Chapter 1: Become self-aware
Our values influence our decisions, our behaviors, and even our happiness. Our strengths give us the power to live by our values.
Part of being self-aware is understanding what’s important to you. Values are at the core of who you are and what’s important.
Take 20-30 minutes to identify your values and reflect on these questions.
Take 10 minutes to brainstorm your strengths.
Reflection:
What do you value? Do you value integrity, adventure, and family? Do you value achievement, balance, and health? What are your values?
If you sit back and reflect, what does your intuition say? Let go of what you think you “should” value. Let go of what you’ve heard from friends and family of what you “should” value. Dig deep, what does your intuition say?
Our values influence our decisions, our behaviors, and even our happiness.
We use values, consciously and subconsciously, to prioritize our day, react to situations, and to sway our decision making.
When our values conflict with other people’s values, conflict may arise.
When we’re not living in alignment with our values, we may not be happy.
Action: So, what are your values? Download the PDF above and identify your top 3 values.
How do your values show up in your life and in your career?
What do you want to do to be more in alignment with your values?
Then, focus on listing your strengths.
What are the strengths you know that you have? What have people shared that they appreciate about you?
Knowing your strengths can help you live by your values even more. It can boost your confidence. It can guide you to work on efforts more in alignment with your skillset so you’re even more successful.
Once you know your strengths, lean into them, use them, build them, to become your best self.
But, for today, let’s start with creating your list of strengths.