Family

Friendship

Enjoyment

Health

Independence

Wealth

Integrity

loyalty

Prestige

Personal Accomplishment

Location

Creativity

Power

Personal Development

Leadership

Security

Wisdom

Community

Expertness

Service

My top five values that I have chosen are family, friendship, enjoyment, health, and independence. Starting my day off today, i displayed my independence value. I woke up and got out of bed around 2pm. Being able to act in terms of my own time schedule and priorites is very important to me. I then went and played basketball with my friends for a couple hours at the rec center on campus. This hits my values of friendship, health, and enjoyment. I always try to talk to some of my friends everyday. I also really enjoy playing basketball and play whenever my friends can play. To hit my finally value today, I called my parents and talked to them for a little bit. My family is only a short drive to Portland away, but I still try and talk to them almost every single day. Family is everything to me and that is why it is at the top of my value list. They have done so much for me and are always there for me.

To answer the first questions of belief pattern, I believe I inherited my belief of family over everything. My whole family including grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles is really close. Most of us live within a couple miles from each other. We would always do weekly Sunday dinners where all of us would get together and eat. So this is why I hold my family before everything else. To answer the second question, I do not acknowledge any belief pattern I have to be no longer valid. The goal I have for the future is to finish college this spring term and start my modeling career in Asia. What stands in the way of my goal time, self motivation to eat better and work out more, and my school schedule because I don’t have time to do shoots.

Values are a person’s principles or standards of behavior. Their judgment of what is important in life. This article talks about the topic of how if values are freely chosen and are human beings driven by inherited instincts. I do agree with the fact that values can be freely chosen. But, there is a lot of pressure by peers, family members, and other people around you to adhere to a certain set of values. An example would be people who are heavily involved in a religious community. Religion teaches values that you are suppose to live your life by. If one of those values is broken, you have to potential to be ostracized or looked at in a different way by the people you associate with. This creates religion to have a lot of influence on what people do and how they act. I don’t think people are driven by inherited instincts. But I do think that people have the self preservation and sex drive programmed into them by genes. It all depends how people are brought up and how they go about life. For me, I try and be selfless as possible and put others before myself and try and be about the team and not the individual. But there are times when I want it to be about me or put myself before others and I have to combat that feeling. The sex drive is programmed as people were meant to have pleasure and reproduce. It’s a drive that is always there. It’s about how you control the programs that you inherited in your genes with the values that you choose to live your life by.

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