Live Life According to Your Values

What are your values for life? Just to get things started, here are my current top values and passions:

1. In a Loving Partnershipn2. Joyful and at peace
3. Financially free and secure
4. Deep and meaningful friendships
5. World travel
6. A published write
7. In excellent fitness and health
8. Working from home

I have to say it can be challenging to put my values in order, and I give thanks to the book, The Passion Test, by Chris and Janet Attwood, which provided a great system to follow to really get clear on what's most important to me.

Ask yourself, Are you living your life according to your values? Let's say for example that your family is your highest value, but you work 60 hours a week at a job to which you have to drive 30-minutes or longer. When you come home you may bring your work home and or the stress of the day. How many QUALITY hours in the week do you have left over to live in your number one value of 'Family'?

Or let's say health is your greatest value, but again you work 60 hours a week in a high-stress job with too little time to eat right and when you get home you are starving and you eat anything and everything. Now you are overweight and unhappy.

Do this exercise: List your top 5-10 values and then put them in order. Next, list what you do with your day from the moment you wake up, in 30-minute blocks, until you go to bed. Check and see if you are spending the greatest amount of time in your day on your number one value, or any of your values for that matter.

Lots of people know what to do, but they don’t take action. Take action on what you know. The knowledge is within you, but the only way to manifest your goals is to take action.

There are no accidents in life. Everything happens for a reason, based on the choices you make; consciously or unconsciously. Which would you prefer? The same old results or will you make the choice to take control and define life on your terms? Once you know your top values and passions, making a plan to take action and make change will be so much easier.

To your happiness and success.