Examining Your Values – Take Action

Should you wish to corroborate your choice, you can ask this question: “In leading a life based on these values, am I moving toward or away from being the kind of person who would inhabit the kind of world I want to leave to my descendents seven generations hence?”

As I began the process of examining my Values, committing them to paper and prioritising them as I had done so many times in strategic planning exercises with clients,  I recalled a story. It occurred in 1944 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, a tiny cattle and railroad town on the Canadian prairies. I was five years old.