Another little bonus…

Defining your Values

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for" - Oprah

Ten years ago if someone asked me what I valued I would have said, good coffee and sleep in’s.

Oh how life has changed and how I didn’t understand the concept of values.

Switch to today and I think of values as principles that help guide my behaviour. They are fundamental beliefs that help me choose one thing over another.

So if I value simplicity, it helps me choose NOT to over consume at the Boxing Day sales, filling my house with junk. It also helps me feel strong in the decision not to include my kids in all the after school activities.

When social media, friends and family express ideas on what I ‘should’ be doing - I hold strong to my decisions and direction because I’m clear on my values and what defines a good life.

Values are highly individual. How sad if they weren’t and we were all the same….

Oprah is right - not only are you defined by what you stand for - your life is a mirror of what you stand for. And the more clearly we can define our values, the easier it is to create a life around them.

Your little bonus exercise before the course begins is to Define your Values. It’s the first step in getting Back to You.

Here’s what you do:

Scan the list below and write down any that feel meaningful to you.

Then whittle them down (the list is not exhaustive - there’s hundreds to choose from if you have a little google!)

Choose your top 10 and write them in your worksheet. Download here

And then rate them in level of importance.

Reflect on your list. Is your life a reflection of these values?

Feel free to share your values and reflections in the Facebook Group.

As a little bonus listening - this interview with Sarah Hausler on the podcast is a WINNER  - the way she describes how we compare our values in social media is something that has never left me.

LIST OF VALUES

Authenticity
Achievement
Activeness
Adaptability
Adventure
Authority
Autonomy
Balance
Beauty
Belonging
Boldness
Bravery
Calmness
Celebrity
Certainty
Clarity
Community
Compassion
Community
Competency
Confidence
Connection
Contribution
Creativity
Curiosity
Determination
Directness
Discipline
Ease
Efficiency
Elegance
Energy
Fairness
Faith
Fame
Fidelity
Fitness
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Grace
Growth
Happiness
Honesty
Humor
Independence
Influence
Inner Harmony
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Love
Loyalty
Making a difference
Meaningful Work
Modesty
Nature
Neatness
Openness
Optimism
Order
Outdoors
Partnership
Passion
Peace
Playfulness
Pleasure
Popularity
Power
Recognition
Relaxation
Reliability
Reputation
Respect
Responsibility
Sacrifice
Satisfaction
Security
Self-Respect
Sensuality
Service
Sharing
Simplicity
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Solidarity
Stability
Success
Status
Strength
Teamwork
Thoroughness
Tidiness
Tradition
Trustworthiness
Unity
Usefulness
Wealth
Winning
Wisdom
Worthiness