I have important values in my life. One of my main values is education. A value is in your life whether it benefits you or not. Each person has their own personal values. This is because not everyone has the same type of everyday life. There are people who value new cars, expensive clothing, and a large home. Then there are people who don’t mind living simple and value the people around them more than things. Our values affect the way we are as a student. For instance, if you’re attending college, yet you need to pay for rent, work may be your first choice. It may be your first choice, but it isn’t your value. This is unfortunate because work can get in the way of your value. It can bring your grades down.
A value is usually not a goal because a value is in the present. Usually what you love relates to your values. As a little girl I can say my values were education, health, and family. Health was always important to me at a young age because I didn’t want anything to happen to my mom and dad. This was the beginning of my values but I had no idea. “Values exist, whether you recognize them or not. Life can be much easier when you acknowledge your values and when you make plans and decisions that honor them.
If you value family, but you have to work 70-hour weeks in your job, will you feel internal stress and conflict? And if you don’t value competition, and you work in a highly competitive sales environment, are you likely to be satisfied with your job?”(Mind Tools Editorial Team).
Education and health are two values of mine. Education is a value of mine because it means I will have a better life in the future. It helps me grow intellectually for my daughter. Education reminds me of my mother who was a school teacher. She made me value education. Education is valuable because the more educated I get, the better prepared I am to get a good job-one that I will enjoy and will pay well. It is not just a value of mine but a priority. My second value of life is health.
Health is having no injuries, illnesses, and a positive mental mind. I value health because I want to be healthy for my daughter. I try my hardest to have my family value health too. You show you value health when you try to be healthy by exercising and taking vitamins. Eating healthy vegetables, fruits, and more is important for me. I take health to the next level by trying to exercise.
My third value in life is family. My daughter and my family are always in the back of my mine. Every life decision I make is about my family. The things I do in life change, but my values stay the same. The definition of family in my opinion are people blood related who look out for each other and love one another. This is valuable to me. When I value my family, I teach my daughter the true meaning of family through my example. I will cancel plans with friends if my sister needs me to pick up my niece from school, for example. Life would not mean much if I did not have the family that I have now. In my family, I am taught that regardless of what challenges are in front of me, my family will help me. They taught me the meaning of having values. This is why family is one of my values in life.
Imperial Valley College should embrace work and health more. It should allow students with a doctor’s note to stay home. They should be allowed to turn in the work they missed late. Imperial Valley College professors should be given the right to ask a student super very ill if they want to go home to rest. “Values is a confusing word that often gets confused with ‘value’ as in the value you get from buying a cheap, but well-built house. Values are, in fact powerful drivers of how we think and behave.” (Changing Minds)
The college can add more classes on the weekend. Adding more classes on the weekend will help people who work. A lot of people do work on the weekends, but there are a lot who don’t. Imperial Valley College should embrace values. Values help you have good standards and morals which in the end will help you with your education. Imperial Valley College should remember people only have a little bit of values. These values do affect getting our school work done. Our values usually don’t drastically change as we get older.
The college seeing health as a value will help workers and more students not get sick. The students and workers will feel like the college cares about them. This can motivate students and workers to attend Imperial Valley College more. Imperial Valley college embracing values and adding it to the mission statement is fantastic. It really shows that the college does care about us.
Values make the person want to get out of bed. My daughter is connected to education because she makes me want to get up and go to class. “Values differ from person to person and culture to culture even though the most common values are not to lie, cheat, or steal. Each of these common values has a huge impact on the learning environment. Learning is strongly affected when students cheat. The student is not learning anything by cheating and the class as a whole suffers because the teacher has to enforce strict rules on the honest ones because of the cheaters.
Lying is the same, if one person lies, everyone suffers. Teachers cannot give students certain privileges if some of them steal because they cannot be trusted. This affects the whole learning environment because good relationships are built on trust and without good values, there’s no trust. If students possess good values the classroom can be a family environment where there’s trust the teacher can focus on teaching and the students on learning.” (Kim Miller). The school should be a little more sensitive to our values.
Sometimes students do abuse the policies and pretend there is a family emergency. However, there are students who really do have family emergencies. In this case, we need Imperial Valley College to add a value statement to the mission statement. Values are a part of us. It is great news to hear that the college is aware of this. At the end of the day, values are what really matters to us all. “A collection of guiding principles; what an individual considers to be morally right and desirable in life, especially regarding personal conduct” (Boundless Management).
