What’s Been Important in Your Life
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What's Been Important in Your Life
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Living closer to what matters
Values are the quiet compass under the noise of daily life. “What's Been Important in Your Life” asks you to listen for what you most want your life to express, and to notice where your hours and your values have drifted apart.
How mindfulness can help
Mindfulness makes room for the stillness in which values become easier to hear. When the distraction settles, the deeper preferences of the heart get a word in. Practice helps us not only know our values but live closer to them.
Gentle steps to try
- Take the long view. Picture yourself ten years from now looking back on this season. What would you hope was true about how you spent it?
- Choose three words. Pick three words for what you most want to embody. Write them somewhere you will see them daily.
- Check one choice. Look at one decision in front of you this week. Which option moves you toward your three words?
- Forgive the gap. Notice the gap between values and behavior with curiosity, not judgment. The noticing is the practice.
A meaningful life is built one small alignment at a time. The point is not to live your values perfectly, but to keep returning to them.
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