Steemit Engagement Challenge S5W5 | My values

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Greetings to everyone

Welcome to Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 5 week 5 and here is my entry for the theme of this week's contest from this community

INTRODUCTION

Values are global beliefs that guide activities and decisions across a variety of situations. Values exemplify basic beliefs that a particular manner of conduct is an attitude or socially desirable to a contrary mode of conduct.

Values are qualities one considers to be beneficial and, as such, act as the driving force in their life. They take priority over other personalities and thus dictate how someone may conduct themselves in particular instances.

WHAT ARE VALUES THEN?

Values are understood to be those teachings given to help us walk the right path in life. Values can even be referred to as good qualities a person imbibes to grow and become a credible person and can demarcate right and wrong. Also, helps the individual make wiser decisions in life.

IMPORTANCE OF VALUES IN A SOCIETY

For every society, values are the most valuable. A society with good values is respected by everyone around as the individuals are compassionate about each and also behave ethically towards one another. Values are very valuable for the creation, growth, and sustaining of a life worthy of human prestige. The importance of values can not be exaggerated as they include;

MAKING BETTER DECISIONS
Values in life help any individual to understand what is right and what is wrong based on the values he/she imbibes. good values make the decision-making process a lot easier as an individual with adequate values is often likely to make more reasonable decisions.

GIVES LIFE DIRECTION
A man without any value is likened to a vehicle with no control, thus no specific direction as values tend to give us clear goals of what we want and how to get it. Values constantly remind us how we should conduct ourselves and act in different situations to achieve the right direction and purpose in our life.

One can say that values are what makes us human as in the absence of values, a man would be no more than an animal roaming the earth clueless about which way to go and how to deal with things in life.

VALUES BUILDS CHARACTER
Possessing reasonable values such as honesty, devotion, trustworthiness, efficiency, consistency, understanding, determination, and courage earns an individual a strong character. Good values forever help in establishing good character in individuals.

VALUES BUILD A SOCIETY
A better society is achieved if people reproduce good values. Values play a crucial role in our society as good values mean good and comforting surroundings with no ill acts such as stealing. A society where everyone only needs to do their hard work, with kindness, integrity, and other good values. People with such good values will help not only in the growth of society but the world at large and make it an ample favourable place to live.

WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE THE VALUES ​​THAT DEFINE YOU?

The values we deem special to ourselves prepare us with guidance and objectives in life. As they nourish us with a sense of right and wrong. When it comes to the values in life, I keep a few that I hold special.

MY VALUES IN LIFE

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Achievement is a fundamental value that is dear to me. What defines me best as a person is my devotion to success and my desire to make an encouraging contribution to society through my life and career. Achievement or success is hence one of the values that are most significant to me since, in today’s world, achievement and success are mostly connected to educational success. This results in me holding my educational exploits in great esteem and I always work towards achieving my goals to have better days.

Growth for me is another fundamental value and its significance in my life cannot be exaggerated. I reckon that my life is not worth much if I do not aspire to always enhance my achievements as well as in evolving to be a better person. This value of personal growth has been of tremendous impact on my day-to-day living particularly when it comes to my ways of living.

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Caring, honesty, love, and respect are the other essential values in my life. I can say that the first value that identifies me best in life is caring. This is an important quality because it enables me to give a helping hand to someone in need.

Caring and love is the simple act of building up and/or supporting others that are in need. This shows that there are still good people out there in the world. When we put aside our covetousness, we allow ourselves to see better chances to help other people in our community. I can say this value is the most valuable in my life because I find joy in helping others and it brightens my mood when someone appreciates me for showing them care.

IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR DAY DO YOU APPLY THEM?

My values don't need circumstances to be applied as they are what make me who I am in this life. These are values I tend to apply in my everyday life from dusk till dawn and back to dusk.

You don't expect me to say care, love and respect are my values but then, I apply them sparingly, no that's not possible. These values have become part and parcel of my everyday life.

WHAT ARE THE ANTI-VALUES THAT YOU HAVE WITNESSED THE MOST?

Anti-Values are those values that are deemed to have a bad effect on humans and society at large examples include envy, revenge, cruelty, hardness, hatred etc. These are values that are not beneficial in our societies.

All these are anti-social values we get to witness every day as even friends tend to envy each other's progress in life. Hatred is another popular one, I have seen neighbours hate each other to the point they teach their kids to do the same which is not supposed to be so. All these anti-social values will bring nothing meaningful to our society at large, and such should be made away with.

DO YOU THINK VALUES CHANGE OR GO OUT OF STYLE?

I think and agree that this is true as humans keep evolving as the days go by. I could say presumably that in our primordial past, certain values such as Ideology, sadism and revenge ensured some measure of safety, protection and less trouble, but they no longer have a positive role in our current society. Therefore, we can say that values can go out of style depending on the society we find ourselves.

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CONCLUSION

To help us grow into responsible and wise human beings, we need to realize that certain values such as love, respect, care, and humility must be given top priority in our lives and those of our children as they are the future of society. There is no better feeling than a society with the majority of its people having good values.

THANK YOU!

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I like to invite @starrchris, @Ruthjoe and @patjewell, and any other persons who would like to participate too to CLICK HERE for more instructions.

NOTE: Always have a smile on your face, as you are never fully dressed without one.