Personal Values In Life

Sports has always been a huge part of my life. I would be the one team player who took the sports season a little bit too seriously. I was the number 1 doubles player on my school's JV tennis team. Unfortunately, I fractured my ankle during my junior year and wasn't able to play with my team. I was devastated, but I didn’t allow myself to become disconnected from my team. I became the team manager to allow myself to still play a role in my team, despite my injury. I would record scores to my division leaders and take pictures to post on the website I created for my team. After the season was over, my doctor told me my ankles required surgery to become fully healed. I knew that meant I couldn’t continue to play tennis, but I didn’t want to give

Personal values, beliefs, and principles are important for individuals to know about themselves. However, when asked the question, “what are your personal values, beliefs, and principles?” The first response is often a laundry list of characteristics with the assumption that those three words are synonymous. From my experience when posed this question the laundry list became long and in retrospect, I began to wonder what the differences were between each of these terms. As a teacher, employee, mother, and Christian knowing these differences and how to answer the question is an important component of determining how I make decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. Hence, began the investigation of how the terms relate, their meaning and what my answer is to this question. Since my laundry list was quite long for this essay, I will share and explain the top two elements for each category, how they relate to one another and how the knowledge influences tough decisions.

I choose this prompt because it looked as it was the best of the prompts fitting to me. I myself come from several different backgrounds, I also carry a lot of different talents. People like those are very unique and are very productive in diverse community, and they turn to be very productive and effective individuals in their community. The past autumn I applied to the University of Washington, which is one of the high ranking schools in the nation, so I applied to all of their 3 branches, Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma, hoping with my different unique talents and personality I will be accepted and be offered admission to one of the 3 branches. Several months later I am here talking to you, that optimism I had has become a reality, I’ve got accepted into University of Washington Tacoma and I am still hoping I will also get accept into the Bothell branch as well. Being born in Seattle, growing up here and at the same coming from both an African and Arab background is pretty unique, on the other hand being a Muslim and a practicing religious Muslim, was also something fascinating, living in America in this time, where Islamphobia was at its peak. In addition to that, being an individual who is deeply involved in the community, specifically youth affairs at a young age of 17 was very productive I can say. Summing all those qualities and talents, I told myself this will help me achieve a lot of things in the future, being a personally diverse individuals who is both academically and spiritually active and built, and in addition to the a productive young individual for the community was indeed something unique and attractive to schools and jobs in the future.

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Annika’s natural propensity towards academic success has always placed me in a position of comparison; though three years younger, I would strive to excel as she did. Even if I couldn’t reach her level, the pressure motivated me to do my best, and her assuring and calm demeanor would remind me that there’s always another shot. Learning from her habits and attitude gave me the guidance to succeed on my own and be proud of my accomplishments; my inductance into National Honor Society proved to me that the pressure of having someone to look up to can be a supportive force rather than a debilitating grievance. Similarly, Jaineel’s natural athletic ability in every sport he pursued from basketball to karate pushed me to perform my best in tennis. His determination to live by a schedule in order to see progress gave me the foresight to not give up when I wanted to throw in the towel, and his love for sports reminds me of why I continue to play tennis even today.  Living with 8 other perspectives to a situation is a true blessing. If there is ever a dilemma in my life, everyone will share his or her opinion but support me no matter which direction I choose. Growing up with my family has definitely been a unique experience, but I would never change it for the world. My home gives me strength, assurance, stability, laughter, and love as I wake up to 8 people banging on my bedroom door every morning ready to

Growing up in an agricultural environment, alongside a small community with a supportive family, I matured into a confident, determined individual with strong family values.

Throughout our lifetime, us as people decide to admire different objects, ideas, and people due to what pleases their thoughts and actions. The infinite examples of things we could’ve valued could’ve been toys, friends, book, etc.. But then we began to mature and begin to come out of our little shells to discover new products, views of the world, and new ways to advance in our technology and therefore influencing what we value today. And as I matured in my lifetime, I established a novel value to my parents the greatest.

Value Orientations are an important aspect to social work practice. It is critical that social workers do not let their personal values interfere with their daily work ethic. In addition, social works must keep an objective outlook on the issues they confront because values differ across cultures, race, ethnicity, etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical self-reflection on my personal values.

Values are intangible things that are important to us, and that guide us, individually, to make decisions. Each person has a different set of values, morals, and ethics, which is the reason that each person handles a situation differently. Here, I will discuss my top 5 values, and why they are important to me.

I am a focused student, dedicated to hard work. I have been pushing myself to do well academically since grade school. At one time, I wished to become involved in sports, but having been born with several medical issues, it was not recommended by my doctor. Thankfully, I have overcome many of the health issues. After beginning to walk at seventeen months, I was diagnosed with chronic flat feet at the age of two. I remember, well, going to a doctor’s appointment at the age of five, and hearing the doctor tell my mother I could never play contact sports. Growing up watching my older brother play sports in school was difficult, because I also wished to play. I had to learn to put my desire to play basketball

After nearly 17 years I came to realize how lucky many individuals are when it comes to the opportunities they have been given. I was one of these people, who not until recently, finally understood to not take things for granted, and to truly appreciate everything about myself, my family, and my life. Through growing up in a very advantageous society, I learned to become someone who genuinely cares for others while developing a strong sense of compassion.

Throughout my high school career I have been very successful in activities in and out of school. One of the activities that I take most pride in is basketball. I have played basketball for as long as I remember and it has always been a part of my life. By playing sports along with participating in other athletic activities it makes me a well-rounded person. In particular playing basketball has made my learning dedication and leadership in the time I have participated in it. In addition to playing basketball I manage the varsity football team. The reason I volunteer to do this is because I love all sporting activities and like to be associated with as many as I could. By being a part of the football team I have learned what it takes to run a

With life comes different inspirations, and yet, I have always been inspired by my father. To me he's more than a dad; he's my guideline. Continuously always influencing me with the humble achievements he continues to make. Of these, the one I am in awe of and most proud of the virtually unheard of achieving the rank of E7, a Gunnery Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps at the age of 26. It is here that I believe my hard work ethic was birthed. This is the derivative of my scholastic work ethic and what helped me believe that making the National Honors Society was possible, an achievement that no one in my family has made.

Values are those things that are important, meaningful and valued by an individual, a group of people, or an organization. Whether we are aware of them or not, every individual has his or her core set of values, which consist of many different kinds of values. Each individual’s value system is different from one another because individual’s values are built up through one’s life experience, environment, and family background.  Values are important to us because they reflect our personal moral standards, shape our behavior, and guide us through long life journeys.  Since we live in a highly connected society, each person’s value system does not only affect one’s own life, but also affects many other people and the

At the end of the day it is not up to anyone else but me to accomplish what I need to in life. My personal vision has also evolved because I hold myself at a lot higher level. It’s not only for me, but I must show my five children that it is possible to accomplish your goals regardless of how busy life is. I must prove to them that anything is possible with hard work, consistency, and determination.