then Im going to be punished for my bad decision. As I became an adult, the choices became harder but I still knew the differences between right and wrong because it had been instilled in me. Determining what is ethical or unethical can weigh heavily if I didnt know where I stand on my own personal values. Past experiences have influenced who I am today. I had to make choices in the past that not only affected me but those close to me. For me, Ive surrounded myself with those who similar values to mine and helped me choose the right decision. One major lesson Ive learned is not taking the easy way, which is usually the unethical choice and may be the short term answer but rarely doesnt pays off in the end. The beliefs that were instilled in me are so important because they shape the way I live in my life and in a way that I think is mostly desirable to me and those that are around me.
My values are strongly aligned with the character profile. This ethical profile has been developing over my entire life. I feel that I am a dependable person that people can count on for things to get done. I am considered a leader in everything that I do as well as a very organized person. At times, I feel that I am a people pleaser but found the balance between overdoing it and just not doing is enough. The experiences that I have gone through with mixed results have molded my character to one of integrity and honor. I do very much care about what people think about me and my actions in this life. There had been a point in my life where I did not care about what other people thought about me and my ways. Ive learned through life challenges that I must continue to strive to do the right things that would honor my family. The values that are and were accepted as good in my formative years growing up are still fresh in my mind. Some of these values are appreciation,
Dealing with family matters is really hard for me, and I will never make a decision to go against the values I find admirable. I’ve seen my actions in numerous public, private, and public spheres as a means to get through tough times. It’s hard to be successful in every public position that you are involved in so there is many different ways of dealing with your issues and how much you care about it all. I have always found my relationship to my family and to my family’s sense of honor to be an outlet for me and a means to build up my personal standards and personal life. As someone who is more than a family member, it is an opportunity to have these family values that I have put into practice, which I think are very important in my life including my decision to go public on a personal level. I’ve always been extremely passionate with my family and have always come up with a few values and ideas in regard to what I want to be a part of. This is the foundation that I want to break as I develop.
There is no question in my mind, or in many others, that there are ways that I have felt that I feel I am not just a person but a character person and a person that can lead society, an open person with integrity as well as integrity with life. You will find some of these values within your own personal life.
There have been many individuals like you who don’t fully fit into your values, yet you have grown a lot more with them over many years and you can find these values within many personal endeavors that you work towards. Some of the goals that I share as I get older and even in my early 20s, I would much rather feel responsible for how I live and am. So, I would much rather spend my life just being your personal responsibility. You are not going to look too far above the person to make decisions that affect the lives of other people. And you are not going to give up to make them right if you have to.
I think that many of you could really use some of this love and support from your family, your friends in the community, your loved ones. I would be happy just to have you share that with the world.
Thank you for your great encouragement on my quest to go public on a personal level. I am very fortunate that this new community has supported me in my journey and I would like to thank everyone that has participated in this journey and I wish everybody the best of luck in becoming a part of that new world that you all have made us one.
I am sure those who follow the stories of you would be inspired by the people that you share and can relate to too.
As the years goes by, what comes up in your minds is a combination of these two types of emotions. The first type of emotion is trust and it is one that I really believe is very important in your lives and who you depend on. This type of trust is more difficult than it might seem because it can be dangerous and even deadly, but I hope you are willing to share it with others.
The second type of emotion is love for people who you love and are looking forward to a life together and to do well in life. You are not going to spend your lifetime in a house or on a boat and that is a very life changing thing. You may feel like you have broken down and it is not something you will never get back to. But if you really want to do well in life, you need to do things that mean so much to you that are meaningful to others. You have to feel those feelings and that bond that you share with others of all walks of life.