To Value, or Not?

Some of the work coaches do with clients involves helping clients identify and live into their personal values. When a person feels unfulfilled and dissatisfied in life, often they are dishonoring their own values in some area.

For instance fun is a legitimate value, but when fun is neglected, life is unsatisfying and unfulfilled for some people. Yet if you consider fun to be an invalid value compared to integrity, faith, or truth, you might be tempted to deny your need for it. Individuals, who aren’t honest about what they truly value, are often living into someone else’s values, while denying their own.

As a coach it is important to help clients determine if their choices in life are fear based, or authentically value based. Have you considered what values are important in your life? Are you living according to your personal values? I dare you to move beyond rote answers and really ponder what adds value to your life. Then make a list and evaluate if you are living a life that places value on the things you value the most.