Building a Strong Foundation: How to Establish Your Core Values

Sep 29

Establishing Your Core Values

You may find yourself lacking clarity on which direction to take your life in, and this may cause you to feel restless. By establishing your values, you will have your very own personal navigation system to take you to your place of greatness. Find out how.

Values are responsible for the decisions that you make; the feelings that you feel; the boundaries that you set, and the behaviours that you exhibit. When you establish your personal values, you define the core of who you are and you are better able to navigate through your life and day-to-day situations you encounter with ease and confidence. However, if you haven’t given any thought to what your values are, you may have been experiencing indecisiveness, feelings of unworthiness, betrayal by others, and even withdrawn from your social circle. By establishing your values, you begin build your own personal brand of who you are and what you stand for.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN ANY OF THESE SITUATIONS?

Many times when you haven’t given much thought about your core values you end up in certain situations that can create a certain level of tension in your life:

Giving up your time to attend an event or gathering that has little importance to you.
Pleasing others because you are unsure of what direction you want to take your life in.
Setting goals, but failing to act on them since you’re unsure of your purpose.
Sacrificing your reputation in doing something for others that you don’t feel is right.
Not speaking up about something that you don’t agree with.
Having others tell you what to do.

HOW TO ESTABLISH YOUR CORE VALUES

Becoming aware of your core values and establishing them is actually easier then you may think it is because in many ways your attitudes and actions reflect your values.

Here are some questions to ask yourself to get started: