Today, I want to share with you some benefits of being committed to personal values. This is not to overwhelm you with information, but to propel you to get started on this journey, no matter how old you are already.
Did you know that everyone alive operates by some sets of values? Most adults often overlook values. Some intentionally choose their values and are accountable for their lives. Others live by default, letting poor values creep in and cripple their results. That’s why being deliberate is so important.
Now, let’s see the following benefits you have to gain for maintaining active personal values
- Clarity and Fulfillment: Living by strong personal values gives you a sense of joy and certainty about who you are becoming. It reduces stress and eliminates confusion when making choices.
- Psychological Stability: Your values influence your perspective, guiding how you respond to difficult emotional or psychological states such as low mood, social anxiety, identity crises, or disappointment.
- Authenticity: They promote your genuineness and authenticity, saving you from living a fake or borrowed life.
- Better Decision-Making: With values in place, you make better and faster decisions, even when faced with conflicting or confusing options. Values play a critical role when you need to make simple or complex life decisions – remember that your life is as great as the last sound decision you made.
- Healthy Associations: Values help you choose environments and people like mentors, accountability partners, and communities that align with your aspirations.
- Morality Compass: Values serve as a compass, clearing your doubts about what’s right or wrong in critical moments.
- Growth and Contribution: Values help you grow into a valuable member of your family, workplace, community, and the world at large.
- Credibility and Influence: By consistently acting from your values, you inspire trust in others, and they increasingly rely on your sense of judgment.
- Better communication: When in place, your values determine your responses or reactions to things or people. Did you know that if you lived by great personal values, your interpersonal communication would be great 75% of the time.
- Behavioural Bulwark: Like cornerstones, values even dictate your attitudes, behaviours and beliefs about who you are, how you see other people, how you interpret the world or do things.
- Seldom Sentimental: Your values mostly help you bypass your emotions so you can act sensibly, based on guidelines. That means the more you commit to strong personal values, the more personally effective you become.
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In addition to the benefits, I also included here a few values you can choose to personalise, and live by:
- Trustworthiness
- Honesty
- Humour
- Empathy
- Relatability
- Authenticity
- Persistence
- Accountability
- Diligence
- Respect
Finally on this matter of values, understand that you will be worse off not choosing, knowing, and articulating them as a person, (parent, sibling, worker, worshiper, employer, etc). In today’s world where there’s wanton ‘noise’ everywhere, your intangible assets are more crucial; guard them! If you fail to commit to strong personal values, other floating values will commit you; there’s no vacuum in life!
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