Your Values
A sweet and powerful way of remembering who you are
I just got off of a mindset office hours for a program I am engaged in this year.
Usually, I lead the session. I mean, in other environments.
It was so nice to be a participant. Exhale.
I almost didn’t go. Because I have so much to do….yadda, yadda, yadda.
There are always reasons not to do or go to the things that will help us, support us, lift us, remind us, and take care of us.
Otherwise known as “honor our life.”
And I went.
It was sweet. It was simple.
And it was enlivening in all the best ways.
The facilitator, after engaging wins and other updates, invited us into a values exercise. It was quite simple.
The title was “Aligning with Your Values,” and it asked a couple of questions, offering the opportunity to connect or reconnect with our values.
In 2010 or maybe earlier, I clarified my main, what I refer to as my “operating values.”
These values represent the core qualities or ways of being that describe the place from which I choose to move within myself.
When I am embodying them, my life has a significant uptick. My life thrives at its highest vibration when I am intentionally coming from these qualities. It is just a different hum altogether.
Do you know what I am describing?
These values are create, connect, encourage, learn, and embody grace.
There are extensions of each of these that describe them even more fully and all the ways I feel myself within them.
I also know these values describe the places that I naturally AM.
The places where I naturally move towards and from.
The places where I feel most at home within my person.
The places where I know I am being used by God, the universe, to bring my entelechy to life.
The places from where I share and serve effortlessly.
By the way, that’s what I believe we are all meant to be doing.
It is the human condition that has learned and passed down that we must suffer, a lot, first. That’s for another post.☺️
Today, I leaned into CREATE.
It was quite wonderful to have this ten-minute rendezvous with this quality, this value that I so deeply treasure.
It is the source of much of the deep gratitude I can experience in my life. It constantly overdelivers in that way.
After sharing in the group, I was inspired to share here, just a bit.
The first question was: “Why is this value important to you?”
My answer:
Because it feels like it fuels everything else. It feels like my closest connection to God. I experience it as being my direct line to Spirit. I experience it as life force. I am energized by it. I am astonished by it. I am brought to my knees by it. I am renewed and restored from it. Create and creating, creation enlivens and inspires and gives me unending hope.
It felt so good to remember its impact on me and to share it with a few colleagues. It felt good to receive the conscious awareness of this knowing, this experience for me in this life I get to live and lead.
The remaining questions:
How do you currently practice this value in your life
What are 1-3 new ways you can start implementing this value? Be specific.
How do you anticipate feeling when you live this value on a regular basis?
I would add:
What’s going on when you are in this value? How do you know it is at work?
How might you block your way to this value and what action could you take to remedy this when it occurs?
I hope that this, if you are indeed reading this, you are touched, tapped, reminded of your values and how they could be more present and or living in your day to day experience.
Or, perhaps like me, it is just the reminder of how it already is moving your life and slowing down to breathe that in consciously will be the blessing for you that it was for me today.
If this post spoke to your heart, why not tap that little ❤️ and let me know? After all, values shine brighter when we share them. ✨