Clarifying Your Values 30th December 2017 – Posted in: Uncategorised
What do you stand for? What are the organising principles of your life? What are your core beliefs? What virtues do you aspire to, and hold in high regard when you see them demonstrated by others? What will you not stand for? What would you sacrifice for, suffer for, and even die for?
What are your values?
These important questions are only asked by about 3% of the population, and that very small minority tends to be the movers and shakers in each society.
When I began this exercise some years ago, my list had 165 qualities that I aspired to. I think I wrote down every virtue, value or positive descriptive adjective that referred to personality and character contained in the dictionary. And I agreed with all of them. I felt they were all important and I wanted to incorporate every single one of them into my character. Then reality set in. I realised that it is extremely hard to learn even one new quality, or to change even one thing about myself, let alone hundreds of things. So I scaled down my ambitions and narrowed the values down to a much smaller number that I could manage and work with. Once I had settled on about five core beliefs, I was able to get to work on myself and start making some progress in character development.
This is something everyone can do. Firstly, write down the five values that you feel are the most important for you to live by. Once you have those five values, then organise them in your order of priority. Which is the most important value in your hierarchy of values? Which would be second? Which would be third? Which would be fourth? Which would be fifth?
Every single choice or decision you make is based on your values. Whenever you decide between alternatives, you invariably choose the alternative that you value the most. And because you can only do one thing at a time, everything you do is a demonstration of what you consider to be the most important at that moment. Therefore, organising your values in an order of priority is the starting point of personal strategic planning. It is only when you are clear about what you value, and in what order, that you are capable of planning and organising other activities of your life.
Here are two things you can do immediately to put this into action:
First, clarify your core beliefs and your unifying principles. Write them down and compare your life today with the values that are really important to you. How do they compare?
Second, organise your values in order of their importance to you. Which of your values is most important? Which is second? And so on. Do your current choices reflect this order of values?
If you anything resonates with you from the above, I will be delighted to hear from you, and of course happy to help you, please contact me .
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Maggie Currie
Professional Transformational Coach, Consultant
Founder of MAGGIE CURRIE COACHING
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