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Lesson 10: Personal Growth: Your Values, Your Life

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Personal Growth: Your Values, Your Life Your values form the foundation of your life. They dictate the choices you make and determine the direction that your life takes. Your values will influence your decisions related to your  relationships ,  career , and other activities you engage in. Despite this importance, few people choose their values. Instead, they simply adopt the values of their  parents  and the dominant values of society. In all likelihood, the values that you internalized as a child remain with you through adulthood (yes, in some cases, people reject the values of their upbringings). Unfortunately, these values may also have created a life that is carrying you down a path that is not the direction you want to go at this point in your life. What were the values you were raised with? What values are you presently living in accordance with? Are they the same or different? Do your values bring you  happiness ? These are essential questions that you must ask if you are
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Lesson 9: What Exactly Is Self-Esteem?

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We all know that self-esteem sometimes referred to as self-worth or self-respect, can be an important part of success. Too little self-esteem can leave people feeling defeated or depressed. It can also lead people to make bad choices, fall into destructive relationships, or fail to live up to their full potential. Too much self-esteem, as exhibited in  narcissistic personality disorder , can certainly be off-putting to others and can even damage personal relationships. Self-esteem levels at the extreme high and low ends of the spectrum can be harmful, so ideally, it's best to strike a balance somewhere in the middle. A realistic yet positive view of yourself is generally considered the ideal. But what exactly is self-esteem? Where does it come from and what influence does it really have on our lives? What Is Self-Esteem? In  psychology , the term self-esteem is used to describe a person's overall sense of self-worth or personal value. In other words, how much you app
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Lesson 8: Gratitude

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Gratitude: Your Complete Guide to Living a Fulfilled, Positive Life Gratitude. Often, it’s that full and happy feeling we get when things go really well in our lives. It comes with a sense of peace and maybe with an idea that we finally did something to deserve the gift we’ve been given. We’ve probably all experienced that kind of gratitude at some point in our life. But what if it could mean more than that for you? What if gratitude became a perpetual, daily feeling for not just the big things? There’s evidence to suggest that being grateful, despite your circumstances can improve every single area of your life, and actually brings in more things to be grateful for. The universe listens when you express it, and responds by providing you with more things to be grateful for. That’s the magic of gratitude. And in this article, we’ll help you discover how to find it more often. You’ll learn all about the ways in which it improves your life, and some practices and techniq
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Lesson 7: The Role of Character Education in Public Schools

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The Role of Character Education in Public Schools Character education can be incorporated into a standards-based educational system in a variety of ways. "Is our only objective to get students ready for success in the workforce? Do we not also have a responsibility to prepare students to be active and engaged citizens? Don't we want our next generation to be caring neighbors, effective parents, and strong role models for the generation after theirs? Aren't we obligated to provide them with the skills they need to successfully pursue and achieve happiness and joy in their lives? I think we are, and I believe technological change and the global economy make it more important than ever that we focus on these things." Former State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) Jack O'Connell One of the greatest challenges parents face is how to help their children grow up to become moral people with values we cherish as members of a civilized society. While in
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Lesson 6: The Importance of Teaching in Values Education

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What’s the value of a value-based education? “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – CS Lewis Earlier this year we contacted a number of educators and technologists from around the world for their thoughts on the  trends and challenges facing education and technology in 2016 . One interesting thing we noted about the results was the fact that there were so many unique insights and so few overlapping ideas. Just as interesting, however, was an area where their thoughts did converge – namely, the importance of teaching values in education. Discover free tools to show values to students Putting back values in education While technological advances are wont to throw up all kinds of questions about pedagogical practices and the evolution of the learning environment, the role of values in education gets far less attention. This seems strange, given that developing a basic set of values has always been a cornerstone of a stud
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