Why should you know your VALUES?
(Emotional Management for Personal & Professional Growth Series)
As we discussed the VALUES as a prime step towards achievement orientation, let us understand the need to realize the value by self.
We are driven by mostly two emotions, viz happiness (pleasure) and sadness (pain). Either we want to maximize the pleasure in any activities/circumstances or minimize the pain as much as possible. The outcome of the task depends on the emotional mix of pleasure and pain.
For example,
When your boss/ colleague asks you to prepare a presentation content, you may have two choices in executing the task. If you like preparing the presentation content, you want to maximize the pleasure of the preparation process. Hence you will be striving to give your best.
If you do not like the presentation preparation task and at the same time, you do not want to lose your boss/colleague's confidence or relationship, which you perceive as painful. To avoid the pain, somehow, you complete the preparation with a half-hearted effort.
In both choices, your presentation quality is based on the emotions you are undergoing in the task, maximizing the pleasure or minimizing the pain.
Now you can relate any task or circumstances in your professional context, you will realize you are driven by those two basic emotions only.
The key point is when you are driven by the emotion of pleasure, your quality of work is excellent, and when the emotion of pain guides you, your quality of work may be substandard.
The emotion comes from your like / dislike, which i term as your PREFERENCE or INTEREST or VALUES.
Life is a series of events or circumstances, and if we ensure most of them are inline with maximizing pleasure, our effectiveness would be high.
We need to learn how to identify our likes/dislikes or Interests or preferences or VALUE and align life inline with VALUES.
Let us learn the process of identifying the values and their significance in the coming weeks'.
We are driven by mostly two emotions, viz happiness (pleasure) and sadness (pain). Either we want to maximize the pleasure in any activities/circumstances or minimize the pain as much as possible. The outcome of the task depends on the emotional mix of pleasure and pain.
For example,
When your boss/ colleague asks you to prepare a presentation content, you may have two choices in executing the task. If you like preparing the presentation content, you want to maximize the pleasure of the preparation process. Hence you will be striving to give your best.
If you do not like the presentation preparation task and at the same time, you do not want to lose your boss/colleague's confidence or relationship, which you perceive as painful. To avoid the pain, somehow, you complete the preparation with a half-hearted effort.
In both choices, your presentation quality is based on the emotions you are undergoing in the task, maximizing the pleasure or minimizing the pain.
Now you can relate any task or circumstances in your professional context, you will realize you are driven by those two basic emotions only.
The key point is when you are driven by the emotion of pleasure, your quality of work is excellent, and when the emotion of pain guides you, your quality of work may be substandard.
The emotion comes from your like / dislike, which i term as your PREFERENCE or INTEREST or VALUES.
Life is a series of events or circumstances, and if we ensure most of them are inline with maximizing pleasure, our effectiveness would be high.
We need to learn how to identify our likes/dislikes or Interests or preferences or VALUE and align life inline with VALUES.
Let us learn the process of identifying the values and their significance in the coming weeks'.
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