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Exploring Your Values

Part of the Mindset Shift Series – designed to help you clarify your compass and live in alignment

🌱 How This Shifts Mindset

Instead of chasing external approval, you align with your internal compass. Clarity on values helps you move from uncertainty to conviction. When decisions are grounded in what matters most, confidence follows.

⏳ How This Builds Forward Momentum Over Time

Clear values reduce decision fatigue and increase resilience during uncertainty. Over time, values serve as anchors—helping you persist through challenges, adapt without losing direction, and experience deeper fulfillment.

🧪 The Science Behind It

Values act as internal motivators that guide behavior more reliably than external rewards. Clarity on values improves decision-making, increases resilience during stress, and fosters long-term well-being.

Citations:

- Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55(1), 68–78.

- Schwartz, S. H. (2012). An overview of the Schwartz theory of basic values. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1).

- Sheldon, K. M., & Elliot, A. J. (1999). Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: The self-concordance model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(3), 482–497.