6 months ago I did a 10 minute exercise that changed my life. I did it while working with a career coach, but the impact has extended beyond just work. Context: Each of us have core, guiding principles that we value most. These = your core values. When you make decisions (big life decisions and even day-to-day choices) in accordance with those values, life is good. Here's how it works: 1. Start with a list of 100+ "core values" (here's a sample list https://www.scribd.com/document/403212954/values-exercise-pdf) 2. Write down the 20 that matter most to you. 3. Time to make some hard choices: Pick your top 10. 5. Pick your top 3. These are your core values. 6. Write your core values down on a sticky note and keep it on your desk Reflect about why these 3 are so important to you, what trade-offs you made in filtering down from you top 10 and top 3, and in what ways these values are currently present or missing from your career and life Since I did this, I've looked at my core values (almost) every day. I think about them whenever I needed to make a hard choice, define goals, or even decide how to spend free time. I also picked up a daily 5-minute end-of-day reflection / journaling habit and weave whether or not I feel like I "lived my values" that day into it. Try it out yourself and thank me later! PS - mine are: Adventure, Creativity, and Humor. :) #burnout #mentalhealth #growth #values
I did this a long time ago at an offsite training and loved it! I totally forgot my 3 values though and didnโt really do much after the activity. Excited to do it again and good suggestion re: post-it note and daily journaling, thatโs a good way to make it stick this time.
Nice. Can you elaborate more on the benefits it has brought you and how it has changed your life?
Sure. First of all, the exercise of trimming down from top 10 to top 3 helped me actually prioritize what I care about most. It's easy to make decisions based on things like money, "success" / "achievement", what your family or friends think is best etc. etc. when you don't explicitly think about it. When I got more purposeful about my values I pivoted in my career and now feel a lot more fulfilled at work. I stopped spending time on things that weren't really that important to me. The list goes on...
This is awesome. Thank you so much ๐
Blind users have three values: "TC" "or" "GTFO".
lol I was waiting for this comment ๐
Sry man. Good post btw. Do you think these values can help the company I chose? Would it be part of your process?
Personalvalue.es makes this a fun quiz
Nice ๐ Its actually personalvalu.es
Nice find! Thanks for sharing
We also have an internal tool similar to this at Salesforce
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Reading/vocabulary is poor. But have money for career coach, thanks ๐
congratulations ๐ช