Set Goals That Honor Your Real Values
I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Today I'll be asking you to look inside of…
Start with the real problem
I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Today I'll be asking you to look inside of yourself a little bit, do some self-evaluation on what matters most to you in this life, what is your value system, what do you care about the most?
Because it turns out that in order to be successful, the goals that you set, the things that you strive for, must be consistent with your core values to truly be of benefit to your life.
Why the pattern keeps repeating
it's almost like he was glad he had cancer because he was going to use that as an opportunity to show how to stay positive and focused and work hard and defeat the problem. He does have to take a lot of chemotherapy, which I'll talk to you more about in a minute.
But overall, he made it through two atrocious years car accident, cancer diagnosis, and yet he always had this optimistic outlook.
A better way to respond
So he said, I met with a friend at his house one night, and I told that friend, look, I can't control the effects of chemo brain, but is it possible that there's something under my control that I have been doing that has been lending to this overall feeling and the challenges of this year? And so I want to explain to you very quickly what he did because you're going to be asked to do it as well.
His buddy pulled out a whiteboard right there in the living room, and he said, Hal, I want you to tell me what are your three highest values, the things about you that matter more in this life than everything else.
Put it into practice
I had to love myself by saying no to what people around me probably think I should be treasuring most. This is about me and my relationship with God and family, not theirs.
So as I've set these goals for the year, just like we talked about in previous episodes, I have a huge smile on my face right now because I believe that everything that I have laid out is most vital to pursue, will build a love-based connection to God like I've not had before, will help my family and the relationships in my family become peace and joy-based, and yet still third in line, still will allow for the ability to encourage people outside of that circle that God has allowed me to know in this life.
Take the idea with you.
- 01Where does the central idea of “Set Goals That Honor Your Real Values” show up most clearly in my life right now?
- 02What does this episode call me to believe, stop, start, or handle differently?
- 03What is one specific action I can take today instead of merely agreeing with the idea?
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This article was adapted from Honoring Your Values. Continue with the podcast for the original teaching in Kris’s voice.
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