Core Values Aren’t Something You Hang on a Wall — They’re the Way You Live

Never go into business with someone like this, someone who does not completely align with your core values. After navigating a lot of toxic relationship after toxic relationship, both professionally and personally, I started to evaluate that I was the common denominator. What was I doing wrong to attract the kind of people into my life that didn't bring me anything that I was looking for. And so I dove into, and I'm diving into right now, core values work and really identifying and getting aligned with what are my core values, what is very important to me, what are my non negotiables with any that I surround myself with in my life. And ultimately for me, it's truth, love and freedom. And below those are other values that are very important, like integrity, honesty, continuous improvement and growth, loyalty, performance, courage. Oh, I could give you a whole list of my core values, but now I'm diving into what are the actions beyond these values. So what does integrity mean? How does that show up as an actual action? And when you get very clear on your values, you can start to ask the right questions for these new relationships in your life or these new partnership opportunities and you can start to uncover somebody, these core values very quickly before you make the mistake of going into business with them, hiring them, dating them, or any of these other decisions that may end up costing you time, energy, money and a lot of headache in your life. So get aligned on your core values and don't ever go into business with somebody who is not.