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Live your Values Define your life
Living your life around your highest values can allow you to be fulfilled and focused, giving you the tools to choose easily what is important to you, based on those guiding values.
What are Values?
We all have values; they are the sum of your preferences and priorities, that you hold important in your life. Values are intangible, and sometimes be challenging to pinpoint, however, by taking a little time and allowing yourself some space, you will soon find the significant ones in your life.
It is important to understand that the values you hold significant are just that, they are yours, no-one else's so totally unique to you.
Examples of common values are: family, security, relaxation, health, humour, and independence, achievement, money, honesty.
Conflict can occur when you live your life without honouring your most significant values.
For example if you identify 'family' as one of your highest values, yet your relationships with siblings or parents are strained and difficult, it can lead to dissatisfaction, stress and unhappiness.
Similarly if you are stuck in the cycle of overeating and not exercising and yet health is a significant value for you, you will be out of balance; this imbalance will show up as stress and unhappiness.
Living a life aligned with your own set of values takes the difficulty out of choosing where to prioritise your time, it gives you a map to work with so making the choices easy.
Action Steps to define your values
- Find a quiet spot and some free time
- Think about the some of the values mentioned below, or add your own,
- Sort out your top 4
- Identify the gap between your reality and those significant values
- Write down what steps you need to take to align your values with your reality
- Take action today.
Below I have listed a number of common values. Use these to get started.
Family, security, excellence, creativity, beauty, to relate, to be heard, spirituality, adventure, fun, to inspire, to feel good, to nurture, to teach, to win, to be part of community, to contribute.
About the author
My extensive background in primary health as a practice nurse as well as my coach training and NLP give me a unique perspective to inspire, encourage and challenge my clients to reach for want they want. I am absolutely passionate about the power of the Coaching partnership which develops between the coach and client. This partnership can enable the client to achieve much more than they thought possible.
