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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Clarify Your Values
Clarify Your Values
By: Brian Tracy
Decide What You Stand For
What are your values? What do you stand for? What are the organizing
principles of your life? What are your core beliefs? What virtues do you
aspire to, and hold in high regard when you see them demonstrated by
others? What will you not stand for? What would you sacrifice for,
suffer for, and even die for? These are extremely important questions
that are only asked by about three percent of the population, and that
small minority tends to be the movers and shakers in every society.
Write Out Your Key Values
When I first began this values clarification exercise some years ago,
I wrote out a list of 163 qualities that I aspired to. I think I
eventually came up with every virtue, value or positive descriptive
adjective that referred to personality and character in the dictionary.
And I agreed with all of them. I felt that they were all important and I
wanted to incorporate every single one of them into my character.
Focus on Very Few Core Beliefs
But then reality sets in. I realized that it is very hard to learn
even one new quality, or to change even one thing about myself, let
alone dozens of things. So I scaled down my ambitions and began
narrowing the values down to a small number that I could manage and work
with. Once I had settled on about five core beliefs, I was then able to
get to work on myself and start making some progress in character
development.
Select Your Five Key Values
You should do the same. You should write down the five values that
you feel are the most important for you to live by. Once you have those
five values, you then organize them in order of priority. Which is the
most important value in your hierarchy of values? Which would be second?
Which would be third, and so on?
Learn To Make Better Decisions
Every choice or decision you make is based on your values. Whenever
you decide between alternatives, you invariably choose the alternative
that you value the most. Because you can only do one thing at a time,
everything you do is a demonstration of what you consider to be the most
important at that moment. Therefore, organizing your values in an order
of priority is the starting point of personal strategic planning. It is
only when you are clear about what you value, and in what order, that
you are capable of planning and organizing the other activities of your
life.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into
action:
First, clarify your core beliefs and your unifying principles. Write
them down and compare your life today with the values that are really
important to you. How are you doing?
Second, organize your values in order of their importance to you. Which
of your values is most important? Which is second? And so on. Do your
current choices reflect this order of values?
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
I saw this article about a a powerful book by a wonderful woman named
Bronnie Ware which focuses in on the actual voiced regrets of people she
encountered when they were dying. Powerful stuff – go and pick up the
book! Here’s a small excerpt:
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those
who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I
was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I
learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some
changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as
expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually
acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed
though, every one of them.
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do
differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most
common five:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that
their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see
how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured
even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to
choices they had made, or not made.
It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams
along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too
late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer
have it.
2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.
This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their
children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of
this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the
female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed
deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a
work existence.
By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the
way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by
creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to
new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with
others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never
became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses
relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people
may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking
honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and
healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship
from your life. Either way, you win.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends
until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them
down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let
golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets
about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved.
Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.
It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip.
But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details
of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in
order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true
importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the
benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary
to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships
in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and
relationships.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end
that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and
habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their
emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them
pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When
deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their
life again.
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way
from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again,
long before you are dying.
Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness.
article by Rich Gee
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