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Yesterday I attended a personal development session called ‘Motivate ME’ run by Welland Enterprise. It was phenomenal as were the people on the course.

The biggest thing that I came away with was a better understanding of my values – what I believe to be of the greatest importance and of the highest priority in my life. Things like ove, health, happiness, opportunity, creativity, honesty etc. If you understand you main values you can use these to help understand a number of things:

• What really motivates you
• What motivates other people
• The solid foundation for your goals
• The best way to make decisions

My key values are freedom, contribution, people/relationships, well-being, fun, and development. By knowing these I can align myself with projects and partners that feed my need for these key values. I can use them to make decisions. If I have route a, b or c to take I can measure them against them fulfilling my values and choose the best route that matches my values. I can also use my values to help me set my goals and the direction I choose for my life. Using my values as a basis for all of these keeps me in balance and allows life to flow. The whole concept fits in with my life long learning approach.

The session was run by Lisa Spencer-Arnell who can help you figure out your values and does a lot of work on work, life balance.

Posted by Sara Brown, 18/03/2009