Goals for this week:

• Become familiar the structure and requirements for this course
• Create an online blog to use for posting research an other assignments
• Become familiar with the other students in the class

ARTIFACT: LIFE VALUES ASSESSMENT

LIFE VALUES ASSESSMENT:

List of values ranked

family

enjoyment

integrity

personal accomplishment

personal development

expertness

wisdom

security

loyalty

friendship

wealth

community

service

health

prestige

power

leadership

independence

location

creativity

Today I have done a lot of things that I would consider to be part of the life value words that were given.  I called my family to see how they were doing this week, and that was part of the value list.  I also just in general had a good day, and nothing really went wrong so the value enjoyment was part of my day.  I went to all my classes today so I would say I showed personal development by going to class and learning.  Lastly I did some physical activity by running when I was playing a sport so I would qualify the value of health as that.  My top five values are; family, enjoyment, integrity, personal accomplishment, and personal development.  I think today with the activities I did such as calling my family, going to class, and having a good day and have nothing go wrong to have these five values be present.  If these values weren’t present then I wouldn’t be the person I am today.

I would say the belief patters I inherited from my parents were all of my top five values, because I feel like my parents raised me on these values.  I know that their values rubbed off on me and I would say the top five I chose are all things that my parents stressed to me when I was a little kid. I would say that none of the belief patterns I inherited aren’t valid because they are all things that my parents would always stress to me when I was little and I still follow them today.  Some goals I have that I have yet to accomplish would be graduating college, finding a job after college, and being a father when I have the opportunity.  In order for me to fulfill these goals I will have to strive to live by my top five values, because if I do I think all of these goals will fall into place and I will be successful at it.  I think that the things that are standing in my way of achieving these goals are if I don’t have personal growth.  If I am how I am today without growing each day I don’t think I will be successful at the goals I have listed earlier.  I think it is essential to have personal growth each day, otherwise I will be the same I was from yesterday which doesn’t help ever.  I think this life assessment assignment was very useful because it made me stop and think about some personal values I have and rank them.

Reflection:

When doing this assignment I truly realized how much my family actually means to me.  Being in college I sometimes forget how much my parents meant to me because I wasn’t with them seven days a week before I came to college.  I think that in life these life values are crucial  into enjoying the parts of life that truly matter.  It never really occurred to me that these words actually meant so much to life values.  You see these words a lot, but yet you don’t really realize how much they impact your life each and every day.

I chose this as my artifact because it was in a way a reflective assignment for me.  It made me stop and realize how important the top five values are to me and how much I actually try and live by them.  I would say that the top 5 words describe who I am, and what I am all about.  Coming from the background that I come from it is clear that my family and I would share the same life values, and they have influenced me in that sense.  I thought that this has been one of the most important assignments we have done so far because it was something that was more about me.  I actually really did enjoy this assignment and everything that we had to do for it.

I decided to choose these pictures because they are the top two life values that I believe in.  The first one has to do with family and the second one has to do with enjoyment.  These are my top value assessments that I always try to live by.

Future Intentions:

My future intentions for this topic is to continue to develop my list of life values.  I think that as time goes on and I develop more as a person the list will be switched around a lot.  I know though that my family will always be number one, and I will do everything to make sure that never changes.  As my values change I will make each decision in the future based on my life values, and I think that will help steer me in a direction that I will be happy with.