If you had seventy two hours to live, how would you spend your final hours?
Would you go to the office? Spend the time with your family? What would be your strategy?

When you experienced emotional highs or lows in the past, what values were being satisfied or violated?

Are your goals a reflection of your values?

Overall values are an essential and critical part of who you are. Over the last few weeks my own values were challenged – to me it was the most serious of attacks and one I had to defend with every atom of my body. I realised that the analogy of the house was very appropriate in this instance. People could knock down the walls and the building but the values, the foundation could not be demolished. I found that I was willing to really travel through the dark night of the soul to uphold my values of honesty, integrity and passion.
Now imagine in your own instance that your goals/dreams are a reflection of your values.
You will never have to worry about your motivation levels in the context of striving to achieve the dream.

A wonderful exercise for you to complete is to highlight your own personal values hierarchy – it will give you a great insight into who you are. An additional angle to this exercise is to find out off your customers what your key values are – they can provide you with unedited and potentially more accurate information on this subject. For close to two decades I have been working as a motivational speaker, in that time I genuinely believe this exercise was one of the most illuminating that I completed.
Enjoy.