The Second Book The 48th Chapter - Measuring Your Value

Sept 1/17

How do you measure your value in regards to the positive impact on yourself and others around you?  Or more importantly how do you increase your own value of being a complete person?  All new growth starts when you start asking yourself questions like these.

These very same questions I have asked myself and continue to ask.  The value of you is ultimately determined by you with a combination of a life time of integrating new skills to help you achieve your goals. 

Picture a sailing ship that is beautiful with old fashioned craftsmanship and with a large sail area for the wind to push along that boat.  Now picture the entire splendor of that ship, including all the food stores required for a long voyage, except for the sails.  Currently the sails are in the storage position and the ship is not moving in that direction that it has been charted for. 

All of your life skills are the boat and the person you can become is determined by how you utilize these skills are in the sails.  As you deploy your sails further into the wind of life the greater your momentum becomes of your success.  The key is increasing your value that directly results in your sails getting deployed further.  Can you improve any current activities?

I would like you to think of two goals that you desperately want to complete, yet haven't.  Once you have them, write down two reasons for each goal to why you haven't completed them.  After you have completed this exercise, the next step is to sit quietly for five minutes and think back to why you wanted to complete these goals.  With your identified reasons of not completing your goals, refocus your aim of completion by breaking your goals into mini goals.  Keep in mind one step at a time combines to thousand to complete your distance.

Goal completing is your key to deploy your sails.  Running is a passion for me and even thought I do not consider myself competitive with expert runners, I am competitive with myself.  I am in the process of training for my first official 10 km organized race.  As I am getting ready, I am filled with doubt if I will be able to finish the race, even though I have completed this distance on my own. 

This morning I had a goal of doing a 5 km run at a slow pace and it's apparent of how my body reacts with this dynamic of the slow pace.  I completed the run easily and with that goal completion I felt a sense of accomplishment that rapidly transfered into a feeling of increasing my value.  I know at the pace I did I can easily double my distance.  I have done the research and I am doing the training for my goal.  This is the hard work and the feeling of finishing my mini goals which ultimately is driving my sense of increasing my value.

Look back at your two goals and how do you feel about a sense of value that relates to your goals.  Measure your value and now increase your value by completing mini goals.