Discover Your Value System Here!
What are values and what can they do for me? You might be like me, and think “Values? That’s a bunch of airy-fairy new-age crap”, but stay with me on this – Values work, big time. I’ve used them and I’ve gone from sceptic to fan because I’ve seen how Values work and how transformative it can be to put them to work in business and life.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Identifying your values.
Which three most prominent things dominate and occupy the most of your personal space and professional space? What are the overlaps?
How do you spend your time? Where do you spend most of it? Which things take up the most time, second most time and third most time?
Which 3 things/activities absorb most of your energy and which ones give you the most? You’ll always fit-in energy-producing stuff.
Which 3 things do you spend most of your money on? You always buy what’s most important to you.
What are your 3 most orderly and organised spaces? If it’s important, you’ll keep it tidy, order is a reflector of value.
Which 3 areas of your life are you the most reliable and dependable? If you value the activity, you will pay the most attention attending to it, and caring how it gets done.
When you catch yourself thinking – what 3 things fill your thoughts? Thinking reflects your fascination with the thing you love most.
What do you daydream about most? Visualising the future and desired outcomes is a natural consequence of attention and fascination.
What 3 things do you talk to yourself most about, whether out loud or in your head? When we talk to ourselves, more often than not we rehearse a situational scenario. We argue points in an internal discussion and explore ideas.
When you are out with your friends or family, what are 3 things do you talk about most? Usually you share your enthusiasms, dreams, hopes for the future.
What inspires you? Which qualities and heroes inspire you? Who would you most like to meet?
What are your 3 most persistent and consistent long-term goals? What's stuck around for you, year after year? What's endured the challenges of time?
What are the 3 main things you’ve learned about, are learning about, or plan to learn about? Now, yesterday or tomorrow.
Collect your answers and tag them into broad categories. It can be helpful to use a simple colour-coding system to sort them out, e.g. red for business, green for family, etc.
Now you can craft your values statement to draw the threads together!
BEST MOMENTS
It’s obvious to most of us that knowing why we do something can be a powerful force – To work harder and strive...
We all have multiple values – personal, business, relationships, health etc. They vie for precedence, can conflict us, can cause conflict with staff, partners, sometimes they’re hidden from ourselves and they evolve over time.
Once you know your own values, you can help other people (particularly those in your team or in your family) to identify their values. Once you’ve done this, it’s easy to identify areas of conflict and discord when value sets don’t align or are radically mismatched.
Do set aside the time to do the exercise and unearth your values – you might just surprise yourself. I promise you that it’s worth the short time investment, and that the payoffs can be huge for both your business and your personal life.
In the next episode we’ll be talking about the 15 Commandments: the guiding principles that I have evolved over the last two decades which have kept me sane and happy through good times and bad.
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ABOUT THE HOST
Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!
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