Personal values
My personal values relate to the broader life goals that are very important in life and normally guide my perception, behaviour and judgement. Any values should be structured and categorised based on how they relate, so that the values that are correlated positively are put more closely to one another and have compatible motivations (Melnick, 30). My values are categorised into the group of personal and spiritual, family and my career values. The personal ones refers to various traits that I consider worth aspiring to and normally define my character. I prioritize these values in the order starting with honesty, responsibility then loyalty. Spiritual values are the ones that connect me to my faith and normally give me a sense of purpose that goes beyond my material existence and are related to the general social values that covers the wider society. They include justice, equality, freedom, liberty and national pride. The other category is the family values which involve loving and caring for those people who are close to me like my family members, parents and friends. The family values goes beyond the social values since they relate to those people who affect my life in a great way. The career values involve the expression and best use of my skills and talents for the purpose of having a positive contribution towards the society wellbeing and for compensation in monetary terms.
In order to pursue my values appropriately without sacrificing them, I consider a cause greater than myself as long as that cause does not lead to a senseless and life-damaging endeavour. I am able to pursue my happiness when I have a greater course in my plans such this happiness is not always self-centred or does not lead to undermining the outlined values. In order to accomplish the most important values to me I come up with a good goal setting structure, such that the gaols are prioritised. This organization of personal goals involves writing down my goals, planning on the course of action to accomplish the goals and then ensuring that I follow this plan until the said goals are achieved. I try to focus on success rather than the possibility of failure so that my mind does not concentrate on time wasters or things that will distract me from my values and the set goals. Without values and goals it is easy for one to spend time doing what is easy and fun while disregarding the long-term possible consequences of their actions since they will get concerned about the satisfaction of short-term personal needs.
These values are closely linked to my ethical background which is based on how I was religious brought up and the inherent human nature that dictates ethical and valued based behaviour. My ethical foundation is mostly sub-consciously influenced by my religious background such that it becomes impossible to separate the ethics from my childhood instructions on religion and faith. So far the religious foundation of my values and ethics has remained fairly intact and will continue to influences various aspects in my life. This means that in my career choices and decisions in my workplace will be in dependent on whether they lead to me being happy or unhappy. The ethical foundation has really worked for me before, so any career that makes me unhappy will have to be ignored. In similar manner, I will quite any job or friendship that demands that I go against my ethical background since such would result to unhappiness. Ethics are usually the principle base of good organisational behaviour (Colarelli and Arvey, 157). Thus, ethical foundation can lead to success or failure in the career that one has chosen.
Works cited
Melnick, Arthur. Happiness, Morality and Freedom. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Print.30-31
Colarelli, Stephen M, and Richard D. Arvey. The Biological Foundations of Organizational Behaviour. , 2015. Print.157
