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February 3, 2016 - Issue #28
Honoring Your Values Is Essential To Working Happy
“ Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In coaching, values are what make up the essential nature of you. Honoring your values helps you avoid what we call the tyranny of the shoulds – that is, what others outside of yourself, or organizations you work in, tell you that you should be doing.
 What are your values? What are the things that make up the essence of you? Finding your values is a process of discovery. Search within to find what is most important to you. Look at your life and work as they are today. What does the way you live your life say about what your values are? Take a moment to think about three of your top values. Are you honoring these three values as you work?
As you honor your values, you are being true to yourself. As you know your values, you know yourself. Knowing yourself leads to many things – the ability to make choices that honor who you are, the opportunity to pass your values on to others and clarity in how you see the world. Honoring your values leads you to a life and work of your own making. With this, comes self-knowledge, and peace. What better way to work happy?
Email me if you'd like to go further with this. I’m happy to help you get started!
photo: Alexas_Fotos, pixabay.com
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We love answering your questions on your journey to working happy!
Q: I have experienced a lot of disappointments in my work and career over the past year. I know resilience is a desirable character trait, but I am getting worn down by it all. I need some movement, positive feedback and good news for a change. Do you have any advice on this, Ann?
A: There are a lot of platitudes about not letting life get you down, but the reality is that sometimes we go through hard stretches that are difficult to bear. How can you make it through these stretches? I think the first thing is to focus on yourself, not only on what is happening around and to you. During hard times, you need a wellspring within to draw from. You can create that wellspring by nurturing yourself, making time for positive reflection, giving yourself what you need to thrive and acknowledging that a lot is being asked of you now.
I would also create some diversions – activities that allow you to be productive and creative outside of your work. This will remind you of all you have to offer. Lastly, I would carefully examine the disappointments you are experiencing and identify a few things you can do to turn them around for the future. It may be hard to see right now, but the gift of your resilience can be a wiser and more successful you. Don’t underestimate the strength and courage you are cultivating now. Good luck and wishing you many good times ahead.
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- Actively nurture a dream you have this month.
- Pay attention to the current state of your career. See my blog post, Fading.
- Negative people drain your energy. Best to stay away from them.
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Wasting Time
Have you been wasting time at work? That’s a sure way to reduce your productivity. Click here for my column, Wasted Time.
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“Ann is talented at getting to the heart of issues, consistently coming up with creative and excellent suggestions. There is no one else who comes close to Ann in having the talent necessary for personal and professional life coaching.”
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 Ann is a career and new directions coach whose passion is supporting people as they create the life they want to live and working in organizations to increase managers’ skills and self-confidence. Ann’s journey has taken her from a childhood in New York City, to an environmental career working for government in Washington DC and New York City, working in the private sector and founding her own business in Los Angeles. Subsequently, Ann embarked on a second career as a coach and now lives in the High Mojave Desert of southern California, where she continues her coaching and is inspired every day by the solitude, beauty and silence of the desert and mountains that surround her.
Ann is the author of four books: Chrysalis: Personal Transformation From The Inside Out, Power Stories, Leadership On Trial and Coaching Corner Volume 1. Visit her at AnnVanino.com.
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