The first thing I did after I woke up this morning was to check email from my mother because she had something for me to buy in United States and brought them back home in China.  After checking these emails and messages, I changed my clothe and came to school to study because I have 2 midterms text week and many homework assignment needs to be finished by Sunday, and I promised my friend that I would come to school to study together with her so I came 5 min earlier in case there was room available in library. Since I am only a college students, my life currently is all about family, friends and health, and these are the only things I care about. My personality is extremely close to my mother, who is really family-focused, and really loyal to her friends. Because of our family, she gave up her job and chose to become a housewife so that she did not have many opportunity to build her personal interests. I do love my family and I think I am pretty loyal to my friends; but I prefer to focus on personal development because I believe that best way to discover your potential is to challenge yourself to try different kinds of things. I am not a personal who will be satisfied by staying in a constant status or doing the same work for a life-long time, thus I put personal development at the second position just after the family as my value.

Reflection:

Firstly, I found it is very interesting to do the value assessment test and actually I spent really long time on it because I have to think what is most important to me. I believe that I made these choices because these are the values that I truly want to have and be known for. However, achieving this value is not a easy job for me to do; other than family, health, and friendship (because these things are really daily-life base and personal), personal development is relatively challenging for me to do.  Firstly, I am easy to compromise. Once I fail, probably I will just stop and give up. Secondly, I am easy to be half-hearted. At the beginning, I might be really ambitious to do something but after 3 days, I might start losing these motivation. In order to achieve my goal, I do need to think about how to overcome these weakness which are rooted in my blood.

Learning goal in the future

Everything might be changed, and I believe the value should not be counted as an exception. I believe that even in the next couple of years that mine will change once I leave college and start working. But no matter how everything else are changing, family will always be the top of my value.

Bibliography:

Lewis, H. A question of values: Six ways we make the personal choices that shape our lives. Retrieved from http://aaablogs.uoregon.edu/aad250-shuette/files/2010/09/20120717_A-Question-of-Values-CH1-2.pdf