2 – Values

Goals

• Become familiar with the basic relationship of human values to psychological and philoshopical endeavors.
• Understand that values are formed from external and internal drives of an individual.
• Explore one’s own value system.

Life Values Response- January 19, 2014

Family, Personal Development, Integrity, Friendship

Health, Loyalty, Wisdom, Personal Accomplishment, Leadership, Wealth, Independence, Enjoyment, Prestige, Power, Security, Expertness, Community, Service, Creativity, Location

• Life Values Response

I must say that the majority of my Sunday’s are pretty much the same. Today has hardly been any different than any of the other Sundays. I was able to workout, do homework, do some things around the house, and relax. My weeks are very busy so this day is reserved for “low-key productivity”.

For my first value of family, I was able to hangout with my brother and watch the 49er game. This is important to me because I value the time I get with my family. When all else fails, your family is usually the last ones there for you. I value the relationships with my family and enjoy spending time with the members in my family. My personal development was furthered along today as I read a devotional  that challenged me as an individual . I fight everyday (or try to) to be a better person than I was the day before.         My integrity was challenged today in my efforts to better my health.  I was pretty spent from the night before and I knew I still had to get my work in regardless of how I felt.

Today, I was able to also enjoy time with friends. I was able to work with them and we all challenged one another to better ourselves. The values of health, friendship, and integrity were all connected in my day. I was able to utilize one value to kind of help maintain another value. I think that people are unable to pusure certain goals from factors outside of the individual themselves.  The individual has a choice to decide what goals to pursue. For example, age can factor into an individual not acting upon a goal. I set goals out for myself for my sport and do my best to attain them. Goals should be something that challenge you, but are within reason. Some people set themselves up to failure with goals that are not logical.

Reflection:

The Life Values Assessment was a valuable tool for personal reflection. This assignment helped me to explore my own value system.  I know that I have certain values, but when I was presented with the assessment part of the assignment, it really helped me to identify which of these values had the most meaning to me. I was able to identify that my top five values are family, personal development, integrity, and friendship. The internal drives that formed my values comes from my individualism. The value of personal development is important to me and is driven internally. Externally, the value of family comes from my parents valuing family relationships and instilling the importance of that to me at an early age. This photo represents a bunch of different possible values. It is representative of our assignment because it shows that there are many different types of values and looking at this image will evoke some emotions of what values may stand out to you.

“A Question of Values”, talks about the most basic ways we come to “know” something. The various methods were sense experience, deductive logic, emotion, intuition, authority, and “science” (Values 10-11). These methods relate to the creation of my own set of values. The basic method of the coming to form a value such as religion comes from authority. This is evident in my life as I believe that Jesus Christ is our savior. “Christianity has often been associated with authority, although it makes a direct emotional, intuitive, and logical appeal as well” (Values 11).  I can relate to this example because it is evident in my life.  I practice the Christian faith and not only is my faith a value, but other things relating to faith are also entailed in my values.

Future:

There are things that are important to me now that were not as important to me when I was younger. I believe that as I grow older, my value system may change a bit. There are certain values that I hold that will remain a “top” value. For example, my family and personal development are examples of values I do not foresee changing. I will always love and support members of my family and I think my family will only grow with additions such as a wife and kids and in-laws. I will also value my personal development because I always want to be making positive progress in my development as a person. No matter how old you are, you can always grow and strive to be better.

Bibliography:

Lewis, H. (1990). A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives. Axios Press.

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