Title: Personal Values: How to Know Who You Really Are
Headings: Personal Values: How to Know Who You Really Are
Personal Values: How to Know Who You Really Are
Table of Contents
Need Help Figuring Out What to Give a Fuck About?
You Do What You Value
Our values are constantly reflected in the way we choose to behave.
The Great Value Disconnect
Discover Your Personal Values
Optional Gray Box of Doom: Why People Who Hate Themselves Hurt Themselves
You Are What You Value
Why Some Personal Values Are Better Than Others
Evidence-Based vs Emotion-Based Values
How to Focus On What Matters
Constructive vs Destructive Values
Controllable vs Uncontrollable Values
Defining Your Values and Finding Yourself
What does a successful and meaningful life look like to you?
What is it that I want from this life?
A List of Personal Values
Grounding
Family
Management
Relational Awareness
Systems Awareness
Expansion
Reinventing Yourself
Step 1: The Value Must Fail
Step 2: Have the Self-Awareness to Recognize That Our Values Have Failed
Step 3: Question the Value and Brainstorm What Values Could Do a Better Job
Living the Good Life
A Four-Step Guide to Living Your Values
How to Know Who You Really Are
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Content: You Do What You Value
Every moment of every day, whether you realize it or not, you are making a decision of how to spend your time, of what to pay attention to, of where to direct your energy. Right now, you are choosing to read this article. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing, but right now, you are choosing to be here. Maybe in a minute, you decide you need to pee. Or maybe someone texts you and you stop reading. When those things happen, you are making a simple, value-laden decision: your phone (or your toilet) is more valuable to you than this article. And your behavior follows that valuation accordingly. Our values are constantly reflected in the way we choose to behave. This is critically important—because we all have a few things that we think and say we value, but we never back them up with our actions.