Discovering Your Values: The Key to Sustainable Growth

Lead For Clarity

Shandel and Melanie dig into what's at the center of the Process for Sustainable Growth - Values. Living our values (even when it's hard) keeps us in the healthy cycle of growth and moving in the right direction.
Values evolve when we do hard work on ourselves and lean into personal growth. As we grow, we start to uncover parts of ourselves that we weren’t able to lean into before, or find things that we didn’t realize were so important to us. Finding our values is so important and digging into what really drives us?

When we don’t live our values, we off-ramp into the cycle of misery, which results in protecting ourselves instead of our values. Most of the time, people don’t do this intentionally – it’s out of fear, frustration or some hard emotion that we aren’t tackling. We can get off track when we aren’t in tune with our emotions or we aren’t dealing with them in a positive way. But we are able to get back into the heathy cycle by reconnecting with our values. If you find yourself in the cycle of misery and not living your values, it doesn’t mean you're a bad person, it just means you are off track and you need to get back on track! Lean into those hard things that you’re avoiding right now and make sure your values are at the center of your actions.
Truth and trust fuels us through the cycle, which we build through living our values. When we are truth-telling and trusting ourselves and others, we facilitate (fuel) our process through healthy growth.
A great weekly exercise is to look at your values and ask yourself if you’re truly living them, or what is one step that you can do this week to honor that value more? This helps us keep our values at the forefront and allows us to lean into them, even when it's hard!
Listen to the previous episode to learn more about the Process and click HERE to see the Healthy Cycle of Growth as well as the Unhealthy Cycle of Misery.
Below are some additional resources on Values, a topic that we have covered from many aspects!

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