Your Governing Values Are the Foundation of Personal Fulfillment

This article by Hyrum W. Smith really makes you think and I really enjoyed reading it. It was about how identifying governing values will shapes our priorities which in turn help us make decisions  When we have core values that we can identify with we will be stronger and prepared to face difficult decisions. To help people identify values and see why they are important, he painted a scenario involving a volunteer and I-beam laid from one World Trade tower to the other. The objective was to see what would you cross the I-beam for. First he would use different amounts of money and then to save their two year old child, teenagers didn't work, before they feel off the tower. The end result was people understood why we need values and some understood that they didn't have values or that they weren't has important to them as they originally thought.
Then he left his audience with this challenge and last thought, "Take the time necessary to identify your governing values. This will probably be one of the most difficult things you will ever do, but it will also be one of the most rewarding. As those things that really are of greatest importance in your life begin to emerge on
paper, you will experience a sense of clarity and purpose unlike anything you have felt before.
And you’ll also find that the act of identifying and writing them down will suggest many things
that will start you on the road to doing something about those values." Having values will help us make decisions and become better people.

Purpose- Why is Hyrum Smith writhing this article?

He wants his audience to understand how have some governing values will help us.

Topic- What is Hyrum Smith writing about?

He is writing about how having values helps us.

Issue- What is Hyrum Smith hoping that his audience would get out of his aritcle?

He is hoping that we'ed take the time to make a list of values that we would hold on to and could use.

Conclusion- How does he help his audience do this?

He gives some examples of values that other hold on to and how they found them. Then he leaves his audience with the challenge to come up with their own.