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Aligning Values and Actions

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What are values? 

 

Values are the elements of our life that are most important to us.  Values indicate how we want to behave – how we want to treat ourselves, others, and the world around us. Values are often related to our feelings, to our goals and achievements, our relationships and our possessions, but they are more foundational than any of these.  As such, they guide us in determining what is right and important in our lives, and they also help us to make choices. 

 

It is important to aligned our actions with our values
It is important to aligned our actions with our values

What does it mean to align our actions and our values?

 

When our actions are in alignment with our values, we are engaged in the activities that allow us to be the person we desire to be. We feel clear, focused and engaged, and even if we are doing things that are challenging, we feel a sense of satisfaction and purpose. 

 

When we are avoidant, distracted or lose sight of who we want to be, then our actions will drift out of alignment with our values.  The challenge for all of us is to be aware of this lack of alignment and then take steps to move our actions back into alignment with our values.  Making these shifts can be challenging.  Our thoughts and beliefs can undermine our will and our motivation, and our addictive, avoidant behaviors blind us to who we want to be and how we want to show up, leaving many to believe that it is impossible to shift these patterns, but this is absolutely not true.

 

We can change, grow, and realign our actions and our values.  The 5 Essential Practices give us the tools to more effectively navigate the negative beliefs and mental noise, and the unhelpful patterns of addiction, distraction and forgetfulness, so that we can do the important stuff in our life.



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