Personal Narrative: Articulating My Personal Core Values

I believe you can achieve anything you want in life with hard work, dedication, and passion. There are many experiences I have gone through that have helped shaped who I am today. I may not have control over certain situations, but I have a choice on how it affects me.

Everyone on earth is defined by their core beliefs. It’s what makes us all individuals, what separates us from the others. It wasn’t until I was talking with my friend Sean in 8th grade that I started to realize that one of my core beliefs, something I was taught growing up, may not be my own belief.

“Integrity first. Service before self. Excellence in all we do."1 These values were driven into us. Integrity was more than doing the right thing when no one was looking; it was doing the right thing even when under the pressure of your peers. “Service before self” meant giving your all, and learning your breaking points. You could have higher values, but service always comes before yourself, this makes or breaks you. “Excellence in all we do”, was my first life example of “perfect practice makes perfect”. Strive to hit the bullseye every

I have never been asked a more challenging question than “what is your core belief?”. I know what motivates me and I know what I am passionate about, but what I truly believe was tough. I spent about two weeks trying to figure it out and I what I truly believe in is happiness. Maybe that is not an answer that one would expected, but at the root of every belief that I have happiness exist. Happiness is what motivates me the most.

My Signature Themes are achiever, arranger, responsibility, input, and significance. Each of these are very significant in defining my strengths and showing me how to best use my strengths in my future. My first strength was achiever and this is representing me as a whole, and is what I use in everyday life. I am a driven person who wants to accomplish many things and I visualize my life as a mountain that I will overcome every day and at the end of every day I will have a beautiful view of what I have accomplished. I use every day in events such as: relentless volunteering, working long hours and everything is done with an impeccable sense of satisfaction after completion. My second and third strengths are arranger and responsibility. These

My strengths are experience I have from my practicum and volunteer, hard-working personality, and observation skills. I independently interacted with patients and families and provided therapeutic play and activities in pediatrics and PICU. I also observed child life specialists in NICU, surgery, emergency department, and trauma. Observation enables me to interact and communicate effectively with patients and their families. I respect the individual differences such as culture, religion, and their unique needs.

What defines me is my drive to help people, and the adrenaline and mental high I get from doing it. I can accredit this to my Aunt Rhonda who was a Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) During my early childhood. I remember her letting me sit on her lap after she got back from a long weekend of volunteering, and me marveling over her stories of the shift. By the time I got to elementary school, I had started carrying extra band-aids in my backpack so as to save the life of a possible wounded classmate. When I got into middle school, I was familiar with the first responder standards of care and had my own basic medical bag. I spent my weekends reading “Grey's Anatomy” and watching endotracheal intubation demonstrations on youtube instead of doing my homework. But everything I

Do you ever recall wanting to be an astronaut, a celebrity, or even a clown? These are some examples of what young children are thinking of accomplishing as career options. Being nonsensical is not the way to do, being realistic by far is the smartest thing to do.

What if you can only pick a movie, book, or tv show that would not be destroyed.? we would love to save all differents kind of movies, books, and tv shows, but you can only pick one! I would pick the tv show spongebob, the divergent book and movie, and diners drive-ins, and dives .

Have you ever thought about your personal strengths? A few of my personal strengths are that I am a good lacrosse player, am a good leader, and a good thinker. I have played lacrosse since second grade. For my leadership, I was selected to be the Zion house leader. I always find loopholes and additionally, different connections to things, this is my strength in thinking. These are a few of my personal strengths.

I take great pride in being a good hearted person who means well and strives to be a role model for my children and peers. I am blessed to have had great leaders and role models throughout my life to emulate their

If I am being honest, I’d hate for many of the features mentioned to be a part of my neighborhood. The one that really irks me the most is waste incinerator, not only would it cause air problems but also because it is a cancer forming chemical. What kind of environment would it be if going outside was a constant risk to not only myself but anyone that had to pass is on a daily basis. The fact the park is not really a park, saddens me because growing up the closest park was a 10 to 15 minute drive, so for this park to be so close but not really be at the disposal of the children to use freely without there being drug use or such nearby sucks. Although, in the book they mention how the vacant lot is beneficial, I’d still dislike to have to see that every day in my neighborhood, because who wants to see a pile of trash on their walk or drive somewhere. Also, having younger nieces who wonder what everything is I’d constantly worry that they’d go and try to touch something that they shouldn’t. The garbage dump being 3 blocks away, is something I’d also dislike because I’m sure when it becomes to full the smell must be unpleasant. My roommates and I are guilty of this already with our trash that I cannot imagine dealing with a whole neighborhoods trash.

When looking for strengths I thought it was going to be challenging. I’m not one to point out things I do well at in fact I don’t take compliments very well either but something I noticed throughout all my papers was the comment, “Great Intro!” From both my teacher and my peers I noticed this. For example in my introduction of the Personal Essay, “Please don’t get caught, please don’t get caught, please don’t get caught. As I turned around to exit the bathroom, he was there. My dad.” I think the people that read this piece enjoyed the suspense, and image that was built along with learning the story about a pivotal point in my life. Writing an introduction is fairly easy to me once I get my ideas going but having to conclude is a whole other

My core values were developed in my younger years and came from my parents and close family. One of my core values is integrity. This value came from my father and served as a basis for other traits that developed in me, one being that of honesty. This things were ingrained in me from my earliest memories. To this day, I don’t think I ever heard my father tell a lie or not tell the whole truth. To me, integrity goes farther than just being honest, it is having and living by the principles that I believe.

That is, until I was nine and fainted at the sight of my own blood when I cut my finger.