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They define your priorities in life and shape your actions, interactions, motivations and choices.

You probably have some sense of what they are, yet we don't often take time to step back to take stock of them, reflect on them and assess how you're doing in living a life that is consistent with them.

	Where are you out of balance?
	Where do you compromise your values for the sake of ease and convenience and ‘not making waves'? How do you feel about that?
	What things do you say are important to you that you are really just giving lip service to?
	What could you do differently, starting today, that would be a deeper expression of your most sacred values?
	What are you doing to share your values and dialog with those around you about theirs?

I've found that we rarely communicate our values, those things that we hold most important to us, to others around us. Perhaps we're self-conscious about them. Perhaps we believe they aren't interested. Perhaps it's just easier to talk about the tasks at hand and avoid the intimacy that is created when we let down our guard and really share from our hearts.

So my challenge to you is this, identify three things that are really important to you and share them with someone you work with. Ask them what they value and see what difference it makes in the quality of your relationship.

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