What exactly is respect? It’s the sense of worth or personal value that you attach to someone. Respect is an overall evaluation you give someone based on many factors – what that person is doing with their life, how they treat you and others, whether they are honest or not and if they seem to consistently do good things, large or small, for other people. In short, respect is a positive view that you form of how someone is living their life. On the other hand, self-respect is your view of how you’re living your life. In this two-part series, we will explore three areas of respect – self-respect, respect for others and other people’s respect for you. All three of these areas of respect are very important. It Starts with Self-Respect Respecting yourself means giving and defining your own worth and value as a human being. Think about this: if you do not respect yourself, it will be more difficult for you to respect anyone else. So it all begins with self-respect. But how do I go about respecting myself?
- Being an Honest Person…You must be honest with yourself and with others.
- Valuing Academics and Other Forms of Education…A vital key to self-respect is knowledge.
- Understanding the Impact of Proper Nutrition/Exercise…In order to be your best, you must feel your best.
- Understanding Financial Responsibility…Financial responsibility is a cornerstone to independence.
- Learning to Listen…Part of learning self-respect involves respecting the beliefs of others.
- Understanding the Value of Good Manners/Proper Conduct…Knowing and exercising good manners and proper conduct will make you feel good about yourself, and, in return, others will respect you for your good manners and proper conduct.
- Learning to Accept Personal Responsibility for Your Own Conduct…Part of being a respected person involves taking responsibility for your own actions.
Why Integrity is imported
Integrity is one of the fundamental values that employers seek in the employees that they hire. It is the hallmark of a person who demonstrates sound moral and ethical principles at work. ... Honesty and trust are central to integrity. Acting with honor and truthfulness are also basic tenets in a person with integrity. In each of our lives, we are going to be tested at one point or another on our integrity and ethics. Can you remember a time in your life when you were asked to do something, by an employer, friend, or associate which was outside of the lines of what you felt was right? What decision did you make? Did you do the right thing by keeping your integrity or did you go off the path and do the wrong thing? There are so many outside influences that test our moral and ethical behavior. Are you easily influenced by others or are you strong and stick by your convictions and stay on the straight path? Integrity is so important. I believe it is the number #1 quality someone should have .4 Reasons Why “Integrity” Should Be Your #1 Quality
- Trust – If you are a person that has integrity, your personal relationships and professional relationships will be genuine and the people around you will know they can trust you with anything.
- Responsible – If you have integrity, people will give you higher level responsibilities because they know and feel like you will always do the right thing.
- Respect – If you stand up for doing the right thing, people at times may not always agree with what you do, but they will have a great respect for you, that you stand up for what you believe in.
- Authentic – With integrity, you are looked at as real person, someone with class. People with high integrity never have to look over their shoulder for anything they’ve done. They can feel good about the choices they make.
What does kindness mean to you?
When I reflect back on times when I thought I was being ‘kind’, and doing what was ‘good’ or ‘right’ I have to ask myself: good or right by whom? starts at home. It’s about being true to our own feelings and values, and expressing this to other people so our feelings and values get an airing, and so those people know where they stand with us. If we’re not acting in a way that is kind to ourselves, we will not be acting in a way that is kind towards other people. Kindness isn’t lending someone money when you know they’re going to spend it on drugs, alcohol, or rack up more debt.Kindness is telling them you’re not going to lend them money and doing what you reasonably can to support them through their journey.Kindness isn’t heaping holier-than-thou judgement on someone in that situation.Kindness is finding compassion and understanding for where they’re at, while maintaining your own boundaries and respecting your own needs. Kindness is telling someone when we feel upset with something they said or did. Kindness is accepting where other people are, and not trying to change them. Kindness is accepting that might mean a toxic relationship is over – because we can’t change other people. Kindness is helping someone out; not to have some sort of debt owed by them, not to try and make ourselves look good, but from a genuine compassion for fellow human-being. Kindness is acting without expectation of reciprocity or recognition (although there’s nothing wrong with enjoying it). Kindness is an anonymous donation, it’s a surprise email with no expectation of a reply. Kindness is respecting other people’s boundaries. It’s trusting that that person knows what’s best for them. Ignoring those boundaries is not kind. Sometimes kindness is difficult, it can mean watching other people slide into a dark place and have to face up to the consequences of their actions. It means looking back at our own actions and facing up to the consequences of our own behaviour. Sometimes it means saying: “No.” True kindness can be tough, and it can leave us feeling less than kind.
But kindness starts at home. And as long as we are being kind to ourselves, we are coming from a place where we can show true kindness to others.
We all experience points in our lives where we face challenges, difficulties and issues. Often, we are told by friends, ‘Be strong, you’ll get through this’, or ‘You need to be more resilient’ but what does that really mean, and how can we achieve it in a practical sense?
This article aims to look at what resilience actually means and why it is important. I will also discuss different types of resilience, and provide some tips on how we can develop our resilience further.
What resilience really means
In essence, being resilient means being able to adapt and bounce back when something difficult happens in our lives. It is the ability to once again pick ourselves up after a trauma or painful experience. Our levels of resiliency will change and develop throughout our live, and at points we will find that we do not cope as well as others, as well as surprising ourselves when we manage a difficult situation. In another sense, resilience is just one of many psychological tools we implement to get us back to feeling normal again. Why is it important? As we all know, when we are in a weakened position where we feel as if things are going from bad to worse, it can be very difficult to find our balance, or swim against the tide, or, recover and regain stability. Resilience is important for a number of reasons; it enables us to develop mechanisms for protection against experiences which could be overwhelming, it helps us to maintain balance in our lives during difficult or stressful periods of time, and can also protect us from the development of some mental health difficulties and issues. Some of the various benefits to becoming more resilient are listed below.
- Improved learning and academic achievement.
- Lower absences from work or study due to sickness.
- Increased involvement in community or family activities.
- A lower rate of mortality and increased physical health.
Take your values with you
through life and you
will go far
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