Simplify your life {Week 2: Define your Personal Values}

This week's challenge is to look at your values. Those values that shake you to your core and you don't change for anyone!!! Deb gave us a great list of value words to use as inspiration, we could use these or any other words that work for us. I just "tried" to add a link to those words (I hope it worked!!!)

I looked these words soooooo many times!!! The first time I looked at them and thought as Mrs Running In Heels the teacher not as me the WHOLE person. Part of this year's is to get me out of ALWAYS being teacher mode (Carlotta I can see you nodding your head at me ehehehe - Yes I have super powers and I see you through your computer!!!!) Lucky I recognized this was the way I was thinking so put the iPad away for the day.

I kept thinking about these words for a few days then I saw a post on Facebook from Deb's guest blogger Kirri White. She was talking about how values and goals are different!!! That was where the light bulb went on. I was getting the two mixed up and making myself confused!!!

I took the list out again and started writing down my thoughts in my SYL12 notebook. I wrote down all the words that spoke to me - that was a list of 20!!! However as I was writing I didn't realize I was marking words as I wrote. I marked words that were really powerful. Once the list was done I went and made a cuppa and looked over the words again. There were a few that kept jumping out at me - one in particular and it wasn't one I was expecting!!!!

After enjoying my cuppa and moment of quiet time as Miss L is sound asleep!!! I divided the page in 2 and wrote 2 headings - Goals / Values. This helped me really get to my core values! It also helped realise some goals I want to achieve this year!!!

Here is my list of GOALS
1. Balance - this is my number one goal for 2012. I need to get the life, work, me balance!!
2. Growth - SYL12!!!!!
3. Spontaneous - I have lost this over the years and it's time to get it back!!!
4. Patience - I'm great at this at work but suck at it everywhere else in my life.
5. Positivity - I think I'm pretty good at this but when things are busy and if I'm around negative people I can slip into their ways.
6. Inspire - if i can make a positive change in one person then I've achieved my goal!!!

Now my VALUES
1. Love / Family - number one all the way!!!!
2. Health - it's so important. The last 2 years have really shown me how much I value health!
3. Authenticity - I could not get value out of my head, it kept speaking to me especially whe. I was thinking about the values I want Miss L to learn in life.
4. Listen - not everyone can do this well but when you can WOW the world can change when we listen.
5. Learning - try to learn just one thing new everyday and don't be afraid to do so!!!
6. Imagination - we loose this as we get older. I love Miss L's imagination and I don't want her to loose that.

So thoughts?????

MarIlyn Monroe - "give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world!"

Until next time
Xox