Do you value your own values?
And why does this matter?
Either you are working for a company or for yourself, „creating value“ is well-known infallible advise.
With that said, are you taking your own medicine?
Are you living a life that is valuable to yourself? For sure generating money is required to live in this material world.
Yet, if not you are living a life that is valuable to you, you are living in dissonance with yourself. And if that is the case - no judgment with that. I’ve observed that people who achieve professional milestones - including financial gain - through intellectual achievement, might still end up feeling unfulfilled because *their* values are not met.
Independent of your main activity or field of focus, are you valuing and living a life predominantly honoring your own values?
So, what do you *value* then?
I mean not only what you aspire to be, but what you currently value in your own life.
One of the reasons to experience resistance: feeling „stuck“, „blocked“, or living a ‚meh‘ kind of life has to do what you living according to what you truly care, i.e., value, and *NOT* honoring that. Or at least not to the degree that you’d consciously like to.
Do you value living with humor as well as prosperity and also do you value integrity?
Maybe you value teamwork, candor and realism?
Whatever combination it maybe, I invite you to explore the following:
What are the top 3-5 values that you consciously deem important?
List examples of habits/activities where you *exercise* those values on a daily basis?
Look for examples of other habits/activities that do *not* match those values you initially selected.
If there is a discrepancy, voila, this is value input to bubble-up discrepancies.
—> Once your values are known, observe and track for at least 21 days, how did you experience YOUR values on a daily basis!
—> If values are conflicting; e.g. valuing activeness and restraint, then prioritizing and choosing what is most important in the immediate future is recommended. Try, experiment, & adjust as needed.
—> Here a great list to get inspiration of all sorts of values: https://management30.com/download/22939/