Unit 2: Life Values Assessment
October 13, 2013
List of my values from in order of importance:
1.Friendship
2.Enjoyment
3.Family
4.Health
5.Security
6.Loyalty
7.Personal Accomplishment
8.Prestige
9.Creativity
10.Power
11.Leadership
12.Location
13.Wisdom
14.Personal Development
15.Expertness
16.Service
17.Wealth
18.Integrity
19.Independence
20.Community
I have to be totally honest, today is Sunday which means I wasn’t the most productive me today. I slept in, ate a bowl of cereal and then spent the next 4 hours watching football with my friends and roommates. I spent the remainder of my day playing/walking my puppy. Since I really didn’t do that many activities today I didn’t have to use my top five values to help make decisions. However, I did manage to use 3 of the five from what I can recall
Like I mentioned earlier, I watched football all day with my friends today, so the value “friendship” was most definitely involved in my decision making today. I could have just as easy watched the games on my TV in my room but I like to surround myself with good company. To me, friendships are among the most important things in life. Friends help keep me sane by sharing both good and bad experiences with me, without friends I would either go crazy or become depressed. Since I spent the remainder of my day playing with my puppy, Jax, I can also include “family” as one of the values I used today. I know it’s technically not family and he’s just a dog, but he’s also the closest thing I have to a child and honestly feels like my little boy. I think this is because I’m responsible for his well being, how I raise and train him will determine how he will act and behave when he’s full grown, just like raising a child. And I care for him, which is why I played with him for the rest of the day, it wouldn’t be fair to him if I kept him cooped up in the house all day. I guess I can also throw the value “health” as one of the values I used today. Health is what shaped my decision making on where to eat today. During halftime of the Niner game I originally wanted to go get a pizza from Safeway but then I decided that it was better for me to go and eat at this organic restaurant called Laughing Planet, which is much healthier than pizza