Posts tagged Little Time
Live Your Values, Define Your Life
Sep 29th
Living your life around your highest values can allow you to be fulfilled and focused, giving you the tools to choose easily what is important to you, based on those guiding values.
What are Values?
We all have values; they are the sum of your preferences and priorities, that you hold important in your life.? Values are intangible, and sometimes be challenging to pinpoint, however, by taking a little time and allowing yourself some space, you will soon find the significant ones in your life.
It is important to understand that the values you hold significant are just that, they are yours, no-one else’s so totally unique to you.
Examples of common values are: family, security, relaxation, health, humour, and independence, achievement, money, honesty.
Conflict can occur when you live your life without honouring your most significant values.
For example if you identify ‘family’ as one of your highest values, yet your relationships with siblings or parents are strained and difficult, it can lead to dissatisfaction, stress and unhappiness.
Similarly if you are stuck in the cycle of overeating and not exercising and yet health is a significant value for you, you will be out of balance; this imbalance will show up as stress and unhappiness.
Living a life aligned with your own set of values takes the difficulty out of choosing where to prioritise your time, it gives you a map to work with so making the choices easy.
Action Steps to define your values
Find a quiet spot and some free timeThink about the some of the values mentioned below, or add your own,Sort out your top 4Identify the gap between your reality and those significant valuesWrite down what steps you need to take to align your values with your reality?Take action today.
Below I have listed a number of common values. Use these to get started.
Family, security, excellence, creativity, beauty, to relate, to be heard, spirituality, adventure, fun, to inspire, to feel good, to nurture, to teach, to win, to be part of community, to contribute.
Busting the Life Balance Barriers
Sep 20th
Are you are caught in the work/life balance snare? Has the time thief robbed you of the life that you want to live? Join the crowd. Almost everyone is in the same boat. Everywhere I go I hear people talking about how much they have to do and how little time they have to do it. People are feeling bad that they can’t seem to get everything done and still have time for themselves and for their families. Many feel they can’t cut down at work for fear of losing their jobs. Others say they feel like a hen being pecked to death by her chickens. What are you saying?
I have just created a new ecourse and teleseminar series to help people get out of their unbalanced situations. I will outline it here for you and hopefully you will find that you can?apply some of the ideas and help yourself create a more balanced life. The first thing you have to do is to recognize that you got yourself into the unbalance and that you have to get yourself out of it. Remember that if you let life just take place you will never reach your goals. Success doesn’t happen by chance! Here are some things you can do to learn to manage the balance or integration of your life.
Manage your stress. Learn to deal with it and remove the stressful things in your life. You can do this most easily by looking at how you perceive things. Chances are that you are allowing yourself to think things are stressful when you could be responding to them in a different way that will not result in stress. Learn to manage your perceptions.Align your values, goals and beliefs. When you do so you will have a strong rudder to guide you in the decisions you make and the actions you take. You will be clear on what you want and what you are willing to do to attain your balanced or integrated life style.Harness your power and passion.
When you are doing what you are passionate about you find your power and you do things more effortlessly and effectively. You enjoy what you are doing immensely. Work does not feel like work. You are clearer and more focused on what you really want.Live intentionally. Be very clear on what you want and how you show up in the world. Manage your life, do not let it manage you. When you live intentionally you take control and make the decisions that will get you to your goals.Handle outside pressures by handling your inside self.
Learn to be more self-aware so you can know how and why you have the responses you have. Learn to manage yourself and you will be amazed at how well you begin to manage the pressures coming at you from every direction.Create action strategies to obtain the balanced, integrated life you envision. Just doing the thinking and the self-work will not create it. You have to make some hard decisions and take some tough steps to make it happen. Once you are there you need to work to maintain what you have achieved.I hope this has been helpful to you.If you have difficulty understanding or doing this it may be time to take a course or get yourself a great coach to help out.
