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the value of knowing your core values

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The most import thing I can do as a Life Coach is to make sure I am doing my own self coaching and thought work. The EXACT same thin I encourage my clients to do. One of the areas I am experiencing the most growth in my personal life is around growing my business. As I grow my business, I learn to know myself better. I has been a beautiful dance of self- discovery and business development.


Inspired by Amy Porterfield's Podcase Episode #362: How to Write Emails that Actually Get Open, with Zafira Rajan, I was inspired to walk through Zafira's 5 personality pillars. They are your core values, your stamp of weird, your intentional impact, your unapologetic opinion and your zest factor. I, of course, initially started walking thought personality pillars for business purposes, but as I journaled and began identifying the pillars for myself I realized how helpful it was for me personally to know my pillars.


The first personality pillar is core values, Core values are the things that are important to us and we believe in over time. Things that we stand for unapologetically. Characteristics that motivate and guide our decisions. they are not things that we easily abandon. Core values include words like community, health, safety, and wisdom, Compassion, growth, thoughtfulness, and optimism. To help you identify your own core values, here is a simple activity you can try for yourself:


  • Do a simple google search or spend a few minutes on Pinterest and search core values. Review the list of words.  What words resonate with you?  Don’t overthink your selections. Write them down. 

  •  Group all similar words together like health, balance and well-being.

  • Then choose one word within the grouping that best represents the label for the entire grouping.  For example, out of health, balance and well-being you may decide well-being is the word that is best suited to represent your own core value in that overall category.

Your goal is to have 3 to 5 core values.


why is it helpful for you to know what your core values are? It helps us figure out what environment and people we want to lean towards or away from. For instance, if friendship is a core value for you but you've just started dating someone and they have few to no friends and little interest in spending time with your friends - this is helpful information to know. Or if security is one of your core values and you have two job offers on the table - one is a contract offer and one is a permanent offer - the permanent offer may be more attractive to you even though the contract offer may be more money. Again information to consider based on your core value of security. Neither offer is right or wrong.


One of my core values is compassion for self and others. It is woven throughout my Instagram feed and it is one of those things that no matter what someone else said I would stand up for compassion. I believe it's that important. Knowledge that this is one of my personal and business core beliefs helps me know who I want to spend time with personally and professionally. If I run into someone who thinks compassion is a joke or chooses to treat others cruelly, we simply are not a good fit personally or professionally. I won't tell them or point it out to them, i will just simply be sending them compassion from a distance.


Pull out pen and paper and think about it this week. What are your core values and how can they help you align with who and what you want to spend your time on? Share some of your core values in the comment section below.


 

I’m a relationship coach who helps you prioritize yourself without guilt and worry and I have one on one coaching spots available.

What is a life coach?

  • Somebody who holds a compassionate, safe space for you to share your thoughts and feelings.

  • Somebody who provides you an extra pair of eyes on your brain, increasing your awareness of how it works.

  • Somebody who teaches you an alternate way of thinking when the ways you have been thinking in the past no longer serve you.

  • Somebody who believes you can get the outcomes you want in your life and will encourage you every step of the way.

  • Somebody who challenges you to dream bigger and step into the future version of you.

  • Somebody who will say things you won’t want to hear but will always say them with love and compassion.

  • This is an investment in yourself that you deserve.

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