Explore your values. Part 5, Exercise 5.
Welcome to the fifth and final part of this series!
You’re going to create your manifesto and think about some next steps.
If you’re new here, hello and welcome! This is part 5 of the Values Series, in which I share my coaching practice’s values and give you one exercise a week to create or update yours. Work through parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, and then come back here!
Care to Impact Value #5
Before getting to the exercise, I’m going to share the third Care to Impact value with you.
Holding Space
We hold space and take time to gently and compassionately allow our fellow humans and non-humans to breathe, rest, recharge, and transform, and let our thoughts and ideas take shape, our minds and bodies regenerate, and our actions make an impact. We embrace slowness, stillness, and darkness as part of our cyclical collective nature.
Craft Your Values – Exercise #5
Step 1
Take one of the values you listed in Exercise #1 and review everything you created so far about it: stories, experiences, why, and the one word you chose to name it.
Step 2
Write a short description of this value in a way that helps you remember what it truly means to you and why it matters.
Step 3
After you have settled on a description, review the word you chose for the value. Do you still like it? Do you want to change it? Do whatever you want, and when you’re ready, go to the next step.
Step 4
Repeat the process for each value.
Step 5
Now that you have your words and descriptions create your values manifesto. It can be anything you like. A handwritten sheet. A PDF. A visual board with both images and written values. A digital note where you link a playlist of music or sounds representing your values. Anything goes!
My values manifesto
My manifesto is a super simple PDF file. It also lives on my website as my business manifesto to help people understand what I stand for immediately.
Your next steps
You defined or revised your values because you acknowledge that living in alignment with them nurtures your well-being, makes decision-making easier, and can also help attract the right clients to your business if that’s something you want.
So, now that you’ve created your manifesto, you won’t want to forget it in a drawer to gather dust.
Use the following questions to create some actionable next steps!
Where will you put your manifesto so you can see it and let it guide you?
How do you want your values to guide you?
What will you do to follow through with your intentions?
That’s it for this series. I’m glad we worked through it together!
Once you’re done with your manifesto, go do something you enjoy. You created an essential tool for your (or your business’s) well-being; it’s worth celebrating!
With care,
Giada
🗂️ Open Tabs
Stuff I kept thinking about or still open in my browser
The question that stops your phone obsession
😓 Despite how much I work to avoid doom-scrolling and feel somehow successful with it, this essay by Rebecca Hyman hit home, and I’m grateful for it. The questions it raises help further unravel this weird relationship we have with our phones. Or, I’d rather say with what we believe our phones can give us.