So all of this to say is that when you're in a situation where suddenly your values have changed for whatever reason
You will start to get a sort of nagging feeling that something's not quite right or something's not quite optimal in your current situation
Hey badasses, welcome back to badass careers
Which is the place to be for anyone who actually gives a shiz about their career and what they spend 40 plus hours per week
Doing with their time, I'm Rosie
I'm an online coach and founder of badass careers
which is all about helping people find more purpose and meaning in their careers and also helping them to learn their dream jobs and
Build up really successful side hustles and online businesses. So a boy. Oh boy
Are we getting deep this week. This week is all about peeling away the layers to uncover your core values.
They values so deep that they guide your beliefs your behavior your decision-making
Whether you know about it consciously or not
and of course the one of the most essential keys to career happiness because if you're not living in alignment with your values
You're probably gonna have a bit of a nagging feeling right that something's not quite right
You may not know exactly what it is, but it will definitely be there
so in this video
I'm gonna talk about three ways that you can find out what matters to you most what your core values
Are and also the causes that matter to you as well in the external world right? The kind of problems that you'd like to help
solve but just before jumping and I want to cover off what do I mean when I say values so values are
principles that represent your highest priorities and
Deeply held driving forces and beliefs they give your life meaning
And they allow you to persevere through adversity
I love that that resilience piece as well like though what keeps you going?
even when the going gets tough and it's a
really really important piece of the puzzle when it comes to figuring out what your career purpose is or what your why is
because your values right now will absolutely
Inform that and I covered this off in week 3 of the find my y course that I offer it's a free course
Completely dedicated to helping you figure out what your career purpose is and week three is all about your values
so I'll drop the link down below if you want to go further because they absolutely
Should be something that you build your next career move around and why is your next career move or not?
all your career moves as because although
Values are relatively stable over time. They can also change
I remember for me when I was working as a fortune 500 HR manager for the world's number one Beauty company
I was living in Paris
I was in a corporate role which required me to be, you know, incredibly driven pull long hours, but I absolutely loved it
I was in my element because my driving values at the time were very much around
Achievement and goal-setting and attaining goals and also around security as well
Now when I got married to a French guy, I realized that my values had shifted and my number one value there was freedom
I had to have the freedom to be able to work on my own schedule and to be able to come home to New Zealand
whenever I wanted if we were living in France and to be able to work for myself and travel and just be able to
Basically organize my work on my own time so that I could always have the best of both worlds
We could go back to France if we needed to go back to France or back to New Zealand and everywhere in between it became
Incredibly important for me. So I started to think to myself. How can I make this work?
And this is one of the reasons I founded Badass Careers
So all of this to say is that when you're in a situation where suddenly your values have changed for whatever reason
You will start to get a sort of nagging feeling that something is not quite right or something's not quite optimal in your current situation
If you're someone who's quite conflict avoider and you really don't value competition, for example
And you work in a highly competitive sales?
Environment, you know full of kpi's and comparisons and the team and all of that kind of stuff
You're probably not going to be happy there long term
That's probably not a sustainable option for you compared to someone whose major value is competition
So that's how it can play out as well likewise if something's changed in your life recently
just so you decided to become vegan because of
animal rights and you do find yourself working for for example a cosmetics company and
The way the laws work currently in China, is that to sell cosmetics and makeup?
Products and things like that on the Chinese market in China. You absolutely have to have them tested on animals
I don't think that you could be true to yourself and really be happy fully at work
They'll always be something that's kind of not feeling quite right if you're working for a company that has to do that
So ensure understanding your personal values are really the key to living a really authentic and happy life
So how do you know what your values are? Well, I'm gonna give you three options today
So the first option is that you can click the link below in my description and do my find my why career purpose course
week three is all about
Your values and I actually get you to do a value sorting exercise
And in that exercise you have a list of all of these words for which are designed to kind of provoke
You know
Reactions and relate to values and what you're going to do is kind of narrow them down and shortlist the words that mean the most
To you they represent something to you
And once you've selected these words that really resonate with you
What I get you to do is go back through the list and actually cross out the words that where they're actually really aspirational
And you'd love to be there and you would love to do that, but it's not actually true
It's not actually currently a part of your everyday life
So for example, you might say our sustainability is really important to me but in reality
You know that, you know, you're a bit disorganized you don't often even do recycling. You're late
You want to be more sustainable, but you know, it's not actually the reality for you today
so what you want to do is cross out anything that's not actually who you are today your current reality and the values that you're
genuinely living then What I get you to do is go through the list again and see if you could
organize them into sort of groups or themes and what you're going to do is add a label to
These themes that kind of sums up that group of words
if you will and these these groups these themes they actually become your
Top five values and if you're really struggling to get it down to five groups of five things five values
What you can do is sort of play them off against each other. So at the end of the day if push came to shove
Would I rather this or that and you sort of play them off together until you've sort of got your top five values?
And what I really recommend especially if you've used the words from my list is that you give those values your own definition
So for example if a value for you is freedom
What does that mean for you all means something different to every single person?
So then you not only identify your values, but you define them too
Now option two for figuring out your values is really for someone who definitely wants to go
Deeper and further and then to full-on sort of observation mode
so they're not just in the head thinking what are my values but they're actually
Seen in real life now
What I'd like you to do is actually keep a journal for two weeks and at the end of the day just jot down
things that were real high for you things that gave you a sense of joys things really
We're really fulfilling they made you proud
You really enjoyed either something that you did or you saw happen in your your environment that you thought was really cool
for example
maybe one of your colleagues was helping another colleague out and that really
Put a smile on your face, like knock down all these little positives on the other side
I also want you to start noting down the things that feel quite draining
And negative and just don't sit quite right with you
And what I'd like you to do is at the end of the two weeks go through and look for themes and look for patterns
And then I want you to start asking yourself
The five, why's so the five whys is when you ask yourself? Why five times to get to the bottom of something?
so for example, it's saying back in the corporate world and something that I sort of noticed is that I really
hate the fact that when there's a big presentation or a big bosses coming all the girls, especially and the guys but you know,
We have to get all dressed up put on loads of makeup
We're really high heels
you know in a particular industry and
Really dress up for the occasion and you have to put in so much effort until you hear make up what you're wearing
Because you know you're going to be judged on it. So, why does that bother me?
well
Because I like to be able to dress how I like and be comfortable at work and being able to dress more relaxed
You know, like jeans and sneakers and stuff
It makes me feel like I'm in a more like modern relaxed work environment, but why do I have that preference?
well
I think it's because I liked the hierarchy will actually take me seriously regardless of what I'm wearing and that is
What's in my brain and my ideas and that kind of thing that matters rather than how you look I mean
I think there's a belief in there that you should be able to do great work and be recognized for that without worrying about your
Looks obviously to some extent like, you know, when you have client-facing meetings and that kind of thing is completely different
But I just mean like internal meetings how you dress?
And so again, I'll ask myself why and I think it's because the way you dress for me seems really superficial
I don't like the idea of people getting judged on things like their
appearance and the politics that go with that and and the
Assumptions that people make about the way people look and I think it's because how can you link something?
Like appearance to performance. Like it just doesn't seem like a fair playing field to me. And so you never know
Why what's at the core of this? Why does this really matter to me?
well
I think that you should be rewarded based on merit I think merit is the only way you can truly have equal
opportunity in the workplace
and also I just prefer a much more relaxed work environment with this list politics and having to think about things like that and
Schmoozing to top managers and looking pretty for top managers just because you're going to present in front of them
Really did not float my boat
So that's something quite deep that I've uncovered about myself and I could take it even further and ask myself
Okay
Is it because I'm a Kiwi and New Zealanders are because you know
If we go around wearing jandals, once you're a casual i'm from a very casual laid-back country
So maybe that's how I like the workplace to look as well. So if you start digging
from something that seemed quite superficial like oh
You know
I roll I hate the fact that we have to get all dolled up for these big presentations
Once you start digging down you actually can cut uncover something quite deep
If you do the same for the things you really didn't like or things that didn't sit right with you
You'll also uncover some interesting values as well. Exercise three is to answer some really deep
Hard-hitting I guess questions about who you are and what matters to you and these are the kinds of questions
You can also find and in the Find My Why course
So if you're interested in that again
The link will be down in the description box below but just two examples would be what gets you fired up what justice infuriates you?
because these are these are the values about what you think the world needs what matters to you in the external world
So values aren't necessarily all about you as an individual either
Your values might very much be in relation to the way you connect with other people or connect with the world the second example
I have for you as a deep hard-hitting question would be with a big or small
What learning?
experience
Revelation or life lesson has shaped you in some way. So we've all had life experiences
We've all had pivotal moments and things that have really taught us something or forced us to learn something really quickly and it's always useful
Analyzing these to see if there are any core values or beliefs that you hold because of this experience
so guys
I hope that this has helped you to start thinking more about what your values really are and who you are as a person
Of course
this is just some food for thought and the
workbooks and the videos and
You know everything you need to take it one step further are in my find my why course if you really have your values in
Mind I would love to know yours down below in the comments. I'll get started
I'm gonna post down some of my
Core values down there as well and until the next video stay Badass and I'll see you then