Hey, this is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

I am here with the 8th Principle, structure, or tool for you to give yourself a system upgrade, a tune-up, so to speak.

Today I’m talking about reevaluating your values.

When you are looking at the way your rules are set up, your rules and your structures should be creating an environment where you have a beautiful pathway to your dream, vision, or next level.

If you’re getting caught up and stuck, in procrastination or perfectionism, or you can’t seem to figure out what to do next, and you’re a very intelligent human, there are things in the way.

It’s usually your beliefs, your values, your structures, your paradigms.

Over time, from the time you’re little to now, your values change, and your ideas about what you want change.

You can have experienced a lot of different information that’s made you think differently.

I’ll give you an example.

Years ago I was taught to be frugal with materials.

It doesn’t mean cheap.

It means, “Don’t waste anything.”

“Use everything to the max.”

“Don’t throw things away that still have value.”

“Use and value your resources.”

So I grew up with this environmental ethic and I read a lot, and watched a lot of public television shows about the environment.

They all ended with some forecast of extinction and challenge.

We are still steeped in it.

I realize it’s a big industry getting people to jump from one energy source to the other when they are not really that much better than each other.

It’s very interesting.

When I got into my early twenties and thirties, with a feeling of foreboding that the natural environment was in jeopardy.

There still is a lot of that thought going on.

At some point, I got into a situation where I was doing so well in a business that.

I was involved with that I was given a choice to have the monthly payments for a luxury car provided for me.

This put me at a quandary because on the one hand, I was driving a Prius and I was feeling good about the gas mileage and the lightness of it.

It felt light on the environment.

It felt good, it felt like it made sense.

On the other hand, I was taught not to waste money.

I was given the option to drive a luxury car and be paid twice as much for choosing the luxury car than I would get if I just chose the cash.

Wow!

I had to really think.

It caused me to make a decision about if I’m going to live in fear and lack in the environment or if I’m going to step fully into an abundance mindset where we live in an abundant universe and there’s trust, that Mother Earth is striving for thriving as much as any of us know.

You know when you cut yourself, you start healing right away.

When you dig a garden bed in the soil, if you don’t tend to it immediately, it starts growing with things.

There’s so much evidence, so I started looking for evidence of thriving.

I saw that when I was a child Lake Erie near Cincinnati started on fire, now my partner Mike annually goes to Lake Erie because it’s a world-class fishery for walleye.

When things stopped polluting that area, nature started cleaning up immediately.

I started to find, as we talked about yesterday. all sorts of counterexamples to some of the belief systems that I had held before.

I reevaluated my values.

I decided that I was going to choose an abundance mindset, a trust mindset, a belief in abundance, rigor, strength, power, and autonomy.

I wasn’t going to be steeped anymore in this living small, living in fear of something being destroyed or lost.

I reevaluated my values, and it shifted some of these antiquated beliefs out and aligned new things.

If your belief is now conflicting with your updated core values, that creates motivation to let those antiquated things go.

I just want to remind you that you are the creator of your universe.

You are the decision maker on your rule you either choose to believe in and/or follow, someone else’s rules, you’ve chosen, and now they’re yours, or those you have created based on whatever you want or you have experienced.

It’s really important every once in a while to see if your values have changed and even deeper than that, if your understandings have changed about how things work, and if you are giving yourself the ability to move and flow with life, learning, and expansion.

Today’s call to action is for you.

I know these are all big, so I suggest taking just one of your rules and going all the way through this whole process.

If you’re a super achiever, keep going through your list or pick five, but it might be nice to pick one because then you can focus on each step.

Today’s step is taking a look at your values and seeing if that rule aligns anymore, if it even pertains to you anymore, if it even has value.

If it doesn’t, pop it out of there.

Sending you love.