Why is value alignment required?

 Why is value alignment required?

(Emotional Management for Personal & Professional Growth Series)

 

In continuation of last week's discussion, the quality of work depends on the emotions we are driven to work, either pleasure or pain. In simple terms, when we like the task, the quality of work will also be better.

Similarly, from a larger life perspective, when we align what we like to do and what we do, the quality of life will be relatively good. Here, what we want or prefer, or what is important to us, is called VALUE.

When there is VALUE CONFLICT between what you like to do and what you do most of the time, it will affect personal and professional performance. It leads to suboptimal performance compared to the potential.
 
For example,

you give more importance to CREATIVITY as your value, and your work environment is not conducive for demonstrating creativity. It will create value conflict inside of you that leads to low-level emotional experience.

You may prioritize making more money in life (who does not give priority?), that is one value of you, and at the same time, you would like to give importance to being in comfort without much effort, that is also one value of you. If you have both values internally, you will be undergoing guilt as basically, both values do not align or match together.

Knowing your dominant preference in life and resolving the conflict preference of values are essential for personal and professional achievement.
 
Let us learn the structured process of identifying the core values next week.