Align your life with your values

My friends and family tease me about being the most organized person on the planet. I have honed Outlook to a fine science. I carry my to-do and calendar with me in my smartphone. Technology is my friend. I generally get where I am supposed to be on time and with the materials I need. (OK, there was that one meeting...).

I have been humbled, and I'm really excited about connecting my organizational skills to the core of my life, reducing stress and being more inspired, productive, and proactive. I spent all weekend at a seminar named LifeWoRx by Design led by Don Cote and sponsored by my friend Jodee Bock from Bock's Office Transformational Consulting.

The take-home was the continuing process of connecting my core values to my everyday actions. I was good at making my list, prioritizing and getting things done. I had connected those actions to the needs of my business, clients, and myself. What I hadn't done was to take that big step back and define what was important in my life now.

Don's program is based on Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. If you haven't read this book, click on the title and order it now. Then, take Don's course. Think and Grow Rich outlines the process of setting goals based on our values and true desires. LifeWoRx by Design takes it further. Don calls it paint-by-numbers Think and Grow Rich. He's right.

In the three days since the seminar, I have further clarified my values and goals, taken steps toward reaching them, connected them to my everyday commitments and actions, and understood more about how to keep doing that.

That's the real secret. Everyone has come home and shelved the three-ring binder or stayed excited until the reality of another work week squeezed it out of you. This seminar shows you how to keep using the process. Don has made the inspiration and commitments difficult to abandon and impossible to forget.