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Self Discovery Newsletter

What is important to you?

February 2007

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In this issue
-- Goals and values
-- What are your values?
-- Quote of the month

 

Hi Karen,

Welcome to the February 2007 edition of the Self Discovery newsletter.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for subscribing to my monthly newsletter. I look forward to continuing to provide you with hints and tips to keep you inspired and motivated.

One of my goals is to increase the network of my newsletter by 30 subscribers by the end of this month, so please help me by forwarding this newsletter now to three others who want to take back control of their life! Thanks for reading and enjoy!

Karen Williams
Life and Career Development Coach


Goals and values
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In my last newsletter, I looked at New Years's resolutions and the secrets of successful goal setting. As I revealed, goals should be specific, clear and positive. I hope you are having great success moving towards and achieving your goals.

This month I am covering another important area that will help you to set and achieve your goals. These are your 'values'. If you don't align your goals to your values, they will be more difficult to achieve.

Values are the things that are really important to you, which lay the foundations for your ideal life. What you value determines what life means to you and the actions you take. When you honour your values on a regular and consistent basis, life is great and fulfilling.

Some values have been with you since your early childhood and some may have been acquired along the way. Other values can be discovered when you take the time to understand what is important to you. When you know what is important, setting goals becomes a more natural process.

 


What are your values?
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So how can you clarify what is important to you? I suggest you carry out the following activity.

Take 30 minutes to consider the following questions and write down the answers.

1. Take 10 minutes to list your values - what really matters to you as a person? How do you like to feel? What else is important to you?

2. From this list, what are your top 3 values?

3. Why is each value important to you?

4. How well are you currently honouring or expressing these values?

5. What is stopping you from living these values?

6. If you were to honour your top 3 values 100% of the time, what would be different?

7. How do these values fit in with your goals?

Call me today to discuss your values in more detail and how they support your goals, or to ask me any questions about life coaching. I look forward to hearing from you.

 


Quote of the month
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"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us". - Orison Swett Marden

 



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