You see a
woman with child standing in a train or bus and you get up to offer your seat
to her or you looked the other way?
You see a
blind person or old man trying to cross a busy street and you help him to do
so or you acted as if you haven't seen him?
You see a
girl being harassed by some goons and you jump to help her or thought why get
into trouble for some unknown person?
You are at unmanned traffic signal and still don’t jump it or look sideways and speed up
your car?
What made you take these actions ?
Why?
What did you
choose?
Dig deep and
you will see a pattern in your behavior.You will see your actions are somewhere
driven and fueled by something internal.
These are
nothing but your Values which make you act in a particular way.In case you don’t act according to values you will
either fail or will not enjoy the success of the outcome.
The values
comes from our family,society,neighborhood,education system and the
information fed into us from the moment we take birth.
In order to
build a successful life the Values act like the foundations.
But the
irony is most of us, though want to build a successful life which you can compare
with a tall building but are unaware of our values which is the
foundation.
Can you build a tall building without laying a strong foundation?
If no then
why do you do so in the tower called Life?
Knowing
Values is like knowing yourself.
To do this
observe,monitor and write down your actions and behavior so that understand the
pattern to decipher the values on which your life is built.
Other way is
to understand the behavior and actions of your role models and try to identify
on what values you are similar.
On doing
this you will come out some values which are helping you and some need to
discarded.
For example
one of the values in our life that only hard
work pays.In order to achieve anything you will slog and burn
the midnight oil or you walk miles to accomplish the same.However smart work
also support you in getting your work done.Your value of “hard work” will chain you to some unwanted routine and will make you lose future opportunity. It
can be better to discard such value.But I am not proposing that hard work is
not a good value.I am only saying if you can work smartly why do you need to
toil like an ox.
Take your
Values seriously for they are your life’s foundation.
Next time
when you bribe a government clerk to get your work done ask yourself if this
value is good or bad for your success in life.
Next time
you talk ill about someone ,ask yourself….?
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