Explore the importance of identifying and living your personal values, how these values can evolve over time, and ways to discover your authentic values through exercises and seeking feedback. Aligning behaviors with your values is crucial for decision-making and personal growth.
Discovering your values helps you make decisions and identify who you are and how you live.
Understanding the behaviors that align with your values is crucial for living authentically and making fulfilling choices.
Deep dives
Discovering Values and Their Importance
The podcast episode focuses on the importance of discovering one's values and how they act as a code of conduct in the world. Values help in making better decisions and identifying oneself. While values may change over time, it is important to understand the behaviors that support and bring these values to life. The episode emphasizes the significance of understanding the behaviors that align with one's values, both individually and within a team or organization.
Creating Values and Behaviors
The episode provides exercises for creating individual values and behaviors. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on their toughest moments and the energies they drew upon to overcome those challenges, identifying descriptive words that reflect their resilience. They are then prompted to recall a proud moment in their life where they were at their most authentic self, noting the behaviors displayed. Additionally, listeners are encouraged to imagine how they would like others to describe them and to ask trusted individuals for insights on their own values and behaviors. The aim is to distill and articulate three to five values, along with three supporting behaviors for each value.
Benefits and ongoing development
The episode concludes by highlighting the rewards of living by one's values and making decisions based on them. It emphasizes the importance of self-accountability in ensuring that one's actions align with their desired values. It also acknowledges that values and behaviors can evolve over time as individuals grow and develop. The episode encourages listeners to periodically revisit and refine their values and behaviors, ensuring that they are living the most authentic and fulfilling version of themselves.
How can you discover your values? Values are important because it’s your code of conduct for yourself in the world to help you make decisions and identify who you are, how you live, ad how you interact with others. Your values can change overtime but you can develop them through a set of exercises to constantly come back to, reiterate, further understand, and deepen your understanding of what your values look like and the things and behaviors that are going to show how you bring them to the world.
[01:24] Developing Values [06:11] Exercises in Creating Values [14:40] Behaviors to Express These Values
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