Personal Values Research Paper

Personal Mission Statement
My mission is to live each day positively in God’s eyes, honestly and passionately so that every day I am one step closer to reaching my dreams and helping others believe in theirs. I will be committed to inspiring others to be more than they think that they can be and I will be a continual learner committed to excellence in all aspects of life.

Core Values
Values can be defined as “a belief about what ought to be, what ought not to be, what is right, or what is wrong” (Chelladurai, 2006). I believe that values ground people and provide the framework for all decisions they make. I have four core values that I use to carry me through life every day and they are faith, family, honesty and passion. Faith is my number one value because I choose to walk by faith every day. To me that means staying strong in my relationship with God and making sure that all decisions I make are pleasing in his eyes. My second value is family. This is not limited to just my immediate or blood-related family. In every decision I make, I ask myself before or after whether it will or whether it did have a negative or positive impact on my family. With my immediate family I ask myself, “Would I be okay with telling Mom this?” I considered my volleyball teammates as family, so every decision I made in college I would consider the impact that it could have on my team as a whole. My third value is honesty. I always want to be honest with myself, honest with those around me and I expect the same from others. I believe that with honesty it is easier to build trust, loyalty and respect all around. The final core value in my life is passion. Without passion for the things one does, they will be just that “things.” I wa...

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... week and write out what I have completed, what I would like to be involved in and any other issues. Once in the weekly meetings I will use this information to speak up and tell my supervisors all of my thoughts in an appropriate and straightforward way. By the end of the summer I will measure this by reviewing whether I was given more tasks and whether the issues I brought up were reviewed.
Public Presentation
I will improve my public presentation over the summer by involving myself in at least three coaches meetings by the end of the summer. I will involve myself through presenting rules education material with the Compliance Department. My supervisor has offered the chance to do so and attaining this goal will help me become comfortable speaking in front of groups of people and help in reaching my goal of supervising an Academic Department for athletics.