Maximizing Your Productivity by Honoring Your Values and Life Rules
When we violate the life rules based upon our value system, frustration, anger and ineffective communication results. When we honor our values, life works.
Being productive is a natural state that comes from people doing what they enjoy and honoring their most important values. Productivity and having fun are closely related.
The corollary is most often true as well. When people are not having fun, they are not honoring their values and their productivity decreases. Another way to say this is "Do what you love and the money will follow."
By following your passions, you maximize your most productive state of mind. Doing what you love is the best way to live your core values. Developing clarity on exactly what your life rules are and which values must be honored for your life to work optimally will result in maximizing your personal power.
Values make up the core of who we are. When we live our lives in sync with our values, we function at our highest level. When we fail to honor these essential values, we become angry and our communication shuts down.
Some examples of values are:
- Adventure
- Creativity
- Recognition
- Security
- Joy
- Belonging
- Excitement
- Peace
- Intimacy
- Love
- Spirituality
- Freedom
- Happiness
- Communication
- Integrity
- Power
- Safety
- And there are many more.
Your values will continually evolve as you do. When you focus on living from your values, they become honored and satisfied. This allows you to then shift your focus to other evolving values. The key to a life that is satisfying and productive is to identify your key values and make sure they are being honored. Until your life and values are in alignment, life will look like an uphill struggle.
Some examples of life rules that are tied to values are:
- If I feel I belong, I can accomplish most anything.
- To be my best, there must be open communication.
- When I can contribute to others, I maximize my aliveness.
- To function at my highest potential, I need to express my creativity.
- Without the freedom to do as I choose, life is not worth living.
- When I am happy, I am powerful.
- My dealings with others must be based on integrity if I am to accomplish anything worthwhile.
- When I am at peace, I achieve great accomplishments.
- When I access my personal power, I concentrate on contributing to others and myself.
- When I feel safe and secure, I have the confidence to accomplish any task.
When your core values and life rules are honored you step into your power to function at your highest level. When you are not fully aware of your life rules, you may put yourself in situations where they can be easily violated.
A common source of conflict between people is lack of familiarity with the other’s life rules. Resolving conflicting attitudes is facilitated by educating others about what your life rules are and how they are to interact with you. When you train others how to treat you by clearly communicating what is important to you and making any appropriate requests, you will have accessed more of your personal power. Likewise, the better you understand what values and life rules are most important to others, the better you will be able to work powerfully with them.
Honoring Your Values and Living In Harmony With Your Life Rules
1) List at least 4 of your most important values.
2) Which are being fully honored and which are not?
3) What life rules are associated with each one and to what degree are they being honored?
4) How has not honoring these values and life rules affected your happiness and productivity?
5) What specific actions will you take to honor any that are not respected now? By when will you take them?
About Dr. Joe Rubino
Dr. Joe Rubino is an internationally acclaimed trainer, author, success coach and the CEO of The Center For Personal Reinvention, an organization that provides personal and group coaching as well as productivity and leadership development courses. He was featured on the cover of Success Magazine and in the cover story, We Create Millionaires, because of his ability to champion others to succeed. Joe is the author of the international best sellers, Secrets of Building a Million Dollar Network Marketing Organization from a Guy Who's Been There, Done That and Shows You How To Do It Too, The Magic Lantern: A Fable about Leadership, Personal Excellence, and Empowerment, The Power To Succeed: 30 Principles For Maximizing Your Personal Effectiveness, The Power To Succeed: More Principles For Powerful Living, Book II, Restore Your Magnificence: A Life-Change Guide to Reclaiming Your Self-Esteem and the6 audio cassette series and workbook entitled 10 Weeks to Network Marketing Success. For information about The Center for Personal Reinvention and its services or to order any of Dr. Rubino’s books or tapes, visit http://www.CenterForPersonalReinvention.com.To contact Dr. Joe about the possibility of hiring him as your personal success coach, email: DrJRubino@email.com or call 888-821-3135.
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