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Yeah, When in english I was asked to make a credo... and I thought I'd share it with you:

When I go about my life, I used to never think about how I wanted to live my life, by any rules or ultimate goal. I lived every day as if it were my last and never looked beck. Eventually, I came to find that as the fools path. Blindly choosing what I thought would get me through the rest of my life with no goal in mind. I have changed over the years, only slightly, I still live every day as if it were my last, but I now respect my decision, and look at each decision as another step to complete anything I set my mind to. A credo was not something I used to take with open arms, it used to be a list of goals no one could hope to achieve. By the time I hit High school, I felt completely foolish, and board with my life, and I always found an escape from my emptiness in books, and when my mother told me of a particular book All I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, I laughed, but read it anyway. His credo inspired me to think of better things it could mean then a simple list of goals. But his list didn’t fit me, yes it inspired me to do better and wish for those things that could make the world a better place, but those wishes were set too high to reach in a lifetime. Eventually I found a set of credos to live by, and they came from a likely source; a book. Now I didn’t read a list and say, “That is my credo!” it was more I learned a lesson and decided to live my life by that lesson. The lesson of the five balls.
It may sound childish to call it the lesson of the five balls, but it suits me, and it makes sense. The lesson of the five balls says that when you are born you are given five balls to juggle with the rest of your life; life, friends, work, family and health. As you continues to juggle with these five, trying to keep them all in equal standing, you come to realize how difficult it is to do, but you also come to relies that the ball for work is made of rubber, while the other four are made of glass. And you come to know that work will always bounce back no mater how many times you drop it, but the other four- family friends, life and health- will shatter if you don’t cherish them and don’t let them fall. Now, some people never understand the lesson of the five balls and will end their life treasuring work, and find only that it doesn’t cherish you back.
A credo revolving around a lesson, it isn’t that unusual, most people don’t even make a credo until a life altering event changes their perspective, and I am happy to make one before I have to face myself by the trial of the shattered glass lying at my feet. And this is what I have decided;

No matter what, never let your work outweigh your family, it is just a job.
Always respect that even if you have lived only for a moment that you can still look at yourself in a mirror later that night.
Your health is always more important then those long nights you spend trying to impress someone you hardly know, it isn’t worth it.
Never look back on a decision made to better one’s family or life, it’ll mean everything in the end.
Always know that people, pets and everything will die, never morn their death but cherish a life well lived.
Remember the lesson of the five balls, and tell everyone you can about them. You may help someone.

It’s not a long list, but it helps people understand why I do what I do. I never try to overstep my boundaries, but who can really tell what those are? I’d like to think, when everyone asked me why I chose this credo, that I can always say back, “Why Not?”