Great people have a working value system
As a successiul person, you may desire to excel in every field. You may want to be a renowned writer, a skilled carpenter, a great mechanic, or a good estate manager. While these ambitions are not wrong, failure to meet the standards you set for them may adversely affect you. To prevent this, do not bite off more than you can chew. Be objective in your ambitions.
Asking too much of yourself will lead to disappointment. You can also take them one at a time; if you have more than one interest, you’ll need a value system.
⚡️A value system will remind you how strong you are regardless of how often you fail.
See yourself as a human being with a knack for excellence. Far too often, we attach our value to the accolades we win and the successes we achieve in business and life. This attachment makes us downcast when things are not going as we want.
So, you must detach yourself from what you do and recognize that your value does not change, irrespective of the results.
Tying your value to performance is courting disaster. No person always produces perfection, but getting it wrong is only a testament to humanity. Your identity comes from the value system that you embrace. If your principles see you as human, you stand a better chance of excelling at what you do.
Your decision-making skills will improve when your value system is sound. To illustrate, if you realize that your company has produced an inferior product that may harm people, you have to decide whether to withdraw the product or focus on making a profit, irrespective of the damage the product may cause. Your value system determines your choice, and result-oriented ethics prioritize profit over safety. In contrast, principles detached from results will make a better judgment of putting the safety of lives before money.
⚡️Your identity should not depend on anybody’s expectations of you; it must reflect your personal choices and decisions.