Comments on: What Are Values?

By: Travel Purses

Travel Purses — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:37:33 +0000

If there’s peace of mind then life seems to be perfect and easy. It would be easy to accept reality.

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:11:01 +0000

@ Chris – Man I can imagine. We have a 6 month old staying with us at the moment and everything changes!

By: nlp courses

nlp courses — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:34:36 +0000

“@ Lisa – It’s a tough one for me not having kids”…

Tim, I found all my priorities changed when I did :)

Chris

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:01:03 +0000

@ Moonpie – To be truthful I stopped talking politics with my dad by about age 25, so we had a lot of angst free years.

No sane person could look at you without seeing the inner beauty! Now go and get your hair cut.

@ Maartje – Devour away and the shirt is in the mail!

@ Lisa – It’s a tough one for me not having kids, but I’ll often say to clients that you have to trust you’ve done teh best job you can and let go.

Oh and that’s hilarious about your siblings! Send them to me ;-)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:44:53 +0000

Oh, and my older sister and oldest brother both have perfect values, and everyone should have the same values as them, and if you don’t you will hear about how crap your own values are and how right theirs are, endlessly, until you either walk away or punch them :) Many little wars, like you said.

PS: I sent them both your post, and my brother came back with “How very simple, I value always being right!”

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:31:08 +0000

Hi Tim,

Your blog today got me thinking about my 20 year old son (who is darling and sweet) and about his (poor) judgement (about things like body piercing, tatoos, driving like Mario Andretti, etc.) And while the two of us are very close, we obviously have different value systems, and the vast majority of our disagreements can be attributed to just that fact.

I think parents just assume their children will have the same values as them–he’s my son! We’ve lived together for 20 years! We share DNA! But my son is his own person with his own set of values, and I need to acknowledge and embrace that fact (as hard as that is).

(Please know that by ‘acknowledge and embrace’ I mean his value system, not poor behavior.)

Good lesson, as usual. Thanks,

Lisa

By: Maartje

Maartje — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:56:42 +0000

Love this post, and am very much looking forward to the rest of the series. And the shirt off your back, of course. :)

I have made decisions in which my values were clear and decisions in which they were unclear. The latter type always feels rushed and forced and anxious, and the former type feels peaceful, unshakeable and rock-solid.

And I’ll be devouring anything that makes those kinds of decisions easier to reach and the values more easy to spot!

By: Carousel — 03.05.10 : evolution you

Carousel — 03.05.10 : evolution you — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:55:26 +0000

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