One of the keys to knowing yourself is to understand your hierarchy of values. This useful information helps you really know what is important to you, or even better, helps you tell other people what is really important to you. True leaders don’t think in terms of what ‘should’ be significant based on culture or upbringing, but what ‘is’ actually essential and fulfilling. Although it is easy to understand your own hierarchy of values, and that of other people, most people have no idea what’s really important to them.
Being consciously aware of your worldview, belief system, and values simplifies many aspects of your life. You understand your behaviour better, become a more integrated person and you can comfortably expand your perspective, and you even find it easier to appreciate and accept other people, simply by knowing what’s important to you.
If you truly know yourself, your purpose and mission becomes less puzzling, less variable and more stable. That’s because a large part of your purpose is revealed in your hierarchy of values. Understanding your own hierarchy of values, and those of others, helps you create caring, fulfilling, long lasting relationships. It helps you to communicate in a way that links your ideals and values with others’. This, in turn, helps you develop, maintain and enrich your relationships.
We each have a unique set, or hierarchy, of values. Your core beliefs (unfortunately also including your limiting beliefs) and values (and specifically their ranking) influence how you perceive and how you act in your world, business, home, community, etc. Therefore, they determine the results you achieve in life, your behaviour, and ultimately, the course of your life. Your beliefs and values will also express themselves in all the areas of your life: spiritual, vocational, mental, familial, financial, social, and physical.
It happens that people allow fears, or limiting beliefs, to keep them from living according to their true hierarchy of values. This causes stress, emptiness and a general sense of lacking. Let’s briefly focus on fear because it can be so limiting. We all fear something at some point in our lives. There are many ways to define fear, but one approach is that fear as an emotion’s main task is to protect us and keep us alive. Fear does an excellent job of keeping us alive, but can do us a lot of harm if not properly managed. As noble as this function is it is a subtle enemy. Fears sometimes remain hidden in the subconscious where they remain hidden and can be very difficult to eliminate.
According to Napoleon Hill there are six basic fears, with some combination, that every human suffers at some time or another. The first six are self-created whereas the last, not a basic fear, is inherited from other people:
Worry, on the other hand, is a state of mind based upon fear. It is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision, i.e. the indecision to deal with the fears. Because it is a state of mind you can control it (because you choose to control your mind). This indecision creates anxiousness and constant anxiousness leads to worry. Therefore, the six basic fears become translated into a state of worry through this indecision. I might spend some time dealing with fear in a future post. I return to conclude the discussion on identifying your hierarchy of values.
You can identify the priority of your value system by answering the following simple questions:
Be extraordinary!
Myles
Being consciously aware of your worldview, belief system, and values simplifies many aspects of your life. You understand your behaviour better, become a more integrated person and you can comfortably expand your perspective, and you even find it easier to appreciate and accept other people, simply by knowing what’s important to you.
If you truly know yourself, your purpose and mission becomes less puzzling, less variable and more stable. That’s because a large part of your purpose is revealed in your hierarchy of values. Understanding your own hierarchy of values, and those of others, helps you create caring, fulfilling, long lasting relationships. It helps you to communicate in a way that links your ideals and values with others’. This, in turn, helps you develop, maintain and enrich your relationships.
We each have a unique set, or hierarchy, of values. Your core beliefs (unfortunately also including your limiting beliefs) and values (and specifically their ranking) influence how you perceive and how you act in your world, business, home, community, etc. Therefore, they determine the results you achieve in life, your behaviour, and ultimately, the course of your life. Your beliefs and values will also express themselves in all the areas of your life: spiritual, vocational, mental, familial, financial, social, and physical.
It happens that people allow fears, or limiting beliefs, to keep them from living according to their true hierarchy of values. This causes stress, emptiness and a general sense of lacking. Let’s briefly focus on fear because it can be so limiting. We all fear something at some point in our lives. There are many ways to define fear, but one approach is that fear as an emotion’s main task is to protect us and keep us alive. Fear does an excellent job of keeping us alive, but can do us a lot of harm if not properly managed. As noble as this function is it is a subtle enemy. Fears sometimes remain hidden in the subconscious where they remain hidden and can be very difficult to eliminate.
According to Napoleon Hill there are six basic fears, with some combination, that every human suffers at some time or another. The first six are self-created whereas the last, not a basic fear, is inherited from other people:
- Fear of loss of money or poverty
- Fear of shame and criticism
- Fear of illness and loss of life quality and function
- Fear of loss of love or someone
- Fear of old age
- Fear of death
- Fear created by negative influence from other people
Worry, on the other hand, is a state of mind based upon fear. It is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision, i.e. the indecision to deal with the fears. Because it is a state of mind you can control it (because you choose to control your mind). This indecision creates anxiousness and constant anxiousness leads to worry. Therefore, the six basic fears become translated into a state of worry through this indecision. I might spend some time dealing with fear in a future post. I return to conclude the discussion on identifying your hierarchy of values.
You can identify the priority of your value system by answering the following simple questions:
- How do you fill your space?
- How do you spend your time?
- How do you spend your energy?
- How do you spend your money?
- Where are you most organised?
- Where are you most disciplined?
- What do you think about?
- What do you visualize?
- What do you talk to yourself about?
- What to you speak about with others?
- What do you react to?
- Where are you willing to ensure pain to succeed?
Be extraordinary!
Myles
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