Reflective Essay: My Definition Of Excellence

My first core value is Excellence. For me, excellence is the fact to set high standard for our own achievement by the same time believe that each occasion is an opportunity of growth. The difficulties that I encounter with this values is first, people definition of excellence. An example can be the definition of excellence according to the school. The part where it is stated that “we recognize others achievements” bothers me a lot. Can someone really judge myself as excellent or not? I do not think that others can measure either I am excellent or not. Secondly, another obstacle is the meaning of the word “excellence”. It is very vague. Thirdly, a problem is that I am excellent compared to myself or compared to other? How can I know that I am excellent (without considering this

I prefer to use respect that humility because I do think that no one on the earth is properly humble. For me Respect fit better with my personality in the sense that I define it as the fact to consider an individual as the same level as you or how you will like people to treat you if you had the same appearance, political status, job, age, etc. Obstacles that I encounters in term of achieving this values is people culture. In my countries saying “mum or madam” to someone is sign of respect. However, in some culture saying the same words is sign of insults as telling to the women in front of you that she is old. Second concern could be how society opinion about you. For example, helping a Sodexo stuff to carry a dirt bag can be seeing by people as a lack of consideration of yourself or can see you as coming from a poor financial status background. The third obstacle I encounter is the environment. In fact, by spending time in an environment where people do not have this notion of respect can be destructive. I now fell that walking along with this value is becoming hard. I tell myself now that “It is the job of the Sodexo members to do