Values are not only nice
words… they are effective means to accomplish success.
Every action comes into
reality due to a value or another. Its role is narrowing the how’s in
relation to the action’s purpose. For instance, if your purpose is to help
other people, then your values will help you to define how to do it – by
becoming a nun, a good parent or a visionary entrepreneur.
If your values tended in
such a way that being a nun would make you act and help more people than being
an entrepreneur, but you made the wrong choice and you are working everyday
until ten pm, your life will lack in satisfaction and the sense of
accomplishment. If you made a good choice and still working until 10 pm, you
will feel happy everyday with the sense you are doing what you always wanted to
do.
By following your values,
your actions are full of meaning and they come directly from within – it is not
something artificial, done just because of the present fashion or someone
else’s wishes.
It means you
need to pay more attention to your personal values and understand them very
well.
- Differentiate what you really are from what you would like to be. In every culture, there are some values people assume everyone has and so, they don’t work on them. Be careful about it and very honest with yourself; if you don’t have a value or at least you don’t use it very often, it is important to accept it and work on that, developing it at a satisfactory point.
- How to develop a value? After identifying the value to be developed, or adopted, there are basically two ways for a person to do it. First, find a role model who helps you to understand what that value means in life – if I am honest, how does that look in a couple relationship? Second, to go on a spiritual path and by reflecting, contemplating and meditating, naturally improving the presence of a value in your life – by meditating, I feel more secure within, so honesty is easy, my words and actions express what I really am to other people, including my partner.
- Being a value keeper. Values are very fragile in the present environment where there are too many options and ways to perform an action. It is important to keep reflecting or meditating. Also, become a role model yourself, showing others how to tap into that value and make it part of your life.
By valuing
your values, you are changing your own life.
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