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Your Values

Your Values. How they impact your thinking. Definition. Values: To regard or esteem highly (Dictionary.com) Rules that guide our behavior Often “inherited” from family, also teachers, geographic area, generation, and experience (school of hard knocks). So what?. Benefits of knowing values

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Your Values

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  1. Your Values How they impact your thinking

  2. Definition • Values: To regard or esteem highly (Dictionary.com) • Rules that guide our behavior • Often “inherited” from family, also teachers, geographic area, generation, and experience (school of hard knocks)

  3. So what? • Benefits of knowing values • Make better choices • Make good decisions • Find compatible people and places that support your way of living • Live with integrity (wholeness or completeness) • Key to personal development • Manage stress better

  4. And so? • Knowing your values allows you to better know yourself so that you make choices and decisions that work for you • And so? • “You will live a fuller happier life; the more you live true to your values, the more fulfilled and peaceful you are” (P. Dodd and D. Sundheim. Best of Time Management. 2008)

  5. Learn to make better decisions • Values drive every decision we make • Need to prioritize your values as part of strategically planning your life • Use this knowledge to plan and organize your life • And so? • You will spend time on doing things that truly are important and (see previous slide) . . .

  6. Examples of strong values for Ms. X • Autonomy (likes having independence, unencumbered; a pet would encumber) • Religious belief system (Want someone with like religion to marry; more likely to share same values) • Family (always comes first; spouse with same/similar religion would encourage harmony) • Loyalty (remain true to commitments; commit only to things you value)

  7. More examples • http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/list-of-values.htm • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqk5mCIMyI

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