Alexandra NielDivorce Recovery Coach, ANiel International, LLC. · I help women who held it all together through divorce finally build a life that’s actually theirs | Thrive After Divorce

Your Values are the Secret Recipe to Living Your Best Life #shorts

8 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this short motivational monologue, the speaker likens personal identity and values to cooking a meal using a recipe. They explain that, just as a chef follows a recipe, tastes the result, and then tweaks ingredients, we start with a foundational set of values (our "basic recipe") and then assess whether it aligns with who we are or who we want to become. The speaker encourages an experimental, iterative approach: remove, add, or adjust values until the personal “dish” feels right, emphasizing that this customization is where the fun and growth happen.

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When I look at our identity and our values, I almost liken it to cooking a meal, right? Making a recipe. Oh, we're back to the recipe. Okay. When I cook something new, I go by the recipe. It tells me a dash of this, a pound of that, whatever. I do it and then I taste it. Do I like it? Do I not like it? And then I think about what would I do differently? Maybe I take that out or add twice what they said of this thing. Crafting our identity using our values is for me a little bit the same because we start out with our foundation, right, which is our basic recipe, and then we decide whether or not it fits with who we are or who we want to be. And that's when the fun begins, right? We take things out, we add things in, we make it right for us.