My Best Value

My top value is balance. Balance is extremely important because without the knowledge of the importance of it and the ability to perform it my life would be a complete chaotic mess. This value plays many important roles in different aspects of my life from sports, school, and personal life. In my case being a young adult in college that is part of an athletic program and that also enjoys to party and have fun, balancing is a must have value. The short term goals I have include finishing this semester with a 4.0, surviving fall conditioning for track and creating memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life. The long term goals I have from having this value is graduating with a high GPA, finishing my track career with more All-American honors than I can count and …show more content…
It’s important to me because I see it as a way to show people that they can trust me. Being an honest person helps you grow as a person and allows you to connect with people on a different level. The one short term goal I have for being honest is to be honest about everything no matter what it is. I have the tenacity to try and spare people’s feelings even when they deserve the honest truth. A long term goal is to always be honest and continue to gain/build those strong relationships with people in my life. Obviously being honest 100% of the time is extremely challenging and when trying to be honest you encounter many different barriers. One is believing that the easy way out of a situation that I am in is to lie. Another barrier is not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings and the last one that I tend to overlook is sometimes I don’t believe is being dishonest is omitting or leaving out the truth. Ways to overcome this is to put myself in the other person’s shoes and think about how they would feel about being told a lie. I personally hate when people lie to me so I only think it’s fair not to lie to them. Everyone deserves the