There are many people who do not know what is important to them. They just grapple in dark lane of life, waffle on many issues without deciding or taking any stand on them. But if we want deepest fulfillment of life then we have to decide many things and do what is important to us in this life. However we never decide to take action and have no clear idea as to how to take action. We differ to take action and or we have tough time to make decision about that. Why? Because all decisions making comes down to value clarification. We are never clear about what is important to us. Decision making becomes kind of torture. But this is not true for those who have clear idea of their highest principles of their lives. Values are like personal compass which guides our lives through all kind of hazards and perils.
Recognization and power comes to those who submerge their action with their philosophies. Those who have grasp over their own values and live by them; they are admired and respected universally. Every human being, belonging to what ever culture is embodied with some integrity and value which change according to right or wrong perceptions we bring in. They continually change depending upon the impact of circumstances and situations experienced by him. Also there is always a clash between personal values and universal values. Every time a value is born, human existence takes on a new meaning. We must realize that direction of our lives is controlled by magnetic pull of our values. They are force within us consistently leading us to make decisions that create our direction and destiny.
We have to understand ourselves before we understand values. Values are something that we hold dear. Those that we hold dear are called individual life values and the one that are followed by religions, nations, communities, cultures, organizations and companies universally are called universal life values. It is fact that within a nation there is constant shift going on within the values of culture as a whole. We have to learn from this that in our personal and professional lives, we have to be clear about what is important in our lives and we have to live by those values no matter what happens. This is possible only when we know what our values are. There are two types of values. One is called “end” and another is called “means”. For some family is value which is an end and for some money is value which is called means. But actually it is just an emotional state of mind which we desire to experience continuously in our lives.
Many people are not able to differentiate between ends and means and hence they experience pain in their lives. They are so busy pursuing mean values; they overlook their end values. They achieve means but miss out on end values thus living unfulfilled life. The end values are those that fulfill and make our lives rich and rewarding.
There are many human values but some core values through which we derive pleasure are
Abundance, Comfort, Commitment, Compassion, Cooperation, Fairness, Faith, Family, Fidelity, Freedom, Gratitude, Happiness, Health, Honesty, Hygiene, Impartiality, Integrity, Love, Loyalty, Peace, Philanthropy, Power, Purity, Respect, Sacrifice, Sharing, Success, Simplicity, Spirituality, Sympathy, Teamwork, Trust, Truth, Wealth, Wisdom.
Some of the values may be part of us and some may not be. There are some which are not list here. Any way, it is probably that we value some of them more than others and try to achieve it. There is also hierarchy to these values as they are more important then others depending our emotional state of mind. Remember these values are part of our character hence we should be more concerned about our character then our reputation because our character is what we really are and reputation is merely what others think we are.
Whatever our values, they affect direction of life. We have to learn that some values give us pleasure than others. What makes difference is to get the sense of control over them as controlling them brings control over decision making process. It helps draw focus on all our actions. It shapes with whom we will have relationships and what we will do within the relationship and how we will live with them. Values bring consistency in our relationship.
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