DO YOU FEEL FULFILLED?
Is what you are doing satisfying? Living congruently with what you value most is the key to the deepest fulfilment in life.
We all live in a moment by a set of priorities weather you realize it or not. Many of these values and, hence our priorities, have been created from your childhood.
When you perceive you are fulfilling your highest intrinsic value – it requires little motivation, reminders, or incentives for you to take action. It is that time when you are in your Zone. As you progress down your list of values, you’ll likely procrastinate, hesitate, and frustrate and tend not to perform well. Those tasks and will need extrinsic motivation.
This is why developing your company’s true core values and aligning them with each individual’s core values results in high preforming businesses. Or as they say: “If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.”
Your unique hierarchy of values determines what you perceive, decide, and act upon which comes from whatever you believe at that moment and will give you the greatest fulfillment in your highest values.
Make sure that when you set out to accomplish something truly important that it really is. Otherwise, you most likely will not achieve it. The likely result is self-depreciation and self-doubt because your confidence in yourself and belief in yourself decreases.
Your self-worth is a reflection of how congruent you are acting in alignment with your highest values, and your self-worth deteriorates as you go down your list of values.
Many people think they know what they truly value in life, yet often they are not really clear and the same goes for businesses. Their stated core values are platitudes, not true values. Like high quality – which of your competitors say their quality sucks?
Most people inculcate and inject the values of other people that they look up to: society's norms, traditions, conventions, belief systems, and their particular upbringing. As a result, they often have internal conflict between their true highest values and what they perceive those highest values SHOULD be.
If you hear yourself saying, “I got to”, “I have to”, “I must”, “I should”, “I'm supposed to”, you’re most likely not operating in your highest values. Want to learn how to gain more fulfilment in life? Let’s talk.