Personal Narrative: My Top Ten Values Exercises

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Hannah Hymovitch
Prof. Pederson
Life Planning and Decision Making
11/27/17
Values Exercises
Values Exercise 1: My ten most important values are 1) Purpose, 2) Hope, 3) Caring, 4) Contribution, 5) compassion, 6) Forgiveness, 7)Inner Peace, 8) Knowledge, 9) Achievement, and 10)Fitness. I think that my top ten values are accurate and I feel that they reflect what is most important to me. The value of creativity was hard to let go of because this value was also super important to me. I had the most difficulty ranking contribution, forgiveness, and compassion because they are all equal in importance to me. These values are very much present in my daily life. My values of purpose, hope, and inner peace are present in my daily life when I write letters
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Looking back on my weekly schedule, my values of knowledge, achievement, purpose, hope, inner peace and fitness are the most prominent. Knowledge and achievement show up with how often I do school and how often I clean and tidy up my room and house. Fitness shows up with how often I engage in some sort of physical activity. Purpose, hope, and inner peace show up in how often I write in my journal, and how often I meditate and stretch. Personally, I think that my daily schedule did a good job showing that my values are consistent with my actions but the order in which I listed my top ten values above is not as consistent. Looking back on my weekly schedule, it looks like the order of my values would be 1) Knowledge 2) Fitness 3) Achievement 4) Purpose 5)Inner Peace 6) Hope 7)Caring 8) Compassion 9) Contribution and 10) Forgiveness. This is because I do a lot more physical activity, school work, and cleaning than I do anything …show more content…
Ten things I like most (most=1; least=10) from the list: 1) writing- 4, W, S, A, MT, E (has 6 letters) 2) running-W, A, MT, E (has 4 letters) 3) reading-W, A, MT, E (has 4 letters) 4) listening to music-4, W, A, MT, E (has 5 letters) 5) drawing-W, A, MT, E (has 4 letters) 6) military exercises-4, W, S, A, MT, E (has 6 letters) 7)playing basketball-W, E (has 2 letters) 8) playing volleyball-E (has 1 letter) 9) learning sociology and psychology-4, W, S, A, E (has 5 letters) 10) learning Russian-A, MT, E. (has 3 letters) New Ranking: 1) writing 2) military exercises 3) listening to music 4) learning sociology and psychology 5) running 6) reading 7) drawing 8) learning Russian 9) playing basketball 10) playing volleyball Report: My two sets of lists don’t match. I am surprised that learning Russian was not at the end of the list and was super surprised that playing basketball and playing volleyball were the last two on the list. I wouldn’t want to change anything. I just learned that some of my hobbies that I ranked to be first on my top ten list aren’t ranked as high or low as I thought they would be

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