Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by understanding core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Knowledge. What is knowledge, and how do you measure it as one of your core values? Knowledge can be a tricky value to define. Does it mean educated? Does it mean “know thy self”? In an article published in Psychology Today, Dr. Gregg Henriques wrote: “In everyday usage, knowledge refers to awareness of or familiarity with various objects, events, ideas, or ways of doing things. But, as philosophers have noted for centuries, things get complicated fairly quickly. Consider, for example, the question: What is real? Is the coke bottle on my desk real? Are the trees outside my window real? What about the number pi? What about the pain
from the slight cut on my finger? As one ponders these questions, they quickly give rise to the question of how do I come to know things in the first place?” Here’s what I know: positive emotions can increase the brains ability to make good decisions! This has been Kelly’s Apple A Day, now go out and be fruitful.

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by identifying our core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Independence. I love the saying, “This is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” When we are young and living under our parents roof, we can’t wait to experience our independence. We are built to walk our individual journey, but we are never really walking it entirely alone. How do you value your independence? What place does it hold in your life? Do you wish to be independent of financial worries, or work obligations? Do you long to be independently wealthy or self employed? Think about it.

You don’t get what you wish for, you get what you work for. You may walk this road alone, but we’re all on a journey together.

This has been Kelly’s Apple A Day –- now go out and be fruitful.

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by understanding core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Success – Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions be louder than your words. Successful people do things differently. Here’s a great list: They create and pursue SMART Goals. They take decisive and immediate action. They focus on being productive, not being busy. They make logical, informed decisions. They avoid the trap of trying to make things perfect. They work outside their comfort zone. They keep things simple. They focus on making small continuous improvements. They measure and track their progress. They maintain positive outlook as they learn from
mistakes. They spend time with the right people. They maintain balance in
their life.

Maya Angelou said, “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Is success one of your core values?

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by identifying our core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Reason. According to the importance of philosophy, Reason is the process of thinking. Its fundamental attribute is clarity. It uses ideas, memories, emotions, and sensory input. It is the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic. Do you value reason?
Do people occasionally accuse you of being unreasonable? When we let our emotions and perceptions run away from us, we are on the opposing side of reason. “You do not attract what you want, you attract what you are.” ~Wayne Dyer teaches. But here is what I say – there are times when being unreasonable and breaking a few rules is necessary! Katharine Hepburn exclaimed once, “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ~

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by identifying core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Faith. What is faith to you? For me, personally – faith is belief in all things unseen. I take a leap of faith every morning when I wake up. I don’t know how my day is going to go, but I have faith that I am going to maintain positive thoughts and actions, I will create a great day, and I have faith that God has a plan for my life, my day, my moments. Faith gives me the freedom to feel limitless!

Wayne Dyer says, “The only limits you have, are the limits you believe.”

I maintain faith in myself, my abilities, my creativity and my tenacity. I maintain my faith in God in all things. Faith is one of my biggest and most important core values. Joyce Meyer teaches us to, “Make up your mind that you’re not going to quit…until you see the fruit of what God has placed within you.”

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by understanding our core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Loyalty. What does loyalty mean to you? Sometimes we think that we must be loyal to a fault. What does that even mean? Loyalty to a fault can be dangerous. It can make us unhappy. Being loyal to an employer or a job that makes us unhappy, or a relationship that is broken, or a commitment that we made in a moment of weakness. Does loyalty always create happiness? Being loyal to yourself and your happiness is a core value.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But you know what’s even scarier? Regret. Don’t let unfounded, or undeserved loyalty to a person, or a job, or a choice prevent you from growth.

This has been Kelly’s Apple A Day –I hope that you’ll seek growth like a plant seeks the sun - now go out and be fruitful.

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day. Today we are starting our 30 days of Growth through Core Values. Each day, I’ll be sharing one core value at a time, and planting seeds to assist you in cultivating, watering, growing and harvesting a fruitful and plentiful life. The idea here is to identify your own core values and figure out what really inspires you. It’s one of the exercises I utilize in my coaching and therapy practice. If growth is what you seek, spend the next 30 days exploring
your personal growth with my Apple A Day! It’ll only take sixty seconds to listen to it, or read for yourself. Share it with your friends and let’s all grow together! I’m filling my orchard with the fruits of people like you. Pardon the pun; I just can’t help myself! Kelly’s Apple A Day is meant to give you just a little bit of growth motivation to begin your day. Tomorrow there will be another one. And you can
count on the idea that its only sixty seconds. Just like the saying…. “An Apple a Day keeps the doctor away”…. Well, my version is: “An apple a day, keeps the mundane away”.. or stagnation, or stuck-ness, or whatever word works for you. I may get a little silly too, but that’s the fun of it. Kelly’s Apple A Day will develop, grow and mature like the rest of us.

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by identifying core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Family. What does family mean to you? Is it the offspring of biology? You can’t “choose” your biological family.

For me, Family is someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay, who watches out for you and wants the very best for you. Don’t let them go. Keep them close and don’t take them for granted. People like that are hard to find.

But, those of us who are parents need to understand that Our children, on the other hand are only ever lent to us. We never know just how long we will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, praise them, and hold them tightly. But most of all tell them you love them everyday.

Is family one of your core values? I know it’s one of mine!

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by understanding core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Humor. I love to be funny! I’m somewhat of a comedian with my own sarcastic wit. Occasionally, humor is actually a defense mechanism for insecurity or discomfort. Or, if you’re like me – you are easily amused and entertained. Humor is a sign of intelligence. People who can laugh at themselves, will never feel the kind of stress and anxiety that those who take themselves too seriously feel. Here’s a tip on finding humor in your day.

Practice random acts of kindness, weirdness and utter you-ness.

Try it. Find the humor in the mundane, in the mistakes, in the day to day of your existence. Laughter is the best medicine! And remember, Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs, but it’s your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.

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Welcome to Kelly’s Apple A Day – Sixty seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. This month, we’re seeking growth by identifying our core values.

Today’s Core Value is: Wealth.

If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. What does wealth mean to you? In our society, it usually means money. When we have money, we are perceived as being wealthy. What are some other ways we might consider ourselves to be wealthy? Are you chasing wealth? And if so, what kind of wealth? When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

I think that means that when we believe that wealth is tied to money, we miss out on the blessings of richness in love, friendship, health and abundance. There is nothing wrong with seeking monetary wealth. Just keep your perspective and values focused on how and what kind of wealth you are seeking!

This has been Kelly’s Apple A Day –I hope that you’ll seek growth like a plant seeks the sun - now go out and be fruitful.

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