Category: Unit 02

Life Values Assessment

Here is my list of ranking:

  1. Health
  2. Personal Development
  3. Family
  4. Wealth
  5. Enjoyment
  6. Personal Accomplishment
  7. Independence
  8. Expertness
  9. Integrity
  10. Wisdom
  11. Community
  12. Security
  13. Friendship
  14. Service
  15. Loyalty
  16. Prestige
  17. Leadership
  18. Creativity
  19. Power
  20. Location

The first top of my ranking is Health, Personal Development, Family, Wealth and Enjoyment. The glossary is listed below:

  • Health: To be physically and mentally fit.
  • Personal Development: To learn and to do challenging work that will help me grow, that will allow me to utilize my best talents and mature as a human being.
  • Family: To have time with my family
  • Wealth:To earn a great deal of money (i.e., well beyond my family’s basic
  • needs). To be financially independent.
  • Enjoyment:To enjoy my work. To have fun doing it.

If I recall what I have done today carefully, I found that it can become an evidence to prove some important value in my life. For example, I can find top three importance value in today’s activities, the health, personal development, and the family. I get up late today because I think that sleep longer can make me health. The first thing I have done after that is to drink a cup of water to be a supply for my body. After that I went to school for my Economic class which represent that I trust this class has benefit for my personal development. I made a phone call for my family once every two day is because I really love my family and it is a integral part of my life. The fourth value in my list is wealth, which is an significant value in my homeland China. Sometimes it can represent everything you  done in the world. There is an old saying in China states that:”If you have money, you can make the devil push the millstone for you.” It is why I list wealth to be the top 5 value in my life. The final value I list on above is enjoyment. Enjoyment can give people courage to do what they want to do. Imaging that if you are doing a job that you dislike, you might not  have a positive attitude to face it every day.

Children always inherit some sort of qualities form their parent and I was no exception.  According to Rachel Lane, “for a belief to really serve you, it has to be something that rings true for you on every level, conscious and unconscious, down to the bone.” The parents are the people who give us the “bone”. When I was 5 years old, my parents decided to take me to go to the church. The reason why I become a christian in such a young age is because I “inherit” my parents’ religion to be my own religion. In addition, my parents also teach me some moral standard that they consider every individual should know and act in their life. However, they will also have their own “personal characteristic”. For example, my mom works in hospital and there are so many deaths occur in her work place. It is why she always told me that I should enjoy every minute in my life because it might become your last minute in the world. This value is  appeared due to her own experience and job place. I also affect by her value to that I always take things as they are.

If I think over of all my goals, they always changed as I grow older. Now my goal is just a standard goal for a normal student, which is to graduated and find a job to be a independent individual in the society. Then I might need to build a family and feed my kids. Everything sounds usual because it is a universal and standard value in our life. I don’t know when and why I have such a goal in my mind, but I consider it is influence by society and social media. Everyday we ‘re educated by teachers, parents and social medias. We all start to form our own values. In fact, those values are all come from our external environment. Then our environment will influence our emotion to build our own values.

In sum, I am now an student of university of Oregon and I am study in accounting major and economic minor. The reason why I choose to study accounting is not because I like to manage numbers and accounts, it is because the social information tell me that it is easy for an accountant to find a job. The value of finding a good job is already greater than the value of weather I enjoy the job. However, sometimes we have to adjust the society because no one wants to be eliminated by  competition.

Reference

Rachel Lane, How to change your belief Patterns to unleash your human potential, Rachel Lane, retrieved from: http://coachrachel.com/how-to-change-your-belief-patterns-to-unleash-your-human-potential/

Discussion post 1:the Relationship between People’s Value and Emotion

According to the Lewis, H(1990), he points out that what is value an how a person’s value can be shaped. He also tells reader that there might be a framework for people to shape their value an lead them to find their own ways to judge themselves. According to the Lewis, H(1990), he states that a particular mental mode, such as the mode of emotion, could be matters for the people who are shaping their value.(page 9)

According to Common Cause(2013), “Values represent our guiding principles: our broadest motivations, influencing the attitudes we hold and how we act.” In fact, our emotion is show up before our value can influence our behavior. As far as I am concerned, I am extremely interested in a diagram the author mentioned in the article about a process of how people formed their value. In the beginning, people are affected by mental mode, after that, they will find out a way of forming value judgments. Then people’s emotion will choose a dominant personal judgment and a period of time later, the people will have their specific personal values and value system. Finally, they will demonstrate as behaviors in their daily life to show the world their “Value”.

As w all know, we can consider our “wages” to be an important part for a reason to do a job. Meanwhile, we can also consider our personal value have a profit for our rest of life. It is why I am talking about emotion in the paragraph above. The personal’s emotion lead us to find out a right way to be more profit in our life. It is important in shaping our won value. Because of value is always influence by our emotion, it is easy to change some parts of value. For instance, I used to think that a famous person should be a model for all the people who support them. However, sometimes they also make mistakes. When they make mistakes, I changed my value system to accept their mistakes and find a numbers of excuse for them. It is why I think that value can be changed immediately by some accidents or just a change of emotion.

Reference

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

Common cause, November 2013 http://valuesandframes.org/handbook/1-why-values-matter/