How do you trust yourself?

Identify Your Values:

Sample Values:
The list below is great to give you ideas.
Remember – it’s NOT a checklist.

Circle the words that connect with you!

Your Values are UNIQUE to you and there is no right or wrong

THIS IS FOR YOU!

Accomplishment
Accuracy
Acknowledgment
Adventure
Authenticity
Beauty
Calm
Collaboration
Community
Compassion
Comradeship
Confidence
Connectedness
Contentment
Contribution
Cooperation
Courage
Creativity
Curiosity
Determination
Directness
Discovery
Ease
Effortlessness
Empowerment
Enthusiasm
Environment
Excellence
Focus
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Generosity
Gentleness
Growth
Happiness
Harmony
Health
Helpfulness
Honesty
Humor/Humour
Idealism
Independence
Integrity
Joy
Kindness
Learning
Love
Loyalty
Orderliness
Participation
Partnership
Passion
Patience
Peace
Productivity
Recognition
Respect
Romance
Self-Esteem
Service
Simplicity
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Strength
Tact
Thankfulness
Tolerance
Tradition
Trust
Understanding
Unity
Vitality

Chose yourself – Remake yourself + what is most important you!

Look at every path closely and deliberately.?
Try it as many times as you think necessary.?
This question is one that only a very old man asks …?
Does this path have a heart?  
If it does, the path is good;
if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
~ Carlos Castaneda

Get your journal out!
Begin the journey of becoming someone you trust!

This is how Benjamin Franklin did it! Benjamin Franklin was the quintessential self-made man. From humble beginnings, he rose.

In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character.
In his autobiography, Franklin listed his thirteen virtues as:

1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. Industry. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
11. Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

In the morning he asked himself, “What good shall I do this day?” And he ended the day by asking himself, “What good have I done today?”

The key to Franklin’s success was his drive to constantly improve himself – mentally, professionally, and morally.

Franklin was a productivity master. It’s likely what allowed him to juggle a variety of roles and tasks, including writer, printer, politician, entrepreneur, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and postmaster. In his autobiography, he shared his daily routine, and its simplicity struck me. So did its rigor.

Franklin was a morning person and a creature of habit. He got up at the same time every day, worked a set number of hours, and then went to bed at the same time. He wrote in his journal. He spent 2 hours on self-reflection and mastery in the morning! Journaling to keep track of his progress in living.
He created a chart in a charting them. Each week he would specifically focus on one virtue while also keeping track of the others. He would then move on to the next virtue and so on, eventually going through four cycles of each of the virtues in a single year.