Aligning Your Career with Your True Values
SUMMARY
Do you always feel like your plans for your life seem to go off track and everything is all about work? Do you feel the need to change who you truly are just to get ahead in your career?
When you do things in your life that are aligned with who you truly are, and what you truly value, things flow.
Give yourself permission to take some time, sit down, and figure out what your true values are.
TRANSCRIPT
Do you always feel like your plans for your life seem to go off track and everything is all about work?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation in the area of intention by helping you align your career with your values.
When you do things in your life that are aligned with who you truly are, and what you truly value, things flow. However, that's not the case in most situations with the people that I get to work with.
What tends to happen is people compartmentalise and say, "This is who I am outside of work, and this is who I am in my career." The problem with that is if those identities are different, then you're actually working against who you really are.
When you align them, you have a certainty and inner confidence in yourself — a conviction that you are doing what you are called to do. When you are congruent with who you truly are, you have inner peace, and from that inner peace comes greater productivity.
Personal values are those things that you believe are important to you, and they determine your priorities.
Your values become your personal GPS. They steer you in the direction that you want to go. When you go off track, you can sense that there's something not quite right.
Your values change over time. I remember years ago, all I wanted was a black 911 Porsche. I thought that if I had that Porsche, I would be successful. I don't want a Porsche anymore. Now, investing time with my grandkids and travelling takes priority.
Give yourself permission to take some time, sit down, and figure out what your true values are.
Well, that's it from me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue this conversation and start looking at your vision. I'll see you then.
