Guest Post from Sheryl Siler
Are your core values sabotaging your own efforts?
It’s kind of an interesting question? Do you shout an automatic, “Of course not?” Or are you questioning it? Are you wondering what a core value is?
I feel as if in asking this question to you that I am somehow paying it forward. I had participated in a workshop and within it I did an exercise that really made me think about and write down those things that were important to me. Not just the surface but way down to the core. That is what a core value is.
If you are signed up for the blog tour updates, you have access to a free printable journaling sheeting for you to start listing out what is important to you. A place to document what those things are that ring true to your heart. Take some time with this exploration mission.
Once you complete the mission ask yourself, “Are my core values interfering with my efforts and spoiling my attitude?”
Let me give you an example of what a potential sabotaging situation may be. One of my core values is being at home with my children schooling them. Since I know that, it is best that I choose things in my life and career that line up with that core value and not fight against it.
If I was presented a great job opportunity but that opportunity required me to constantly be travelling and leaving home and not being able to be there for my children, would that line up with what is important to me? Clearly that opportunity would go against the grain.
If I would choose to take it anyway, there is a chance my sub-conscious mind would do things to sabotage my performance in attempts to get me back in alignment with my core values.
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask,
“In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?”
Brian Tracy
If you are struggling in something, take a step back and analyze it. Are you being true to yourself and what is most important to you?
Don’t sabotage your own efforts.
This post is part of Sheryl’s Spring Forward blog tour for Overcoming Your Negativity, her new self-paced course which is a 21 day journey to positive thinking, a better attitude and a happier you. You can read other posts in this tour by going to her blog at GrowBloomInspire.com/tour. For more information on the self-paced course click here.
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Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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