My ordered list of life values:
- Family
- Friendship
- Loyalty
- Enjoyment
- Health
- Personal Development
- Personal Accomplishment
- Integrity
- Security
- Wealth
- Wisdom
- Leadership
- Creativity
- Service
- Community
- Prestige
- Location
- Power
- Independence
- Expertness
Two of my top five values are friendship and family. To me these two these are very similar because I consider my family my friends and my closest friends my family. This weekend I spent some time in Las Vegas with friends. This activity shows the importance of two of my top values, friendship and enjoyment. I believe it is important to be happy and to enjoy life. Almost every day of the week I spend my whole day either in class or at work and a good amount of my free time working on school work, so I find it very important to take some time every now and then to do something extra enjoyable with friends and or family. After returning home today I was feeling very tired and sick. Another one of my top five values is health. Because I was feeling ill today I took some time to take a very long nap, make some healthy food, and take some vitamins to help my immune system. These activities all represent my top five values very well. After reflecting on today I found it very interesting how no matter what I am doing, I am almost always pursuing my values even without thinking about it.
I think that one of the most important beliefs that I inherited from my family was the importance of being happy. I think this connects back to one of my top five values, enjoyment. In my family I was always taught to be happy with what you have, even if you don’t have much. I believe that this belief is still valid today and is something that I very much still believe in. I was never raised in a family that had a certain religion everyone believed in, my family was very open to letting us grow up to believe in what we want. I feel very happy that I was born into a family that was very open and allowed me and my siblings to grow up believing what we wanted.