Identifying Your Personal Values
Have you taken the time to really identify what is it that really drives you? AND What is it that really matters the most?
Our core values shape who we are. They become standards by which we order our lives and make our choices. Your values are stable long-lasting beliefs about what is important to you. They’re the ground you stand on, one on which you can build the essence of your life. To be true to yourself, you need to know what those values are.
Instead of allowing your achievements or outside influences shape your life, identifying your core values will help you to be true to yourself. You must be able to articulate your values in order to make clear, rational, responsible and consistent decisions.
The 'Triple-A' Strategies for Identifying Your Personal Values
Experts say, clear values point the needle of our compass, illuminating the pathway toward living a purposeful and meaningful life. No matter what you achieve, until you define what success really means to you, you will just be chasing the wind. That is why you see people who are recording back to back success in their career and business but still, feel lost.
A. ADMIRATION
Who do you admire in your industry? Which celebrity or media icon or movie character have you seen who exhibit the qualities you admire?
Take some time to think about some positive role models who inspire you to live a meaningful life. It really doesn't matter whether you know them personally or not - so far they activate some inspirational thought in you.
In order to use ADMIRATION as an effective strategy for identifying your values, answer the following 3 questions about the people you admire:
(i) what exactly inspires you about the people you admire?
(ii) what exactly are the qualities you admire?
(iii) what actions, behaviours would you like to emulate from them?
B. ACTION
Can you recall an experience in which you took a stand for something or someone on a particular issues?
This may be a one-off stand or a regular stand you take whenever that issue comes up.
It is important to give our actions some consideration as our core values reveal themselves through our actions but we may be blinded by how close the actions are that we may not see how it signals our core values.
In order to use ACTIONS as an effective strategy for identifying your values, answer the following 3 questions about your actions:
(i) what feelings motivated you to speak or act the way you did?
(ii) what were you willing to risk for the stand you took?
(iii) what did you gain or lose in the process?
C. AUTHENTICITY
Can you recall situations were you found yourself like a square peg in a square hole? A situation where you really feel most like yourself. When you’re in situations that allow you to be authentic, that’s a clue that you are in alignment with your values. And when you have to betray that alignment, so as to fit in or find success, you feel like a pseudo.
In order to use AUTHENTICITY as an effective strategy for identifying your values, answer the following questions about your alignment:
(i) Feeling of Non-alignment
When you found yourself in this situation, what was happening?
Who were you with?
What feelings were triggered?
What did these experiences cost you emotionally or physically
(ii) Feeling of Alignment
When you found yourself in this situation, what was happening?
Who were you with?
What feelings were triggered?
What did these experiences cost you emotionally or physically
Have you taken the time to really identify what is it that really drives you? AND What is it that really matters the most?
Our core values shape who we are. They become standards by which we order our lives and make our choices. Your values are stable long-lasting beliefs about what is important to you. They’re the ground you stand on, one on which you can build the essence of your life. To be true to yourself, you need to know what those values are.
Instead of allowing your achievements or outside influences shape your life, identifying your core values will help you to be true to yourself. You must be able to articulate your values in order to make clear, rational, responsible and consistent decisions.
The 'Triple-A' Strategies for Identifying Your Personal Values
Experts say, clear values point the needle of our compass, illuminating the pathway toward living a purposeful and meaningful life. No matter what you achieve, until you define what success really means to you, you will just be chasing the wind. That is why you see people who are recording back to back success in their career and business but still, feel lost.
A. ADMIRATION
Who do you admire in your industry? Which celebrity or media icon or movie character have you seen who exhibit the qualities you admire?
Take some time to think about some positive role models who inspire you to live a meaningful life. It really doesn't matter whether you know them personally or not - so far they activate some inspirational thought in you.
In order to use ADMIRATION as an effective strategy for identifying your values, answer the following 3 questions about the people you admire:
(i) what exactly inspires you about the people you admire?
(ii) what exactly are the qualities you admire?
(iii) what actions, behaviours would you like to emulate from them?
B. ACTION
Can you recall an experience in which you took a stand for something or someone on a particular issues?
This may be a one-off stand or a regular stand you take whenever that issue comes up.
It is important to give our actions some consideration as our core values reveal themselves through our actions but we may be blinded by how close the actions are that we may not see how it signals our core values.
In order to use ACTIONS as an effective strategy for identifying your values, answer the following 3 questions about your actions:
(i) what feelings motivated you to speak or act the way you did?
(ii) what were you willing to risk for the stand you took?
(iii) what did you gain or lose in the process?
C. AUTHENTICITY
Can you recall situations were you found yourself like a square peg in a square hole? A situation where you really feel most like yourself. When you’re in situations that allow you to be authentic, that’s a clue that you are in alignment with your values. And when you have to betray that alignment, so as to fit in or find success, you feel like a pseudo.
In order to use AUTHENTICITY as an effective strategy for identifying your values, answer the following questions about your alignment:
(i) Feeling of Non-alignment
When you found yourself in this situation, what was happening?
Who were you with?
What feelings were triggered?
What did these experiences cost you emotionally or physically
(ii) Feeling of Alignment
When you found yourself in this situation, what was happening?
Who were you with?
What feelings were triggered?
What did these experiences cost you emotionally or physically
