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Personal Beliefs, Values, Basic Assumptions and Attitudes Understanding What Drives You and Others |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Inventor, Author & Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"What you believe about yourself is what happens to you." |
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The clearer you are about what you value and believe in, the happier and more effective you will be. Beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things really are, what we think is really true and what therefore expect as likely consequences that will follow from our behavior. Values are about how we have learnt to think things ought to be or people ought to behave, especially in terms of qualities such as honesty, integrity and openness. Buddha's Path To Liberation From right understanding proceeds right thought; 
from right thought proceeds right speech; from right speech proceeds right action... More Stray Birds By: Rabindranath Tagore "Let this be my last word, but I trust in thy love."... MoreWhat Do You Believe About Yourself? Many of the limitations you face in life are self-imposed. What you believe about yourself can keep you locked behind your fears or thrust you forward into living your dreams. "We are what we think," said Buddha. "Change your thinking, change your life," said Ernest Holmes. "If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right," said Mark Twain. You become what you believe you are. Combine Your Life Vision & Life Strategy To get the most out of life, ask yourself if you have both a vision and a strategy. Think about your vision for your future – Do you really know what you want to achieve? Have you really thought about who you want to become? And what about your strategy for getting there – Have you set goals? Have you made plans for success? Clarifying both your vision and strategy will help maximize your motivation and your success, not to mention your health and happiness… MoreThe Power of Positive Beliefs What you create through your thoughts is a belief system, and that belief system is ultimately what determines whether you live a successful life. The key to changing your belief system is changing your thoughts. Orison Swett Marden wrote in How to Get What You Want, "Stop thinking trouble if you want to attract its opposite; stop thinking poverty if you wish to attract plenty. Refuse to have anything to do with the things you fear, the things you do not want." Instead you must think rightly about those things you want to attract. Mark Shearon once posed a very enlightening question to a telephone audience, "Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?" Read that sentence again and read it carefully. It's not a play on words. Marden goes on to write this passage about how much our thoughts influence the outcome of our life: "How often do we hear it said of some man, "Everything he undertakes succeeds," or "Everything he touches turns to gold?" Why? Because the man is constantly picturing to himself the success of his undertakings and he is backing up his vision by his efforts. By clinging to his vision, by vigorous resolution and persistent, determined endeavor he is continually making himself a powerful magnet to draw his own to him. Consciously or unconsciously, he is using the divine intelligence or force by the use of which every human being may mold himself and his environment according to the pattern in his mind." Define and Prioritize Your Values The first step is to clarify your values. You ask yourself, “What values and virtues do I most admire and wish to incorporate in to my life?” If you want to discover your strengths in the work world, first you would define your values as they apply to employment. Often, both companies and individuals will choose values such as integrity, quality, respect for others, service, profitability, innovation, entrepreneurship, and market leadership.2 The second step is to use those values to define your position with regard to your life and work. The values you choose, and the order of priority you place on your choices, will determine your approach to your life and work. Six Universal Values
Your
emotional intelligence helps you understand how emotions run your life
and the lives of those who need what you have. Your ability to master the
study of emotions is really no more then understanding the
value
systems that people have. And there are six values
that behavioral psychologists agree are fundamental to all human beings.
These six values are universal to every human being living today…and in the
past…and in the future.5 Basic Assumptions Basic assumptions are our long-learnt, automatic responses and established opinions. We are, ourselves, almost always unaware of the nature of our own basic assumptions, but they are enacted through our behavior - what we say and do. Basic assumptions are usually rooted in our infancy, early family life and social context. More widely, assumptions shaping our behavior relate to cultural context (See East versus West: Philosophy and Cultural Values) Your Beliefs Have a Direct Impact on Your Health Researchers of two American Universities found that your beliefs have a direct impact on your body and health – because your beliefs actually alter your body's chemical balance.4 It really means that what you regularly think has a direct impact on your health and your body. Because what you regularly think is what you end up believing. Change the way you think, you change your beliefs and you change your life. Yes you can actually improve your life and your body by having a positive attitude and a positive belief system. With that in place you'll live a healthier, longer life. Attitudes are the established ways of responding to people and situations that we have learned, based on the beliefs, values and assumptions we hold. Attitude become manifest through our behavior.
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