Success Tweet: Clarify your personal career values. You values are your anchor. They ground you. They center you. They keep you focused on what’s important.
Your personal career values are important for a number of reasons. They can help you determine the types of people with whom you want to spend your valuable time. They can help you determine which company you want to join. They can help you make decisions in ambiguous situations. This career success coach is a big believer in the power of personal values.
Here is what I value. These values guide my life. They ground me and center me. They keep me focused on what’s important.
Common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Nothing so astonishes men as common sense and plain dealing.” I agree. I help my career success coach clients figure out the common sense solution to creating the life and career success they want and deserve, and then to do the work it takes to apply their common sense.
Simplify the complex. I believe all too often people make things more complex than they really are. I help my career success coach clients simplify the complex, and develop and implement common sense solutions to their problems and issues.
Optimism. I believe optimism is essential for anyone to grow and flourish. I live by the words in The Optimist Creed. I share these words with my career success coach clients. If you would like a copy, go here: www.budbilanich.com/optimist.
Human potential. I believe we all can accomplish great things. I help my career success coach clients use applied common sense to achieve their full potential.
Value. My career success coach clients pay hard earned money for my services. I provide them with extraordinary value-added services in order to justify their faith in me.
Trust. My career success coach clients trust me. They openly discuss their hopes, fears, problems and opportunities with me. This trust is sacred. I will not violate it.
Individuality. All of my career success coach clients are unique individuals. I honor this uniqueness. I don’t sell one-size-fits-all coaching services. I am diligent about gaining a complete understanding of each individual’s unique needs as I begin working with him or her.
Hard work. There are no shortcuts. I am willing to put in the time and effort necessary to succeed. I share this message with my career success coach clients. I encourage them to be true to themselves by being diligent in pursuing their career success goals and dreams.
The Power of 1. One person can make a difference. I do the work I do, because I believe I can make a difference — in the lives of my career success coach clients, and in the world.
Those are my values. What are yours?
The common sense career success coach point here is simple. Successful people live their lives by a set of well defined personal values. They follow the advice in Tweet 17 in Success Tweets: “Clarify your personal values. Your values are your anchor. They ground you. They center you.” They keep you focused on what’s important. If you haven’t taken the time to clarify your personal values, you need to do so – the sooner the better. This is some of the best career advice I can give you. Clarifying your personal values will help you deal with the ambiguity and complexity the world throws at you.
Bud Bilanich is a motivational speaker, author and blogger who will help you create the life and career success you want and deserve.
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Values or Principles as I prefer to define them, due to their more proactive and bench markable nature, are also the critical foundation to a strong Personal Brand.
To have a strong personal brand it must be both clear and consistent. Your values and principles are the foundation that helps your brand be consistent so that people can “buy into” you as no one can align themselves with something that is constantly changing their values and principles.
I think our values are obvious when we are in a situation in which we do not compromise in. These situations will help us identify our values. My values are being honest, trust and definitely hardwork
That’s a nice set of values Bud. Sometimes, I find people have a hard time clarifying their values. They know they have them, but they get stuck when it comes to articulating them as you did. I often tell people to complete the following sentence, “I believe….” as it relates their work. It always seems to help get the dialog going when they are struggling to identify their values.
Anyone else have tips for clarifying their values?