Cultivate your moral compass (#3 of 6)
Today I want to share #3 of 6 foundational keys to becoming more productive, resourceful and successful.
#3 Cultivating your moral compass
Religious faith is associated with overall higher levels of emotional well being. (Now keep in mind research always describes groups and never any single individual.) There have been many research studies in psychology and medicine with a variety of groups, including college students, individuals recently widowed and adults with a variety of medical issues. All of this research indicates that having a system of faith allows people to navigate through life crises and life transitions more effortlessly. Having a clear moral compass provides individuals with a level of certainty and an ability to make sense and meaning out of difficult life experiences.
One way you can use your day-to-day choices to cultivate your moral compass is through engaging in consistent acts of kindness and generosity. A kind acts benefits both the person who engages in the kind act as well as the recipient of the kind act. For both it leads to an elevation in seritonin metabolite (a chemical associated with feelings of well-being).
Think about this relationship between your commitment to cultivating your moral compass and your overall success. Forget about pursuing success.
Forget about success?
What are you saying Dr. Mike?
I am saying - forget about pursuing success.
Instead follow Einstein's principle: "Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value."
A person of contribution.
Success is a result of becoming the person you become.
You attract what you want in life as you become the complete person you have the power to become.
This may seem a little abstract, so let me narrow this down to a coaching exercise.
Here are some action steps to help you make the wise choices that will positively shape your life.
1. Determine what you want from life- Visualize what it looks and feels like. Write it down. Draw pictures, use shapes, symbols and colors to truly capture the life you want and love.
2. Clarify your values. Make a list of the things in life that are most important to you-write them down and in order of importance. Ask yourself what values would I need to dedicate myself to attract the kind of life I described above.
3. Identify the morals and guiding principles you are committed to living your life by. Write down at least 10 qualities that reflect the most cherished morals and principles you are committed to holding yourself to. They may include kindness, compassion, honesty, integrity, loyalty, dedication, humility, etc....
4. For each of the morals or principles you have identified, identified specific behaviors that would exemplify them. The more specific the better.
5. Use the lists from #2, 3 and 4 when you are presented with tough choices or dilemma. Ask your self how approaching this situation with the value, moral or principle of __________________ would look like?
6. Each morning anchor yourself to what you identified in #1. Also anchor yourself to the values, morals and principles you are committed to dedicating your life to. Then complicate Einstein's principle: "Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value."
Here is to futher cultivating your moral compass!
Dr. Mike
mike@PartnersInPurpoe.com
847 490-7689
#3 Cultivating your moral compass
Religious faith is associated with overall higher levels of emotional well being. (Now keep in mind research always describes groups and never any single individual.) There have been many research studies in psychology and medicine with a variety of groups, including college students, individuals recently widowed and adults with a variety of medical issues. All of this research indicates that having a system of faith allows people to navigate through life crises and life transitions more effortlessly. Having a clear moral compass provides individuals with a level of certainty and an ability to make sense and meaning out of difficult life experiences.
One way you can use your day-to-day choices to cultivate your moral compass is through engaging in consistent acts of kindness and generosity. A kind acts benefits both the person who engages in the kind act as well as the recipient of the kind act. For both it leads to an elevation in seritonin metabolite (a chemical associated with feelings of well-being).
Think about this relationship between your commitment to cultivating your moral compass and your overall success. Forget about pursuing success.
Forget about success?
What are you saying Dr. Mike?
I am saying - forget about pursuing success.
Instead follow Einstein's principle: "Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value."
A person of contribution.
Success is a result of becoming the person you become.
You attract what you want in life as you become the complete person you have the power to become.
This may seem a little abstract, so let me narrow this down to a coaching exercise.
Here are some action steps to help you make the wise choices that will positively shape your life.
1. Determine what you want from life- Visualize what it looks and feels like. Write it down. Draw pictures, use shapes, symbols and colors to truly capture the life you want and love.
2. Clarify your values. Make a list of the things in life that are most important to you-write them down and in order of importance. Ask yourself what values would I need to dedicate myself to attract the kind of life I described above.
3. Identify the morals and guiding principles you are committed to living your life by. Write down at least 10 qualities that reflect the most cherished morals and principles you are committed to holding yourself to. They may include kindness, compassion, honesty, integrity, loyalty, dedication, humility, etc....
4. For each of the morals or principles you have identified, identified specific behaviors that would exemplify them. The more specific the better.
5. Use the lists from #2, 3 and 4 when you are presented with tough choices or dilemma. Ask your self how approaching this situation with the value, moral or principle of __________________ would look like?
6. Each morning anchor yourself to what you identified in #1. Also anchor yourself to the values, morals and principles you are committed to dedicating your life to. Then complicate Einstein's principle: "Try not to become a person of success. Rather become a person of value."
Here is to futher cultivating your moral compass!
Dr. Mike
mike@PartnersInPurpoe.com
847 490-7689
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