Before I left my role as Managing Director at a well-established marketing events agency back in 2016, I undertook a period of self-discovery. I learnt and articulated what my values were.
My only experience prior to this was around company values and I’d been involved in them a lot over the years but I had never really thought about or considered what my personal values might be.
What happened next was transformational.
I know, that sounds dramatic but genuinely it is true. In that moment I learnt how everything I have done over the years has been guided by these values without me even realising. Which meant that when I tried to make decisions that were against these values, I was left feeling confused or crappy about the decision.
Since then, I refer to them as keys. These keys are the things that enable me/all of us to make choices that are right for us. When our gut tells us something feels right – it is most likely because that choice aligns with our values.
Now I’m telling you all this because if you haven’t ever established what your values are you need to – drop a message to hello@nomoreifsorbuts.com and set-up a values discovery session. I promise you, it will be life changing.
But most importantly, if you do know what your values are and/or you’re just feeling a little dis-connected right now, it might be because you’re not living to your values as much as you could be.
If the word values or even my word of keys is throwing you off – think of your priorities. Are you clear with yourself and others what your priorities are?
For many of us, the pandemic gave us a great opportunity to consider our priorities and for a while it felt like we were living them a little more closely than before – but for many of us, that has now slipped away.
This has happened on a personal and on a business level. If there are challenges in your business right now, what decisions are you making that aren’t in-line with your company values? This in-congruence can create small cracks that eventually create huge chasms of disconnect and loneliness in a team.
Johann Hari, the author of Lost Connections shares that our consumer-driven society has left us detached from worthwhile values, which in turn contributes to depression. I’m not here to judge what you or your business values but what I will leave you with is a prompt to remember to connect yourself to these values and let them guide you in a way by unlocking the doors and decisions that are right for you.
We make the process of discovering your personal values or your organisational values easy. The first step is to set up a 15 minute discovery call. You can do that right here.
Discover those values, live by them, be happy.
