When asked to think about my life values that are truly mine and no one else’s, I found it surprisingly difficult because my first life value is my family and because of that they influence my other values. So instead of thinking of just my values and no one else’s I thought of my values based on how the people around me have shaped me because I know who I am today is because of them.  Next we are asked to show how we represented those values today, I am going to talk about this weekend in general instead because today was a travel day which involved a lot of sleeping. This weekend I was in Seattle for hockey playing UW and my dad and brother were there. Because My most important value is my family, i gladly gave up hanging out with my team for a couple of hours yesterday so i could show my dad and brother how much they mean to me and to really thank them for supporting me. The main reason I was in Seattle in the first place was because of hockey and how much I enjoy playing hockey. The last 3 of my top five; loyalty, friendship, and leadership can all be used to describe how i feel about my team. They first off are my friends and the loyalty i feel towards them cannot be matched. Being a leader to me is the best way to show that you care about a cause or a group, to really put the needs of the many ahead of the needs of yourself and i accomplished that by coordinating my team off the ice as well as being a effort leader on the Ice. After the top 5, the bottom 15 are in some order but not 100% in the correct order mostly because they all mean either just as much as another one or its hard to say which is ahead of which. The main one that was represented out of the bottom 15 is security, security in my future and in my family. I put security in my future by thinking about school as well as internship possibilities for this summer, and in my family by ensuring that i talk to them and keep them informed in my life and make sure i am informed in their life.

As to which of these values I inherited from my family, I would say all of them especially my top 5. I think that there are some values that i may value more than my family like personal accomplishment or wealth, but all in all my family has been the direct influence of my values.

The goals that I have yet to accomplish are mainly economical or my future job and family. And what is holding me back are a couple of things, my education level and my decision making. I need to graduate before i can truly get a job and eventually go back to school before i can achieve my ultimate goal. What that ultimate goal is though is unclear. That is my second problem, I do not know what I want to do. I feel like i should work for a while in the financial field and by doing that will figure out exactly what I want to do.