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Bronnie Ware is a nurse who spent several years caring for patients in the last weeks of their lives.
In her book,
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
, she shares that the top regret people had was,
“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
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EFLECTION
In this capstone experience, you will use a
Self-Growth Paper
as a way to reflect on the growth you have
accomplished in this course and further your self-growth.
P
URPOSE
The happiest people in life are those who make decisions and choose to do things that are closely aligned
with their personal and professional values. They knowwhat is meaningful to them and work to accomplish
the goals they set for themselves.
What you don’t want to happen in your life, which happens to too many people, is to discover that you’ve
been living your life based on someone else’s values. It is like a mouse navigating a maze to get the
cheese, subjecting yourself to the requirements of their value system to achieve the rewards or avoid the
punishments that they have set in place.
Each organization, whether private, academic, nonprofit, government, etc., has a mission, vision, and
values. The organization tries to hire people who want to follow and support these values. When you
discover at a later point in life that you don’t share the values of your employer, it can cause a great degree
of discontent. You may find yourself waking up in the morning and feeling unmotivated and disappointed
or even actively dreading work because the only thing it offers you at the end of the week or month is your
piece of cheese: a paycheck. If you find yourself dragging your way to and through a job, career, or vocation
that doesn’t contribute to your inner self worth and doesn’t align with your values, you will probably find it
very difficult to feel confident and satisfied with your life. If you’re going to spend a third of your life doing
something, shouldn’t it be something you care about and that is meaningful to you?
The walking the walk of your own value system is complex because you live in a society with societal
values, work in organizations with organizational values, member of families with family values, and live
in communities with community values. The alignment of these values with your own values is how you
can be true to your own self.
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BJECTIVES
1. Strengthen your inner compass by reflecting on your values and living according to them.
2. Fortifying your inner strength by replacing external affirmation with self-assessment.
3. Learn how to effectively self–regulate by aligning your passions, values, and future. That is, learning
to walk the walk of your beliefs, values, and passions.