Decisions you can stand on

You filled out the exercise on the Values Finder and emailed the PDF to yourself. It is in your inbox, unopened.Then a decision arrives towards the end of a working day, with a deadline of the end of the week, and you make it the same way you always have. Reactive, from the gut, with the reasoning made after the event.Your values list did not even come into it. It never had the chance.Decide once, not every timeYour values pay off when they are turned forward into standing decisions. Rules you have already made, so that the under-pressure version of you is not working through the same conflict with every decision.If family is top of your list, it might mean Friday evenings are not negotiable. This is a standing decision and it removes a whole category of choices about overtime, travel and late meetings in advance.Clients I have worked with on values have found these forward decisions the hardest part to build. The ones who do the work and then report back after three or six months…

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