In this video, we're going to talk about bias. Now, when I mentioned this to most people, they kind of roll their eyes a little bit. nobody really wants to do this work. But there's a couple reasons why it's so important. Here's the first. When you know your values, it makes everything in life easier.

You can use them as your guiding principles for every decision that you have to make big or small. And on top of that, it sets a direction for you in life. Now, you're already trying to figure out your work direction, knowing your values is really going to help. So let me give you an example of how I've used my values as my guiding principles. I already mentioned in the last video that I got to a state in my lifestyle where I found I was really happy and my question from there was, well, how do I make this sustainable? How do I keep it going?

While I had already set up the value and knew that I really found experiences more valuable than materialistic things, when I considered how to keep things going, I looked at my house, I own a house at that time. I thought it's a materialistic thing. For me. It's stuff. It wasn't really giving me the experiences that some people get from a home. So some people have large families and their home is very much an emotional attachment, that kids are growing up there, or they're entertaining a lot.

And they're using their home to have great experiences. I wasn't doing that it was stuff to me. So that made my decision really easy. When I decided to consult a realtor. They of course wanted me to act really fast. Well, I was able to give them a decision within 24 hours.

Yes, I'm going to sell my house. That's a big decision to make In 24 hours, and it's because I already had that pre work done, of knowing my values and using those as my guiding principles. Your values are your decision makers, they're your guiding light, they're your principles, and they really set direction for you in life. Here's another reason why knowing your values is important. So many people say that they enjoy the job because they enjoy the people that they work with. Now, when you're looking for a job with people that you're going to like, I mean, how are you going to know ahead of time, if you only get along with those people.

Generally, if you have similar values to those people, or that company, then you're going to be in an environment where you're enjoying it. It's when you've got a mitt mismatch of values that trouble can happen. So for example, if you're really career driven and growth is incredibly important, To you, then you want to be in a company that supports that. Now, how do you figure out that whether a company supports it or not? Because sometimes they'll say one thing on their website, when in actual fact, you get in there, and it's not quite where you thought you'd go to different industry events. And every time you meet people, you talk to them, you ask them questions, what company do you work at?

Do you? Are you really into growth? And is education important to you? Does your company support that? Give me an example, you get really curious. So once you know what your values are, you're more likely to ask the right questions to people and attract the people that have similar values, and also be attracted to those people and those companies.

And that's going to set you up to be in a company and with people that believe what you believe it's a lot easier when you're working side by side with people and then a company that supports your values. So now you're probably thinking Well, I think I know my values, but I'm not really sure I haven't done the work yet. There's a few ways to figure it out. One is just simply reflection. Think about it deeply consider it take the time to think what is important to you, you might already know the answer. Another way to look at it is to consider the opposite of something.

So if you see something in somebody that really frustrates you, or a situation that you can think of that's happened recently, maybe your current workplace that really frustrates you. Figure out what about it, it's frustrating you and maybe it's the opposite that your value, maybe you're not liking that situation, because it goes against your values. So figure it out and what is the opposite is that something that's really important to you? Another way to do it is to take something that's common is simple value to that top line like, you know, family is important to a lot of people And then just start digging down deeper and deeper to try and figure out what about family is really a meaningful value to you. So instead of just saying, oh, family's important, what's meaningful to us, so perhaps it's about being a good parent. So what about being a parent is meaningful to you isn't that you can spend lots of time with your children.

Now that's going to affect what kind of job you get. Or maybe it's not so much about time, but when you with them, you're bringing your best self because you're not stressed out thinking about things in the office, that is also going to make a impact on what kind of job you get. Or maybe being a good parent to you means that you can afford to give them great opportunities that again, will impact what kind of job you get. So you can see how your values and your work related values especially are really going to affect what kind of work you should be considering for your next career. So take a few minutes and write down two or three of the values that you think are important and you want to take to the brainstorm stage. But I don't want you to spend forever on this because you're going to find that if you keep this topic, Top of Mind in the next few days, the next week or so, you can come back to it and add to this list.

So just try to think of two or three values that you want to bring with you for the next stage and reflect on that and I will see you in the next video.