Value Systems Your Personal Virtues

February 24th, 2011 Tags: core values | value systems | value system | set of values |a value system
Posted in Self Improvement

Your value system defines you.   It is your ideas and virtues that guide your actions.   This value system influences your decisions. When you follow your value system, make judgments and take action based on your virtues, you represent to the public what you stand for.

Your values impact every aspect of your life. This includes all decisions and interactions at work, with family and friends. Since your values effect all your decisions and interactions it is important to understand what you value.

Values are placed into the categorizes of personal, religious and paternal:

• Personal values, these are the virtues which we feel are important to obtain and uphold.
• Religious values, these are the virtues which we feel connect us to a higher power, something more powerful than ourselves.
• Paternal values, these are the virtues which we are taught by our parents and we pass on to our children.

As we follow our value system and interact with others, we see in them, virtues which we value.  There are certain virtues which are universally considered as standard for a person of quality character.  These virtues are accountability, faithfulness, trustworthiness and respectfulness.

• Accountability, a person must be willing to take responsibility for their decisions and the consequences of those decisions.
• Faithfulness, is commitment. You must be willing to stand behind what you believe, during times when the going is good and when the going is tough.
• Trustworthiness, a person must be honest and process the virtue of integrity. Society must be able to trust what you say.
• Respectfulness, a person must acknowledge the value of others. It is through respect that the understanding of one another is achieved.

No matter what our personal value system is, it is important for each of us to understand what our goals are and how we should go about achieving them. It is our value system or better stated our moral compass which directs our decisions.  Following our moral compass guides us on the path to achieving our goals, aspirations and happiness.