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1、2.1 Personal Values and VisionShwartz （1992） defines that values are critical principles leading our conduct and goals. In order to gaining a comprehensive self understanding, identifying my core set of personal values is of great importance.According to the Personal Values Card Sort Exercise, it is

2、 found that my ten prioritised values are, in sequence, Pleasure, Health, Friendship, Excitement, Growth, Beauty, Helpfulness, Achievement and Wealth.Pleasure, as the result, is my core value. As the explanation of the cards for sorting, pleasure means to feel good. I always seek more meaning work s

3、uch as assisting others or pursuing and nurturing relationship, travelling in order to feel better. The essence of my pursuits is to enhance the physical and emotional pleasure. My second most important value is Health. I appear to give health greater concern than peers. In my view the healthy body

4、is the fundamental of a happy, exciting life. Friendship is indispensable in my life as well. I would like to spend my leisure time with my friends rather than stay alone. The next value is excitement. Life is too short to waste. I am always eager to experience all meaningful things around the world

5、. Helpfulness can be my personal values as well. To give other assistance and to help them out of suffering situation is one of the obligations for every human being. In many cases, only a little help you offered for others can actually solve their big problems.Although it sounds superficial, I do c

6、are about my appearance. As a young woman, keeping physically attractive is not only to please people surrounding, but also, more importantly, please myself.Last but not least, the truth is nobody can live in a decent highquality life without money. Thus, to be financially successful is another thin

7、g I want in my life.Personal values are the principle which guides the goal setting. When creating a vision and setting the goals, personal values should always be take into account.2.2 Vision and Lifetime GoalPersonal vision, like ones dream life, takes into account the current situation, and serve

8、s to point the direction of where we wish to go （Covey 1989）. Crafting the personal vision is pivotal for individual to move towards the right destination.The best possible self exercise （Sheldon & Lyubomirsky 2006） provides me a broad view of my personal vision. As far as I am concerned, I want to

9、live in a happy, abundant life with my family and friends, and enjoy my work. When it comes to my lifetime goal, both professional survey result and my own opinion are taking into consideration.To describe my goal and vision, I participated in a “Life Goal” survey （Personal Lab Org 2010）. Six catego

10、ries of goals are identified and fall into two larger classes of life goals, termed Intrinsic and Extrinsic goals. Intrinsic goals are those can directly satisfy innate human needs. The goals of Affiliation, Community Involvement, and Self-Acceptance assessed in this survey are examples of Intrinsic

11、 Goals. Extrinsic goals are largely focused on being a worthy person in the eyes of others or being recoginised by the society. The goals of Financial Success, Social Recognition, and Attractiveness go to Extrinsic Goals （Kasser & Ryan 1996）. According to the feedback, I appear to placemore focus on

12、 financial success, attractiveness than the typical study participant. On the other hand, I placeless attention on community involvement, Affiliation, and especially Self-Acceptance. In a nutshell, Iprioritize intrinsic goals over extrinsic goals to a substantially lesser extent than others.Although

13、 the feedback comes from a professional psychological estimation, I may not hold the same view about my goals. Speaking for myself, my lifetime goal is, at the end of my life, I am able to look back on my life as meaningful and complete. Surely I would like to have sufficient amount of money for spe

14、nding and successfully hide the signs of aging. However, I do care about my friends and one of my visions is to have some good friends I can count on all the time. Furthermore, I am willing to engage in a committed, enduring relationship in the future. Sometimes I appear fear of an intimate relation

15、ship probably because the family breakdown I experienced. In terms of the career goal, frankly speaking I do not have a specific one at this moment. Ideally I want a career which can utilize my character strengths and get a sense of achievement. It also should be both interesting and challenging. I

16、put my interests in the first place since I know few people can maintain good performance if they are not interested in the job and devote to the work. In light of the above, my vision and goals are set aligning with my value.2.3 Impact of self-awareness 2.31 Self-awareness and Personal Values/ Goal

17、sThe personal vision and values are hardly to be achieved if we do not aware of our resources and gaps. Hassed （2002） argues that unwillingness to inspect ourselves is a reason for making mistakes repetitively. Lack of clear self-awareness can easily lead us to a dead end, since we are highly possib

18、le to overestimate our capability, or vice versa. Self-awareness works for everyone to perform better and obtain success （Duval and Silvia 2002）. By identifying what we have, our strengths can be efficiently utilised and our gaps can be sufficiently narrowed as well. As a result, we can attain the g

19、oals and values easier. 2.32 happiness, success and effectivenessSelf-awareness is also regarded as a necessary approach to overall happiness and effectiveness. According to the investigation did by Smith （2011）, the awareness of thesecharacterstrengthsmay make employees work as a calling rather tha

20、n a job, and might increase their productivity, satisfaction with work, and happiness.Moreover, self-awareness can guide me to success as well. By understanding my strengths and weaknesses, I will go through a process of self-accepted, motivated and improved. These steps, eventually, will empower me

21、 to a bright future. Having considered all the arguments above, self-awareness not only plays a critical role when achieving my values, it also links tightly to happiness, success and effectiveness.3. Explore the Present3.1 Current Personal AttributesTo find out my current personal attributes, I foc

22、us on analysing my character traits by using tools such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator （Briggs and Myers 1995） questionnaire and the VIA strengths diagnostic （Peterson and Seligman 2004）. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator （MBTI） is a classification of personalities, which measures the preferences in i

23、ndividuals perception of the world and judgement （Briggs and Myers 1995）. After attempting this test, I was described as the ENFP type, that is Extroversion, intuitive, Feeling, and Judging. People of this type are enthusiastic and imaginative, spontaneous and flexible （the Myers and Briggs Foundati

24、on 2010）. It also indicates my willingness to experience all the fascinating possibilities of life. I would love to give support to others while I need a lot of external affirmation. I can connect events and information and react very quickly. On the other hand, VIA strengths test is an acknowledgea

25、ble online survey which ranks ones strengths in order. The top five strengths are relatively significant and need to make frequent use. Based on the survey result, my top five strengths are Optimism, Kindness, Perspective, Appreciate of beauty and Judgment. The result turns out to be in alignment wi

26、th what I perceive myself. From these tests, It can be concluded that my personal attributes are optimism, enthusiastic, perspective, generosity, curiosity, gratitude, judgment, flexibility. These attributes help me to my goals and value. For instance, my prioritised value and goal is pleasure. Sinc

27、e I appreciate the beauty of life and show strong optimism and enthusiastic, I am easy to be pleased and always feel happy. Furthermore, I am generous to others, which bring me lots of friends. I am wise and judging, which let me make right decision on work and study. I am curious to everything in t

28、he world, which push me to explore the word. To sum up, these personal attributes enable me to achieve my value and goals.3.2 Areas need to be developed Having considered my current personal attributes, there are three perspectives addressed here need to be develop. Some of my character strengths re

29、quire further develop while the weaknesses in respect of self-efficacy, and overall personal effectiveness should be redressed.3.21 Character strengthsA character strength is termed a disposition to act, desire, and feel that involves the exercise of judgment and leads to a recognizable human excellence or instance of human flourishing （Yearley 1990,