World Values Day 2020

World Values Day 2020

October 15th 2020 is World Values Day.

Team Boo talk about ‘values’ a lot. We all have them but we are not all consciously aware of them – so what are these mysterious abstract things that we are instinctively basing our lives around?

Our values are the things that silently help us make choices – about our friends, jobs and life partners, about where we shop and where we live and even where we go on holiday.

They are the small voice that whispers to our hearts to prompt us to get excited or riled about a particular topic. They are the reason we feel at ease in one particular environment or deeply uncomfortable in another.

When you’ve carried these values all your life it can be difficult to find the perspective to scrutinise and identify them. A simple way to do this is to use a pack of our values cards.

Almost everybody who uses our cards goes through a similar process, shuffling through to find what is important, and discarding what isn’t.

Love – yes, Friendship – yes, Joy – yes, Peace – yes, Money – yes,  Honesty – yes, Compassion – yes… and so on, until you have a pile of 50 odd values in front of you that you claim as your own. They’re all important, of course. But it’s the ones at your very core that drive you.

What if you could only have 20? Now you must select a finer instrument to dig. What is it that might make you choose contentment over joy? Family, over home? This bit takes a while.

You are then dismayed to find you can only have 10, although you manage it.

You suspect what’s coming next when you have to cut it down to just five, and yet, sometimes, this is the quickest part. The treasure has been mostly uncovered by now and it takes merely the softest brush strokes to reveal your core values, the once you cannot live without. Sometimes they are accompanied by a revelation – ohhh so that’s why I was unhappy in that job, or that relationship…

What do you do with this new found awareness? Whatever you like. Boo is a business built on values; they are our rules of engagement, they help us operate in the way we think is right. Here they are:

 

Even your core values change through your life, so it’s worth investing in a pack of values cards  – heres the link.

Team Boo x