Personal Ethics and Values

Personal Ethics and Values

I believe that strong personal values more than anything else hold the key to happiness and success. The top three values that are the most important to me include caring about others, family unity and a good work ethic. As a wife, mother and a grandmother, my time spent with my family means more to me than anything else in the world. I consider my family to be my greatest achievement. I value caring about others because throughout my life I have a great deal of mentoring from others that has motivated me to be the best person I can possibly be. Encouragement from my own family, friends and educators had contributed to my work and personal success and happiness and I would like to return this debt to society. I also believe that hard work is necessary to be a good provider to one's family and to achieve personal fulfillment in an activity that consumes a great deal of my time. Work provides me with a strong sense of my own competence and worth.

My mission is to work hard to provide for my family and to be fully available for my family, friends and community whenever they need me. In my work environment, there's always a struggle to balance the demands of work with those of family, friends and the community. However, accomplishing this often seems that I have to be in two places at once. To cope with competing demands on my time, I've learned to ask for help from others when I need it and to return the favor whenever I possibly can. I've found this exchange to allow me to adhere to my values and mission while following the ethical guidelines described below. Therefore, throughout my essay, I emphasize the importance of both giving and receiving. I do not believe that expecting to receive is selfish, but a healthy mutual exchange that benefits everyone. Needless to say, there are always tradeoffs and conflicts between caring for others, being with the family and working despite the best efforts to resolve them. Therefore, I have dealt with this by setting reasonable priorities and have developed a philosophy and life strategy on how to stick to them.