Values aren’t discovered by circling words on a list.
They’re found in the moments when something costs you — when you had to choose, when you held a line, when you didn’t and felt the quiet erosion afterward.
This post is a spotlight on the book that helps you find what’s actually real, and build a life you can trust around it.
Setting boundaries isn’t hard because you lack assertiveness.
It’s hard because a part of you learned, long ago, that expressing your needs was dangerous.
Understanding that is where real change begins.
There were about 5 seconds of complete silence.
Then it walloped him!
A moment of recognition — a powerful insight about his values changed everything for him.
A couple of months back, I was offered an opportunity to be a guest on a podcast called The Daily Path.
It was my first ‘real’ podcast and we got the chance to speak about: what brought me to coaching as a profession — the work of Values Coaching — and what one of my biggest obstacles has been in business.