Chasing Excellence How to Know if You Should Quit Your Job, Leave Your Partner, or Sell Your House
Oct 14, 2025
Join Robert Glazer, entrepreneur and author of The Compass Within, as he dives into the critical role of core values in making life decisions. Discover how to identify your true values through introspective exercises, moving beyond one-word answers. Robert discusses the importance of aligning values in relationships and how misalignment can lead to daily friction. He offers practical strategies to translate abstract values into actionable phrases and emphasizes living in harmony as a guide for better decision-making.
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Core Values Are Decision Frameworks
- Core values are non-negotiable principles that guide decisions and behavior across life domains.
- They are intrinsic, consistent, and help you choose who to spend time with, what job to take, and where to live.
Values Come From Formative Stories
- Robert asks about the root story behind values to reveal what someone actually means by a word like integrity.
- He traces values to formative experiences that explain how they show up in leadership, family, and friendships.
Use Six Questions To Discover Values
- Do the six-question discovery exercise to surface patterns in your non-work engagement, what people ask you for, and where you struggle.
- Group recurring themes and run them through a validator to make values actionable and phrase them beyond single words.
