OUR LIFE IS DRIVEN by priorities and the secret to understanding our priorities lies in values. Values determine our boundaries – that means how far we will go on questionable issues. Such values are absolutely necessary. Knowing what matters – what we value – is key to living a life of meaning , purpose and happiness. Finding our own values that are important for us is worth the effort.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
–M. Scott Peck
Values, herewith, help us determine our daily decisions. They influence not only small decisions, but also big choices.
Dreary, that some people don’t take their values not too seriously. They handle important decisions without any strategy or background. They adapt their thinking and their imagination how they want, cannot explain the reasons for decisions and too often try to seek excuses.
And when problems come up, they seek like a mouse a hole.
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If we can’t determine right from wrong, then we lack the right feeling for moral, not religion.
Pursuing a life of value can be costly. It comes with a price. It certainly is not easy following rigidly the own values. But when we have decided us really for a life with values, we can sit down and can relax. The days of lying, cheating or stealing are over. We from now on lead an honest life.
We all face the temptation to disregard our values from time to time, especially under pressure. We are human beings, that is only normal.
But, compromising your values will one day catch up with you.
Values make sense. They give you confidence. They are the map on the journey of self-discovery. Values help keep us on the right road.
Do you follow values?
Which ones?
Here is a list of values for you:
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Accountability Accuracy Achievement Adventurousness Altruism Ambition Assertiveness Balance Being the best Belonging Boldness Calmness Carefulness Challenge Cheerfulness Clear-mindedness Commitment Community Compassion Competitiveness Consistency Contentment Continuous Improvement Contribution Control Cooperation Correctness Courtesy Creativity Curiosity Decisiveness Democraticness Dependability Determination Devoutness Diligence Discipline Discretion Diversity Dynamism Economy Effectiveness Efficiency Elegance Empathy Enjoyment Enthusiasm Equality | Excellence Excitement Expertise Exploration Expressiveness Fairness Faith Family-orientedness Fidelity Fitness Fluency Focus Freedom Fun Generosity Goodness Grace Growth Happiness Hard Work Health Helping Society Holiness Honesty Honor Humility Independence Ingenuity Inner Harmony Inquisitiveness Insightfulness Intelligence Intellectual Status Intuition Joy Justice Leadership Legacy Love Loyalty Making a difference Mastery Merit Obedience Openness Order Originality Patriotism | Perfection Piety Positivity Practicality Preparedness Professionalism Prudence Quality-orientation Reliability Resourcefulness Restraint Results-oriented Rigor Security Self-actualization Self-control Selflessness Self-reliance Sensitivity Serenity Service Shrewdness Simplicity Soundness Speed Spontaneity Stability Strategic Strength Structure Success Support Teamwork Temperance Thankfulness Thoroughness Thoughtfulness Timeliness Tolerance Traditionalism Trustworthiness Truth-seeking Understanding Uniqueness Unity Usefulness Vision Vitality |
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Use the above list of common personal values to help you get started – aim for about 10 TOP values.
So, take the time to understand the real priorities in your life, and you will be able to determine the best direction for you and your life goals!
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Therefore you should continuously check your values again. Keeping in touch with your values is a lifelong exercise.
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Karin Sebelin, I enjoyed reading your very astute and perspicacious article. It is true that our values inform our thoughts, words and actions every single moment of our lives.
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value”. Albert Einstein
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” Sigmund Freud,
Thank you, Jonathan …. we appreciate your kind comment !