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Do you need ‘values’ to have a fulfilling life?
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably taken enough online tests over the years to have a fairly good idea of what your top scoring values are.
You might even have upended and reorganised your entire life around them so that you can live in alignment with the blasted things.
What are your top values?
Maybe it’s things like connection, or honesty, or integrity.
Maybe you’re governed by purpose, by a set of behaviours, traits or principles which define you, guide you, and motivate you and everything you do.
Maybe not.
There’s a lot to be said for not having values —there is merit in the old adage ‘ignorance is bliss.’
Values sound fan-freaking-tastic on paper — in personality profiling questionnaires, job interviews, and describing your customer avatar.
But there is a huge difference between the values we say we hold, and the values which we actually hold.
I think this is where the secret to fulfilment lies.
Real value aren’t aspirational.
They describe you right now.
Values define who we are and what we do, when (and here’s the important bit) no…