I don’t have many moments that could be constituted as “life changing”. In my twenty-one years of life I have only had a few small moments that gradually proved pivotal. Going into my junior year of college, life is changing in a big way in the fact I am only two years away from being a complete adult; my own job, my own living arrangements, etc. This is a time filled with changes and decisions that can drastically effect my future. Before, during, and after this class I have looked into how I should ethically live my life. Ethically, there hasn’t been many positive role models in my life. I really only have one person in my family that I can look up to as a role model and that is my cousin Dave. My cousin Dave successfully owns his own contracting
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My prime motivator is to live a happier and more successful life than what came before me. My family, both close and extended, have not been very successful baring a few outliers. One of my motivators is to impress and make my close family proud. I want to be able to show them that I took what was given and made it considerably better. Even though I may fall away from it at times, I try my hardest to abide by the golden rule, to treat others the way that you would want to be treated. This is called the golden rule because it can be so universally beneficial. It helps in almost every aspect of one’s life. Treating others with fairness and deserved respect will cause the same to happen to you, a karma system of sorts. I would want others to see me as someone to look up to, as someone who has seemingly “done things right” and can be influential onto others. If I am facing tough decisions, I rely mainly on my own ideas and conclusions. This doesn’t mean that I don’t look to others for help, it is just that I mainly use myself for this. My mother is normally my first go-to for important life decisions as I see her as logical and fair, I will also use my friends as a source for decision making that I cannot easily make on my
My prime motivator is to live a happier and more successful life than what came before me. My family, both close and extended, have not been very successful baring a few outliers. One of my motivators is to impress and make my close family proud. I want to be able to show them that I took what was given and made it considerably better. Even though I may fall away from it at times, I try my hardest to abide by the golden rule, to treat others the way that you would want to be treated. This is called the golden rule because it can be so universally beneficial. It helps in almost every aspect of one’s life. Treating others with fairness and deserved respect will cause the same to happen to you, a karma system of sorts. I would want others to see me as someone to look up to, as someone who has seemingly “done things right” and can be influential onto others. If I am facing tough decisions, I rely mainly on my own ideas and conclusions. This doesn’t mean that I don’t look to others for help, it is just that I mainly use myself for this. My mother is normally my first go-to for important life decisions as I see her as logical and fair, I will also use my friends as a source for decision making that I cannot easily make on my