Uncover Your Values and Learn to Live by Them
Hours per week: 2-3 hours/week
Duration: 2 weeks
This 4-module course embarks on a transformative journey to uncover your personal values and discover how they can shape your life. Understanding your personal values is essential for long-term satisfaction and fulfillment. That's why this course is dedicated to helping you peel back the layers of your life, uncover your guiding compass and ultimately give you set of values that will increase your values-life alignment.
In this course, you'll learn about:
The step-by-step process to uncovering your core values, increasing your self-awareness and creating a foundation for living a more intentional and fulfilled life
Your level of satisfaction in all areas of your life and how you can achieve more alignment in life and work
Why your personal values should align with your workplace's corporate values
How well you really know yourself and the transformative effects of having a genuine sense of self
This course perfectly compliments The Integrated Life: 5 Weeks to More Enjoyable Work, Authentic Living, and a Happier You, which is a course all about helping you create your own personal definition of meaningful work by evaluating your strengths, fears, desires and the lifestyle of your dreams.
Whether it’s purposeful or not, we all have values that are driving the decisions we make and the actions we take each day. It’s only natural that what is most important to us will determine our focus, our priorities, and ultimately how we choose to live our lives. In the first module of this course, we’ll discuss what values are and what it means to ‘discover’ the values that already exist within us. We’ll dive into some initial exercises to get you thinking about what your values may be and how they relate to your overall happiness in different aspects of your life.
If you’re taking this course then you already understand that there is at least some benefit to knowing your values. Whether you’re looking to understand yourself better, make decisions more easily, increase your motivation, improve your relationships, or just live a happier, more purposeful life, your values can support you with each of these aspirations. In this module, we’ll dive into these benefits in greater detail and explore what it really means to know yourself and what you value. We’ll also touch on the benefit of aligning your values with your work or company and how in doing so can lead to greater satisfaction in your career and your life.
When you know your values, you can be more authentic in your work, relationships and decisions, which leads to greater satisfaction and well-being in your life. In this module, we’ll get into the real work of discovering your values through a series of building exercises. We’ll look at the peaks and valleys of your life so far to uncover what these key experiences tell you about your core values. We’ll then look for common themes among your discoveries and further rank and define the values words you come up with. By the end of this module, you’ll have a clear sense of what your values are and what upholding each of them looks like for you personally.
The real benefit of knowing your values comes when you can use them to create a life that reflects who you truly are. When we know why we do the things we do, we feel more in control of our lives and are more motivated to make positive changes that will bring us more joy and fulfillment. Each year, author James Clear conducts what he calls an Integrity Report to evaluate how well his core values are driving his life and business. How will you work toward this kind of values alignment in your own life? In the final module of this course, we’ll look at opportunities for improvement in your Life Pie from Module 1 and determine some actionable priorities to help you live a more purposeful, values-driven life going forward.