A life of well-being, meaning and purpose.
Continue reading “How to Use Your Values as a Compass”When you use your values as a compass, your life is aligned with your Valid Values, the principles you have chosen deliberately. Then you experience something powerful, a quiet sense that your life fits.
The foundation for an Excelerated Life™ begins with three “bricks”. Excelerated Acceptance™ allows us to “get real” by identifying and accepting the things we struggle with. Using Excelerated Response™, we address the things we can change. And with the practice of Excelerated Values™, we define our principles and standards of behavior and identify what is important in life. It starts with Values.
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Continue reading “Why Values Matter”By defining and living your values, you’re not just creating a life of intention — you’re laying the groundwork for a life that aligns with your highest potential and deepest purpose. You are like a train, firmly on track, moving inexorably toward your destination. That’s why values matter!
Continue reading “Get On Solid Ground: Building a Strong Foundation for an Excelerated Life™”When you try to create your life on a shaky foundation, you risk stagnation – getting stuck in place, making no progress; burnout – trying to do too much with too little; and frustration – feeling your lack of progress and taking it out on your loved ones or yourself. However, the practices that get you on solid ground free up energy, time, and other resources so you can focus on growth and self-actualization. You are going deep so you can build high.
When you align your strengths with your values, you create a roadmap for living authentically, with purpose and fulfillment. You are better able to navigate challenges because you have a clear compass to guide you in tough situations.
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Continue reading “Why You Need a Strong Foundation of Values”The Excelerated Life™ is about making proactive choices every day that bring you closer to your authentic self. Knowing and acting from your values means you are living an authentic life. Defining your Valid Values and choosing actions based on them and not based on how you feel helps you start with a strong foundation of values.
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Understanding the relationship between values and principles is essential for living a purposeful and fulfilling life. By aligning our actions with our values and choosing principles that reflect what is important to us, we can navigate life’s challenges with clarity, integrity, and resilience.
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Continue reading “Values Matter”Are you letting your values matter? Are you consistently honoring your core beliefs and living in alignment with the things that matter most? You are not living your values for yourself only. There is a ripple effect that moves and expands your actions such that they can have a far-reaching impact, more than you may ever know. That’s a way you make our world a better place.
When your life is in congruence with your “valid values” — the principles you deem as important and desirable — you feel in harmony and balanced. It’s a good idea to check in from time to time to see that you are living your values, whatever they may be.
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Continue reading “Know Your Values”For your Valid Values to be “valuable”, you have to put them to use. The key to living a richer and more meaningful isn’t found outside of yourself. The key is in living your values.