What motivates you in life? What helps you have the energy and perseverance each day to keep going?

We all have different motivations. Some are selfish, and some are altruistic, but they often come down to our values. What we value will ultimately motivate us in our lives.

We want to do the work to recognize our values so we can focus on them and let them empower us to live a thriving life.

On today’s show, we discuss how values direct our lives and keep us from getting distracted or off course.

• Values are like a bridge between the wisdom of God and our everyday lives
• Values give a specificity to eternal principles and allow you to connect with them.
• Jim Dobson “I believe it [the midlife crisis] is more a phenomenon of a wrong value system than it is the age group in which it occurs. All of a sudden you realize that the ladder you've been climbing is leaning against the wrong wall.”

• Values inform your decisions and responses to life.
• If you do not choose, someone else will choose for you.
• “Your values are tested daily by those who do not embrace them.” John Maxwell

• Values force you to face reality every day: the difference between how you want to live and how you are living.
• You have to discover what’s important to you if you want to make progress.
• Your value score isn’t about the outcome of the day, but the input of that day.
• It’s not about how the day went, it’s about how you went through the day.
• It empowers you because it’s not about what’s outside your control, but what is in your control.

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What good are values? How do they help us in the everyday chaos of life?

That is what we are talking about on the show today. We will discuss how values are essential for us as we navigate life. Just like a compass helps sailors arrive at their destination, values guide us to live empowered lives. This means each day can be rich and full of meaning no matter what you do for a job or how many tasks you have to accomplish.

• Values can act as a compass and bring focus amidst the chaos.
• Values give us direction on what action to take.
• Values help us cut out the unnecessary or unimportant in our lives.

• Without values, we aren’t aiming our lives in any specific direction
• Values force us to choose.
• If we don’t choose a direction for our lives, someone or something else will choose for us.
• The current of life draws us towards the easy and the urgent. The easy and the urgent are rarely the important.
• Not choosing is a choice.

• A million different voices are screaming at us that we NEED to do their thing. (Buy their product, take their course, follow their advice, etc.)
• There is a dangerous assumption in our world that we can do everything.
• You CANNOT do it all. “Teach us to number our days, that we might gain a heart of wisdom.”(Psalm 90:12)
• We don’t need to do everything. We just need to do the right things
• The difference between a light and a laser is the focus.
• The difference between surviving and thriving is the focus.

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Samwise Gamgee was an iconic character in the Lord of the Rings series. He was an everyday gardener who was put into some unbelievable situations. The amazing thing about Sam was that he didn’t let the good or bad situations change him. He had a strong identity and stuck to it no matter the situation.

Many men today are facing an identity crisis. This is due to their lack of foundational values. When a man has strong values, he will often have a strong identity. He can stand up in hard situations and is less likely to back down in the pressure cooker of life.

Today’s show discusses how our values help shape our identity.

“You have to be great and world-changing!”

All the unrealistic men on TV and social media.

Who am I? Do I need to be like them?

How we often look to accomplishments to validate ourselves.

They help you become more confident in who you are

They give you a pathway on how you should live

Values guide us and keep us focused on what we can control

Values are meant to guide your personal behavior, not define your circumstances.

Values guide how we live more than how we feel, where we are at in life, or how others respond.

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