Values that count

A good daily routine starts with a good impulse. After having a basic clarity of personal goals, we need to fine-tune those ones in the frame of the coming day. Still, there are many things that we can’t predict but leave that one to nature. Rather, try to predict your intended actions as a reflection of the most important values that are present in the flow of our life. To match the planned actions with the values it is needed to keep track of both. That doesn’t take big energy if strict control is made part of the daily routine. Rather than elaborating this small piece of the action as part of the constant habit, you can be positively addicted to it. While this piece of the can be the first event when you have a sense of how your plan works in real life. Consider that you have timely data about your inner compliance with your honest values. This data is nothing more just say yes or no to simple question whether you still believe in the goals being the majors drive of actions.

Let us have a look at how far can you fly our day with small self-reflection of such form. First of all, a person who has a look at his actualized goal assessment can justify it and start questioning any of them. Maybe the order of importance changes and one of the goals shall be replaced with others. For example, if we have been interested in another career for a long time and the moment just has arrived to take the next step. Other reasons for change can be much smaller, like a temporary change of living location, need for reorganization, or temporarily reorder goals. You can put together your career improvement from a different session with the representation of different goal-sets. The goal-sets are still consistent with respect to the overall values that we believe in. To keep track of personal transformation during the epochs of life and also to check the higher integrity the same simple daily mirror results in trend charts and reveal further learnings for you.

If we do regular monitoring through a period of life it becomes more visible what values are really important for us. There are many reasons why we might believe in certain values, why are those more preferred than others. Personality gives a good perspective to our preference, but many conditions affect us as well depending on the intensity of new we face or the challenges that we can take with freedom of choice. Imagine if we had a simple view of our motivators in the past career than we could easily predict what will be the next career stage that fits us. Even we can share this motivation history with friends and colleagues who we think can help with their objective view on the situation. Take a step further and model the situation when a career advisor has a look at this chart and helps to match the best possible role at the company where you are working and just onboarding.

We can use our motivation data for a deeper analysis of selected values. We might select one of the values that we believe can change or reframe to better represent our real interest. Most of the values can be transferred to a similar one which illustrates more precisely the actual state of life. If we believe that knowledge is important, at one stage of career knowledge means learning at another stage we need more experience and opportunity to practice and consult with experts. In other words, a proper style of representation of our motivators we can turn our attention to enhance our plan and execution of change. On this deeper level of analysis, we can also find commonalities with other colleagues and make even faster the learning process. With a good enough of courage, it is a good idea to find our communities around the online world and even build one on our preferred social channel for collective-motivational purposes.

It makes sense to continue value specific view of our career history. It is easy to select two important goals or the values supporting those specific goals. Why not bring them together on a single chart. By doing that we see how they relate to each other and more importantly the given period of our life-history.  Behind bubbles on the chart, there is a specific company of entrepreneurship moment and knowing that we come to another piece of conclusion. In some cases, the good motivators strengthen each other when we are working as freelancers in other person’s cases the great coincidence happens in a good team. Visual analysis is powerful even by simple manual research. But there are other heights of this exciting discovery, it is possible to call AI to discover yet unknown structures in our motivation data and visualize them for our happy surprise. Few data which are collected purposely can offer great discoveries and show us endless opportunities to shape our future path. In the next article, we will discuss the power of AI in the subject of motivation.

You can experience the easy fun the understanding the why about you and the team where you work. A simple tool is available to see the value of fluent motivation control, check it here: FLLIP