✨Discovering Your Personal Values: From Confusion to Clarity ✨
This month's theme is Self- Discovery. Our weekly themes are:
Self-Awareness
Exploring Personal Values
Embracing Change & Growth
Finding Purpose & Meaning
Have you ever thought about what truly matters to you? The guiding principles that help you make decisions and navigate life's challenges. These are your personal values, and they are at the core of who you are and what you stand for.
As the legendary musician Elvis Presley once said,
"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do."
Your personal values are unique to you and they can help you make decisions that align with your authentic self. This is so important in our current environment of information overload and constant comparison. Let's tune out the noise and listen to our inner self.
👉 Choose 5 values from the 50 below that call out to you. Practice non-judgement as you find your 5.
What were your top 5 values?
❤️ mine were freedom, kindness, wellbeing, courage, simplicity
Words to Live By:
✨Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. - Mahatma Gandhi
✨"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."- Roy Disney
Micro Tasks:
👉 Reflect on what brings you joy and fulfillment. What are the things that make you feel most alive and energized? These can give you clues about what's most important to you. Personally I love HIKES, I love time in nature, I love my yoga and movement practice, I love creating/ writing on spirituality and self-development, I love time with my yoga students.
👉 Identify your core values. What are the guiding principles that are most important to you? Some examples include honesty, integrity, compassion, and courage. Use the table above for examples. My 5 were freedom, kindness, wellbeing, courage and simplicity.
👉 Take a look at your 1. Health, 2. Wealth and 3. Relationships and ask yourself whether your actions and decisions are aligned with your core values. If not, what changes can you make to live in greater alignment? My health needs simplicity, my wealth needs courage, and my relationships need courage as well!
Tip of the Week: Remember, your personal values can help clarify your decisions. When you are feeling stuck or lacking in clarity, simply come back to your values and ask yourself, “If I was embodying COURAGE, or SIMPLICITY what would I do?” And see if that helps you breakthrough.
