I believe and value people. I think that investing in people is the way to help others and in so doing, you will always benefit, although sometimes those benefits may take awhile to come back to you. I believe in equality and that love is love. I also believe in love, in sleep, and in nutrition. I believe you have to feed your mind, body, and soul in order to become a better leader. These are simple things, but challenging to live by.
My values include being compassionate, being self aware and having a strong sense of self and relationship management. My values also extend to adaptability, connectivity, and proactivity. I think that I am also a creative individual that can connect with people and together we can solve problems. I believe my leadership values have improved over the semester, but are ever evolving. In reflecting on my values, I realized that I have to constantly reflect on how my daily rhythms are working with or against my values.
I think my rhythms somewhat line up with my values, however I believe a lot of my workplace rhythms focus on the minutia, and don’t really help my big picture values. For instance, after analyzing my daily rhythms, I care about timeliness and responding to emails (even the unimportant ones), whereas I should focus on some of my other rhythms like my communication skills and my kind, empathetic behavior towards others. I also realized that by looking at my rhythms, they don’t truly match up with my longer term goals. So, I will work on making sure my daily actions and inactions (times when I am not productive) can better align with my values. I believe having a vision board and a reminder of the big picture will aide those moments when I am bored or tired or just focusing on the wrong details. I think I also have to keep asking the 5 Why’s or figuring out the why, instead of the how or the what to help make sure my daily work matches up with my beliefs.
I think that analyzing your rhythms and putting them next to your values was a fantastic activity, that really allows you to connect the dots of how your day to day actions match up with your true values or if there are some disconnects. I certainly found that there were some daily dots that needed to be corrected. It is a great visual exercise to see how the day to day can effect the bigger picture. Ultimately if your rythyms match up with your values, and your values match up with your beliefs, than you are much more likely to be able to become a great leader and have your life sentence come to fruition.
