Do you know what you value? : )
With the New Year approaching, these last weeks of December are a wonderful time to reaffirm what -- and who -- we're grateful for in our lives. It's also a wonderful time to reevaluate how well we are living our dreams, and to make a little course correction if necessary.
I did a terrific exercise that I'd like to share with you, and which I hope you'll find every bit as enlightening as I did.
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Divide a clean sheet of paper into two columns.
Answer the following questions until your answers 'dry up.'
"What is important to me in my life?"
"What ELSE is important to me in my life?"
Write your answers down the left side of the paper. Keep going until you can't think of anything else.
Go back to the beginning of the list. Now define whether what you wrote is a MEANS or an END. To figure this out, ask the following question. " What will having this new 'thing' bring me?
For example, you wrote Financial Security. What will financial security bring you? Peace of mind? freedom? For this example you can see that financial security is a means not an end.
Double check your answer by asking the question "what will this thing bring me?" again.
If you can't fine tune it any further, you have your 'end'. Write this on the RIGHT side of the page.
This is your list of values.
Prioritize. : )
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What do I value? here are just a few of my answers...
- freedom
- peace
- vitality
- joy
- true love
- connectedness
- independence
- personal growth
- clarity of purpose
- full engagement in my life
--Merry Christmas to us all, and a Happy New Year--
and May 2009 be the year of our dreams!
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