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YOUR VALUES
In my first book, How to Be Brilliant, I described values as being right up there with oxygen. Meaning if you get your values right life is easy; get them wrong and you’re in trouble.
Values are the classic subconsciously ‘learned behaviour’. We aren’t born with them, we rarely sit down and plan what they should be, we just acquire them. And that’s the danger.
Having a set of values that you ‘just picked up’ is fine if the people who are teaching you those values (by their behaviours) are positive role models. But what if they’re not? Or, even more dangerous, what if you think they are but they’re not?
Your values make you who you are
During a training programme, part of which taught attendees how to identify core values, ...
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