Exploring Your Values And Beliefs
By discovering your core values you will gain a valuable understanding of just who you are and what makes you tick – I feel this is a very important aspect of personal growth. This can be further enhanced by asking yourself – “what new values would be useful to me at this time in my life – to enable me to get where I want to go?” By discovering your values you can begin to resolve the hidden conflicts in your life, remove stress and give yourself more direction.
And we all have beliefs too, things we believe we can do and things we believe we can’t. The fact is – what you believe, tends to happen – so it is far more productive to believe you can – and then just do it!
Even if we haven’t though about it much, we all do have values. Some are core to us and follow us through our life and others dip in and out to match our needs in any particular circumstance. We may need more courage to do a certain task for a few months then we may slip back to more core values like compassion. Once you know what your values are you seem to have more choice in any given moment.
Eliciting your values is not easy, but it is beneficial; remember values are ways of being that mean something important to you. When you know what your values are (and they are in order of importance) decision making becomes far easier – as you just follow your values.
The unconscious mind seems to like to see things written down and clearly detailed. It’s like it has been given a road map of where to take you and how to behave. Goals are the what and values are the how of this road map.
Take your time with this – it may take a week or it might take a month, either way it is worth the effort.
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