Personal Success-Defining Your Values
Personal Success-Defining Your Values
By Steve Crenshaw
When it comes to living your life the way you believe you were meant to live you need to know what values you base your decision making on. How can you make good decisions if you do not know why you are making them? If you have goals that are thought through and you know these goals are at your deepest core value, how do you know that to be true if you do not write out your values so you can see them? Here is a good way to define your values.
1. What are you reading? Look at the keywords in the books you read or the tapes you listen to. While you are reading or listening take notes, get a feel for the material. This will help you pick out the value words.
2. What are the subjects that drive you to succeed? What gets your motor running? At one point in my life this value was food. I put food right up with family on my value system and at 270 pounds it showed. Write these items down also.
3. After you have gotten a broad spectrum of what you think you values are write every one of them on a single sheet of paper. Find 12 values that you feel are your top ones and write them on a separate sheet. Fold that piece of paper up and leave it alone for at least one day.
4. When you come back to the 12 values sheet you need to read it, understand it, make a change if you need to. Once these values are in your mind take the three top values and put them on a separate sheet of paper. These will be your guiding values. This may sound easy but it is not, if you really want to know what your values really are.
After you have completed this exercise try matching values to goals. If there are goals you have not been reaching maybe they do not line up with what you really believe. Maybe you will see a trend and be able to set new goals that do line up with your values. Either way knowing what you truly value will help you in your life’s walk.
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