Listening To Life

Two of the most important exercises a person can do is identify their personal core values and live them out. I’ve discovered that trying to live out aspirational values may lead us down the path of inauthenticity. Why? Parker Palmer puts it this way:

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
Before you tell your life what truths and values
you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

What are the values you find yourself instinctively living? That’s what real.