Understanding and Prioritising Your Values

Tired of feeling like your values are just a list of nice words on a page? The Integrated Values Iceberg© goes beyond simply identifying your values. It helps you understand how your values truly operate, guiding your decisions and shaping your actions at an unconscious level.

Integrating Values for Lasting Impact

The Integrated Values Iceberg© works by integrating your values so they drive your behaviour and help you become a great listener, parent, friend, or anything you want to be.

Are you thinking: “Values, not values again,” or “I know my values,” or “I’ve worked on values and nothing changed,” or something like that? If you have worked on your values, then you will enjoy the Integrated Values Iceberg© because it works at a deeper level and irons out some of the mistakes you might have made in the past. This means it works with your natural neurological processes, or your natural way of doing things, to achieve the outcomes you are looking for.

To understand how it works and why it is so effective at driving new behaviours, you need to know how your unconscious works.

Understanding Values

To understand why the Integrated Values Iceberg© is so effective, you need to understand values.

When you value something, you are giving it a level of importance.

It’s as simple as that. A value is something we consider important or hold in high regard.

Unfortunately, when it comes to values, there is a tendency for people to get confused. This is because we go through the process of valuing to decide whether it has value, and if it does, we call it a value, which is confusing.

You may find it easier to link values with priorities. You go through a process of prioritising to end up with priorities. It’s the same with values. You go through a process of valuing to end up with values.

Here are a couple of things about values that you need to remember:

  • Values are yours. You decide what matters most.
  • The value you give something is up to you.
  • Values are always relative. You are comparing one against another and deciding which matters most.

Establishing your values sets new priorities for your unconscious, which is why values are such a powerful way to reprogram your unconscious and why the Integrated Values Iceberg© is so effective for creating sustained change.

The Importance of Value Types

A common mistake people make when working on their values is trying to work on different types at the same time. For example, when asked to name their values, most people would include things like family and honesty. But values are always relative to each other, so when someone is trying to rank their values, they could end up trying to compare the importance of a character trait like honesty with the importance of an outcome like family. How would you do that? It would be like trying to compare the importance of a credit card with a healthy meal. They are not the same thing! Comparing apples and oranges in this way creates confusion. You can end up going in circles.

To work on values properly, and to create the unconscious behaviour you want, you need to separate them into different types. Check out our blogs where we will explore the different types of values and how to identify them, or contact us re our Integrated Values Iceberg© workshop.

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