Speech 5. Personal values

Personal values

Good evening. Honored guests and fellow Toastmasters. I’m so thrilled to give my next speech here in this auditorium. First of all, I will show outline and order of my today’s speech for better understanding. My purpose is to give an idea of the importance of our personal values.

In our society, we communicate with others every day. We all have 2 hands, 2 legs, one head, 2 eyes, and lips, there are lots in common for our appearance. Therefore, it is important to define who you are by your personality, your purpose and your personal values to others. You should know yourself deeper.

So today I am going to talk about personal values.

Personal values are the general expression of what is most important and meaningful for you. If your family is important to you, if you can’t live without them, the family might be one of your personal values.

Personal values are built up through our life experience, environment, and family background.

For example, about me, I grew up in a very big family, I have a brother and 2 younger sisters and younger brother. We always taking care of each other and helping our parents. When I see my parents,

I learned from my mother kindness, generosity and how to love others. From my father, I learned harmonious relationship with other people and nature also learned to stand tall and strong for self-belief.

From our teachers, I understood that an education is a passport to meet life’s challenges with a clear mind. When I met my friends I learned the dignity and the meaning of honor. From my experience, I learned to be optimistic, passionate, strong, responsible, respectful, persistence and so on.

All core values are important for our life. Such as, if everyone knows how to respect others and act respectfully to each other, we will easily get along with each other and thus there would be more happiness and less conflict in our society, we will make the world a better place. Your values are the standard of behavior and ways of doing things that you think correct in a way for your life and work.

When your actions and decisions align with your values, you feel confident. When your actions and decisions against your values, you feel unhappy.

Why are values important?

1. You need values to un-clutter your life, to know how to respond in tough situations. Also, they are a set of beliefs or ethical guidelines that you used to manage your behaviors and solve problems.

2. We use them to measure right and wrong and to preference things important to us. It makes intelligent decisions easier. We are involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. The decisions we make are a reflection of our values and beliefs.  In addition, our values are a create of our thoughts, words, and actions.

Your personal values are the core of who you are and who you want to be. You can use them as a guide to make the best choice in any situation. They will help us to live happier and more satisfied life.

Do you know what are your values?

If you don’t know, I suggest you identify them, start to think back your memories when you were happy, when you were really proud of yourself and when you feel really fulfilled and satisfied with what you were doing. To give yourself time to think about which of these are most meaningful. Because there is no one knows about you better than you.

Thank you for listening.