#purposefullife

Introduction

In the journey of self-discovery and personal growth, understanding and living by your core values is akin to having a reliable compass. It guides your decisions, shapes your relationships, and ultimately leads you towards a life that feels authentic and purposeful. This article is a guide to help you identify and define your core values, your North Star in the sea of life's choices.

Understanding Core Values

What Are Core Values?

Core values are the fundamental beliefs and principles that are most important to you. They represent the essence of who you are, what you stand for, and what you prioritize in life. These values serve as a guiding force, influencing your behavior, decisions, and relationships.

The Significance of Identifying Core Values

Identifying your core values provides a solid foundation for living authentically and in alignment with your true self. It empowers you to make choices that resonate with your deepest desires and aspirations. When you live in harmony with your core values, you experience a greater sense of fulfillment, purpose, and inner peace.

The Process of Identifying Core Values

Self-Reflection and Introspection

Set Aside Quiet Time: Find a peaceful environment where you can reflect without distractions. This could be a corner in your home, a quiet park, or a cozy café.

Journaling: Begin by writing down experiences, moments, and interactions in your life that have deeply resonated with you. These can be positive experiences that made you feel truly alive or moments of conflict that revealed what truly matters to you.

Identify Peak Moments: Recognize the times when you felt most fulfilled, satisfied, and authentic. These instances often provide valuable insights into your core values.

Analyze Your Role Models: Think about the people you admire most. Consider the qualities or values in them that you find most inspiring.

Prioritize Your List: Review your reflections and identify recurring themes. From these, begin to prioritize the values that resonate with you the most.

Defining Your Core Values

Narrowing Down Your List

Select Your Top Values: Choose the values that stand out as the most important to you. Aim for a concise list that resonates deeply.

Clarify Each Value: Take time to define what each value means to you personally. How do you embody this value in your daily life?

Write a Personal Statement: Craft a brief statement for each core value. This could be a sentence that encapsulates how you intend to live by this value.

Create a Visual Reminder: Design a visual representation of your core values. This could be a vision board, a piece of artwork, or a screensaver on your device

Living by Your Core Values

Integrating Values into Daily Life

Make Conscious Decisions: When faced with choices, consider how they align with your core values. This awareness will guide you towards decisions that resonate with your true self.

Set Goals in Alignment with Values: Establish personal and professional goals that are rooted in your core values. This ensures that your pursuits are meaningful and purposeful.

Communicate Your Values: Share your core values with close friends and family. This fosters deeper connections and allows others to understand what truly matters to you.

Regular Reflection and Realignment: Periodically revisit your core values. As you grow and evolve, your values may also shift. Reflect on whether they still accurately represent your true north.

Conclusion: Guided by Your North Star

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Is this WHAT you think?

Let’s just talk a little about how life flows. How things happen? I mean we have lost the CLARITY or perhaps never gained it altogether. Clarity? Clarity of what we want to do with our life? Clarity of the purpose that drives us forward? But we are anyway driving forward.

But, is the direction the one you actually wanted? Is the direction leading you toward the desirable purpose? Clarity plays that role – it dusts off your vision and renders you the sight of something that your soul craves for. Your soul! Not what others want you to see! Not what circumstances, or let me say it this way – so called circumstances make you see. So, how life flows?

You are energy. You are alive. You are being that is special, in the sense that you are blessed with unlimited power. The power? I don’t have bloody bucks to compete in this fast pacing world; what the hell with power?

I am not talking about the power that your parents could have given you. Neither is it the one that your schooling, a degree or a job could have blessed you with. No matter you are a 15-year-old struggling hard to put together some meaning out of life or a 60-year-old measuring what accomplishments you have made so far. The power has your back.....

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It is the power of designing your life, the way you want. It is the power that allows you to make choices and create a journey that will take you anywhere that your mind can perceive. It is the power that is beyond money, your appearance, your age, your physical strength, your circumstances - it is beyond everything.

Look back at your life. Isn’t your journey the manifestation of your choices? Your choices – yeah! Good choices and bad choices. I am sure the good things showed up out of your good choices. And, the things, the events, the situations which have been bitter, unhappy and wrong are the outcome of the not-so-well-thought choices. “Life is what you make it”. And the life could be one hundred years for you but it could also be thirty years for you. So, if you are above thirty, thank enough!  I wish a long life for you – please don’t misconstrue me. But think, don’t we keep waiting for the unseen, the non-experienced, the tomorrow, the next stage, the next age – call it whatever you want to call it. Somehow, we are sure that we are going to exist for next thousand years. I am kidding J! And our idea of life is somehow restricted to that which is yet to happen – the future. Life, for all of us, means the time which is yet to be experienced – not the time what we are presently experiencing.

It’s so called “someday” of our future life – but not the TODAY. And oops - how can I forget? It is also some days that had already gone – the past – that you wish to live again – but not the TODAY.

Here when clarity is needed. A clarity that helps you to recognize the power of NOW! It unleashes the perception that life is not about thirty, one hundred or thousand years of existence. It is rather about living everyday fulfilling your purpose, big or small. The moment you lose clarity, you lose purpose and you lose the power. Because you are an energy, everything you perceive, you think, you do is interconnected.

Creating your day consciously, designing it purposefully is life. Repeating this process everyday is life. Using the power to create whatever that gives you joy and satisfaction throughout a day, a week, a fortnight, a month, a year, a decade, and a lifetime is worthy of your existence.

Don’t forget your wants may be ones that will create miracles, happiness and high vibrations around you. But sometimes losing the control and power, it could changes it ones that will manifest the opposite – pain, misery, downfall, guilt, regret, sorrow, stress, disease, anxiety, and low vibration.

Let your energy go to the GOOD and GREAT. Let your attention be a conscious effort for whatever you think and do.

So that, when at any point, you look back at your life, you feel good about thinking “Life is what you make it”.