Core Values
Family is my most important core value. Family brings out the best and worst in each of us. As we yield to and serve others we learn to love them and ourselves in the process. Many of us could never approach this form of selflessness in any other way. I believe having my family as my core value will allow my life to be great because I have a strong support system surrounding me. My mom is a great example of someone who admires the meaning family. It has helped her through the toughest parts of her life she said.
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. ” My second core value is loyalty. Loyalty is simply the act of putting someone or something else ahead of one’s self. If I stay true to people and they know I will be there no matter what, I will be able to gain not only their trust and respect but they will in return be loyal to me. Loyalty and respect for me is about a sense of belonging to something greater than myself.
Loyalty will allow me to progress throughout life by helping me gain friends that know I will behind them. In my life I watch my grandma be loyal to my grandpa for 27 years. She said her best years of her life were spent with him. I have adopted the value of hard work through examples of my family, teammates, and coaches. Throughout my life, and every little step of progress I’ve made I’ve always came back to the same conclusion hard work is a requirement to success. The more I’ve accepted that I need to work hard, the more progress I made toward my goals.
A great example of how hard work as improved my life is that in every single job I have had I have received a raise. A person who has shown extremely hard work through his life is Thomas Jefferson. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ” Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). The value of friendship is something that few people take time to really appreciate.
When you need a friend, you realize just what kind of value friendship holds. Everyone values friendships, but it’s especially important because I live on my own hours away from my family. It provides someone to talk to and hang out with on a regular basis. Another well learned message from friendship is the value of companionship. I believe everyone one who has a friend is a perfect example for someone who has had their life improved by this value. A decade long study conducted by the Center for Aging Studies at Flinders University, Australia showed proof for my statement above.
The study involved about 1,500 elderly people and revealed that those who have a large network of friends tend to live longer by about 22% than those who have the least number of friends. I aim for growth in most aspects of my life. Personal growth is a critical component to my psychological well-being. Personal growth involves being conscious of my thoughts, feelings, prejudices, and judgments and using this personal knowledge to act with mindfulness and in greater accordance with my values and potential.
Being a college student is the perfect time to enhance my personal growth, because it is the time in my life where I have to learn to live on my own and decide my own future. The biggest part of personal growth for me is learning how to perceive my feeling and thoughts. For example, if I think life is a struggle, it will be a struggle. If I think I am tired, I will become tired. If I believe I am happy, I will see things appear that make you happy. Our thoughts are like a big magnet. Freedom is a value that’s really strong within me.
Freedom is something I value on all plains of life, from the physical freedom of movement to the mental freedom of thought and decisions. This value sets a clear direction for me, both to actively attain freedom and to prevent me from doing things that might limit my freedom in the future. I obtain this value throughout my younger years of my life when I was continuously getting in trouble and had my freedom of lunch and sports taken away from me. My best example of someone who admires freedom as a value is my dad.
My dad went to jail for 5 ? ears and now he is less reckless, insuring that he will not go back to jail. I’m here to have lots of fun. I love laughing. Good hearty laughter helps release enzymes and hormones that are helpful for normal functioning of various organs. In addition laughter reduces the levels of certain hormones, namely cortisol, growth hormone, epinephrine and dopac, which are associated with stress response. I am a strong believe in living live to the fullest and to do so I need to be having fun while doing it. Time is too precious not to have fun, but it’s so easy to let it slip.
Sometimes we’re just too serious and it’s so easy to get caught in that atmosphere. I’m dedicated to have fun and not let this happen anymore. Not to me, and if I can, not to anybody. Love is a central theme in my life. I need love and have a lot of love to give. Love for life, for people, for animals, for nature, for beautiful things, for the things I do and so on. But the most important is the love for my family and friends. Love can make me happy as if I was in a heaven, while being miserable and disappointed in love can make me feel like the whole world has fallen apart.
I have learned to love wisely, love will not hurt me, and instead it will lead me to a healthy life. An example of the benefits of love for others is in a case study. Love results in more activation in the part of the brain that keeps pain under control. A study of 127,000 adults confirmed that married people were less likely to complain of headaches and back pain. The reduced stress level also leads to pain relief, especially if you suffer from things such as chronic headaches.
