The difficult question

Do you know what your personal values ​​are? You see how much time you will need to answer this question, the question seems straightforward and easy for some, while for many people needs deep thinking to know the system of personal values ​​that they embrace, and in all cases the system of values ​​is within us and rooted in our depths, the missing side is its knowledge and awareness of it, what is meant The set of personal values, and what is the benefit of knowing them? Can human values ​​change with changing circumstances, age or any other factors?

Personal values ​​are the most important things for a person. In order to get to know the nature of our values, we can simply ask ourselves why we made a particular decision and preferred one alternative over another. What is the motive behind this? For example, do you prefer to work as an employee or do you have your own business? There are reasons for choosing a job and another for choosing self-employment, and both options have its advantages and disadvantages, so why do we accept the defects of one alternative from the other or prefer the advantages of one alternative to the other? Some choose the job because it generates a steady income and does not carry with it many problems or fluctuations, it means stability, and therefore stability is the important value here, while freelance involves risks and market fluctuations, and therefore adventure in itself is a value for those who choose freelance. Or it may be freedom. The entrepreneur can decide the number of hours of work and how to spend them, or choose with whom to deal or participate other than the job. Some may reject a great job or an excellent opportunity because it will keep him away from his family and therefore the family has the most important value, and some may choose the opportunity because it generates income and achieve social worthiness, and therefore his image with society and his financial position are the most important value.

There are an infinite number of values ​​such as honesty, integrity, peace of mind, social prestige, love, money, family, adventure, excellence, giving, respect, fame, curiosity, altruism, success, ambition, stability and the list is long, and even easy to identify Values ​​You can simply write the top 10 values ​​for you, then consider each one and compare it to another to see which one is most important to you, then put it on top of the list, so that you rank your values ​​in priority. It is very important to know our values ​​because they are the filter through which the decisions we make pass, and in order to avoid living in suffering, the decisions that we make must be compatible with the values ​​we adopt, do the values ​​change? Yes, it can change when a person undergoes a profound and profound experience that fundamentally affects his conscience.

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