What Are Personal Values?

Personal values play a big part in our lives. The development of our personal values is an ongoing process, and is subject to change based on what we feel is most important to us. Life is full of twists and turns and may cause us to readjust our priorities. However, as a human service professional it is important to understand what our values are and how we can benefit those that we serve.

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.

Values are known as one of the very important component of a trait of every individual. People become more human with their values. It defines their personhood and reflects the personality of an individual. It refers to what the person or individual holds important in his/ her life that he/she cannot live without. It influences decisions and how people perceive or interpret people around them, situations, or events in their lives. Values are oftentimes used to define a person’s wants, needs and interest.

Values relate to our personal principles, morals, and ideals—that is, what we consider to be important.Each person is unique, with their own personal values and beliefs shaped by a number of factors that include culture, religion, and personal experiences.We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits.

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.

In my personal life I value, respect, honesty and loyalty to the highest regard. In the past my morals and values were tested, but never compromised. By creating a code of ethics it has reinforced my values and generated a guideline for upholding them.

“Where’s the line between keeping your board informed and burdening the board with running the day-to-day business?”

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.

The personal value I believe in the most is respect for others. I lead with this value in mind. It is very important to treat others the way you would want to be treated. I do not like it when others yell at or talk down to me so I certainly will not do that to you.

Personal values develop throughout life from personal experiences, they guide us, individually, to make our decisions. Each person has a different set of values that we believe in, which is why we handle situations differently. Values can be influenced by friends and family, they also change one’s perspective on society and their role in the community. Everyone’s personal values are exhibited in many different ways. My English class took a lengthy survey to discover our personal highest and lowest scoring values and one that surprised us.

I agree that Values with differ in each person and are different based on how they were raised and what their culture is from where they were raised. I further agree that acting ethically is very important to a person’s integrity, which is a person’s values and moral principles. Kevin Daum of Inc.com feels that many claims to understand their own values, but he believes that they don’t unless they articulate them clearly by writing them down, and have tested them through daily decision-making. He further believes that your personal core values are there to guide behavior and choices

The values I hold most importantly in my life would be the ability to be resilient, resourceful, approachable, discrete, and reverent. Putting all these values into action are what has helped me to carry on with my life and stand as how I stand today.

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

A personal value system is a set of principles that guide an individual’s behavior, which provides a foundation by helping someone determine what is meaningful and important. Essentially, it is a foundation for individuals to express themselves and support their beliefs to society. Values is what defines a person’s character because it is impacting aspects of individual’s lives such as interactions, decision-making processes, and direction in one’s life. As for having the principles of morals is to know the difference between righteous decisions and unrighteous decisions. However, the importance of having values and morals is vitally important to establish because it influences their worldview and ethical decision-making.

Values are things that are important that guide us, individually, to make decisions. Each person has a different set of values, morals, and ethics, which is a reason that they can handle a situation differently. It’s not something physical that can be seen or be exchange in any kind of way. It is “that” something that is deep within which develops through life experiences and how it can make an impact on our personal lives.