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Values - How to Define Your Values and Live
Fulfilled
I find in the people that I coach and teach that the number one reason
that many people are conflicted, unhappy and living without inner peace
is that they are living a life outside of their values. It is difficult to live in
accordance with your values if you first do not know what they are. Our
lives are full of so many decisions that need to be made for practical
reasons that we often prioritize in order of what is immediate just to get it
done as opposed to looking down the road and putting a little more
thought into “What can I do today that will bring my actions in line with my
values?”
For example, If you have a family you may find yourself enrolling your
children in all the after school activities that their friends are doing –
shuffling them around to soccer practice, school performances, and
instrument lessons while losing sight of the fact you don’t hold true the
value of having competitive or over performing children. Your value may
be that you have a strong family with thoughtful and considerate children
but when is the last time you volunteered together anywhere? Or in your
career you may find yourself stuck in a rut at work where your work
seems repetitive and you don’t see any room for advancement. You find
yourself checking the online sites for similar positions elsewhere,
sending out resumes, and considering going back to school for your
MBA. Then after analyzing your values you discover that you don’t value
doing predictable work in an office. You value freedom, helping others
and creativity. Only then will you start looking for opportunities and
building skills in fields that will ultimately bring you more in alignment
with who you are and more on a track for fulfillment.
Values are not always strengths though sometimes they are entwined.
You use your strengths to live and give of your values. You can be very
good at schoolwork but the value there might be a love of learning. You
might be very creative but the value could be helping people. You might
be a great painter but the value could be expressing yourself through
creativity.
How to Determine Your Values
1. Run off the list of values below.
2. Get some colored pens/pencils and with one color take a quick pass
of the list, marking a check next to each value that is sometimes
important to you (up to 20).
3. In another color mark only the ones that are often important to you (up
to 10). Remember some values might lead you or contribute to a higher
value. Add any value to the list that you feel is relevant. To help
determine your values, ask yourself what the value is or was when you:
did the most exciting thing you ever did, feel your passion, what gets you
up in the morning, what you want to be known for at age 95.
4. Mark in red the top five values that are always important to you - the
things that absolutely define who you are (only 5). Tape these where you
will see them everyday.
Acceptance
Achievement
Adaptability
Adventure
Affection
Affluence
Agility
Ambition
Appreciation
Authenticity
Balance
Beauty
Being the Best
Belonging
Bravery
Brilliance
Calmness
Candor
Care
Career
Challenge
Charity
Cheerfulness
Clear-mindedness
Cleverness
Closeness
Comfort
Commitment
Compassion
Confidence
Conformity
Consistency
Contentment
Control
Conviction
Courage
Creativity
Credibility
Curiosity
Decisiveness
Dependability
Determination
Devotion
Devoutness
Dignity
Diligence
Discipline
Diversity
Effectiveness
Elegance
Empathy
Energy
Enthusiasm
Enterprise
Excellence
Expertise
Faith
Fame
Family
Fearlessness
Fidelity
Financial Independence
Fitness
Flexibility
Flow
Focus
Forgiveness
Frankness
Freedom
Friends
Gratitude
Growth
Happiness
Hard Work
Health
Helpfulness
Honesty
Honor
Hopefulness
Humor
Hygiene
Impact
Inner Harmony
Innovation
Ingenuity
Insightfulness
Integrity
Intelligence
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Love
Make a Difference
Modesty
Nurturing
Openness
Organization
Passion
Peace
Perseverance
Playfulness
Poise
Polish
Power
Prosperity
Quality
Resolve
Respect
Self-Actualization
Self-Control
Selflessness
Sensitivity
Serenity
Service
Sexuality
Simplicity
Solitude
Spirituality
Stability
Strength
Structure
Success
Sympathy
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankfulness
Thoroughness
Timeliness
Trust
Unity
Valor
Vigor
Virtue
Vision
Willpower
Wisdom
Wit
Youthfulness
Zeal
If your life seems out of alignment ask yourself what you are doing that is
not in alignment with your values. Then ask yourself what you could be
exploring to bring you closer to your values. Start now!
For the FREE article Surround Yourself with People Who Have Your
Weaknesses as Their Strengths or Strengths - Free Tools to Help You
Define Yours, or Change - Here's How! go to Mary Lee's Articles and
Tips Sheets page.
Mary Lee Gannon is an executive coach as well as a personal
turnaround, leadership and productivity expert who went from being a
stay-at-home mother with four children living a country club life to the
reality of a difficult marriage, divorce, homelessness, and welfare. As a
guest speaker, she demonstrates how she went from an earning capacity
of $27,000 to president and CEO. Her book "Starting Over - 25 Rules for
When You've Bottomed Out" is available in bookstores and online.
Email Mary Lee at info@StartingOverNow.com.
Fulfilled
I find in the people that I coach and teach that the number one reason
that many people are conflicted, unhappy and living without inner peace
is that they are living a life outside of their values. It is difficult to live in
accordance with your values if you first do not know what they are. Our
lives are full of so many decisions that need to be made for practical
reasons that we often prioritize in order of what is immediate just to get it
done as opposed to looking down the road and putting a little more
thought into “What can I do today that will bring my actions in line with my
values?”
For example, If you have a family you may find yourself enrolling your
children in all the after school activities that their friends are doing –
shuffling them around to soccer practice, school performances, and
instrument lessons while losing sight of the fact you don’t hold true the
value of having competitive or over performing children. Your value may
be that you have a strong family with thoughtful and considerate children
but when is the last time you volunteered together anywhere? Or in your
career you may find yourself stuck in a rut at work where your work
seems repetitive and you don’t see any room for advancement. You find
yourself checking the online sites for similar positions elsewhere,
sending out resumes, and considering going back to school for your
MBA. Then after analyzing your values you discover that you don’t value
doing predictable work in an office. You value freedom, helping others
and creativity. Only then will you start looking for opportunities and
building skills in fields that will ultimately bring you more in alignment
with who you are and more on a track for fulfillment.
Values are not always strengths though sometimes they are entwined.
You use your strengths to live and give of your values. You can be very
good at schoolwork but the value there might be a love of learning. You
might be very creative but the value could be helping people. You might
be a great painter but the value could be expressing yourself through
creativity.
How to Determine Your Values
1. Run off the list of values below.
2. Get some colored pens/pencils and with one color take a quick pass
of the list, marking a check next to each value that is sometimes
important to you (up to 20).
3. In another color mark only the ones that are often important to you (up
to 10). Remember some values might lead you or contribute to a higher
value. Add any value to the list that you feel is relevant. To help
determine your values, ask yourself what the value is or was when you:
did the most exciting thing you ever did, feel your passion, what gets you
up in the morning, what you want to be known for at age 95.
4. Mark in red the top five values that are always important to you - the
things that absolutely define who you are (only 5). Tape these where you
will see them everyday.
Acceptance
Achievement
Adaptability
Adventure
Affection
Affluence
Agility
Ambition
Appreciation
Authenticity
Balance
Beauty
Being the Best
Belonging
Bravery
Brilliance
Calmness
Candor
Care
Career
Challenge
Charity
Cheerfulness
Clear-mindedness
Cleverness
Closeness
Comfort
Commitment
Compassion
Confidence
Conformity
Consistency
Contentment
Control
Conviction
Courage
Creativity
Credibility
Curiosity
Decisiveness
Dependability
Determination
Devotion
Devoutness
Dignity
Diligence
Discipline
Diversity
Effectiveness
Elegance
Empathy
Energy
Enthusiasm
Enterprise
Excellence
Expertise
Faith
Fame
Family
Fearlessness
Fidelity
Financial Independence
Fitness
Flexibility
Flow
Focus
Forgiveness
Frankness
Freedom
Friends
Gratitude
Growth
Happiness
Hard Work
Health
Helpfulness
Honesty
Honor
Hopefulness
Humor
Hygiene
Impact
Inner Harmony
Innovation
Ingenuity
Insightfulness
Integrity
Intelligence
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Love
Make a Difference
Modesty
Nurturing
Openness
Organization
Passion
Peace
Perseverance
Playfulness
Poise
Polish
Power
Prosperity
Quality
Resolve
Respect
Self-Actualization
Self-Control
Selflessness
Sensitivity
Serenity
Service
Sexuality
Simplicity
Solitude
Spirituality
Stability
Strength
Structure
Success
Sympathy
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankfulness
Thoroughness
Timeliness
Trust
Unity
Valor
Vigor
Virtue
Vision
Willpower
Wisdom
Wit
Youthfulness
Zeal
If your life seems out of alignment ask yourself what you are doing that is
not in alignment with your values. Then ask yourself what you could be
exploring to bring you closer to your values. Start now!
For the FREE article Surround Yourself with People Who Have Your
Weaknesses as Their Strengths or Strengths - Free Tools to Help You
Define Yours, or Change - Here's How! go to Mary Lee's Articles and
Tips Sheets page.
Mary Lee Gannon is an executive coach as well as a personal
turnaround, leadership and productivity expert who went from being a
stay-at-home mother with four children living a country club life to the
reality of a difficult marriage, divorce, homelessness, and welfare. As a
guest speaker, she demonstrates how she went from an earning capacity
of $27,000 to president and CEO. Her book "Starting Over - 25 Rules for
When You've Bottomed Out" is available in bookstores and online.
Email Mary Lee at info@StartingOverNow.com.
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to help you:
1. United States of America's
primary source on career
information:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates
www.salary.com and Bureau of
Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job Search -
Post a Question etc.:
www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine.co
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6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_toolbox
.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
10. U.S. Government's Free
online courses, webinars and
podcasts for workforce
development:
www.onetacademy.com.
11. Occupational Outlook
Handbok 2008-09 by Bureau of
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http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.ht
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