NOTES / Values I try to hold myself accountable to
I value cultivating and articulating a clear vision for my life, standing behind it, and reviewing it often enough to make course-corrections along the way.
I also value allowing space for distractions and contradictions to appear that might challenge or shift the vision.
I value composing Annual Reviews around my birthday every year.
I value practicing the art of productive disagreement when in conversation with people who have different perspectives from me.
I value trying to avoid labeling groups of people unless they explicitly request it.
I value speaking and being my word.
I value being direct but kind and speaking up when I feel something is wrong, even if it potentially disrupts the peace.
I value being the change I want to see.
I value not dilly-dallying if something needs to be done.
I value having good intentions towards people I directly or indirectly impact.
I value de-magnetizing myself from cultural identities I’ve inherited by asking,“What if I didn’t have to be masculine?”“What if I didn’t have to be successful?”“What if I didn’t have to change the world?”“What if I didn’t have to be an expert?”
I value being the maker of my own meaning.
I value making my own advice after consulting others, and then taking it.
I value not feeling sorry for myself and avoiding competitive suffering.
I value rallying others with my vision, even if it’s not perfect.
I value staking my reputation on my better self, then striving to live up to it.
I value living with the consequences who I am, even if they were unintentionally harmful.
I value managing my stress, health, and clarity by consistently eating well, exercising, and getting enough sleep.
I value savoring my mistakes so that I can learn from them.
I value retrying things I don’t like every once in a while.
I value going slow, working hard, and avoiding shortcuts.
I value cultivating quality time with myself, with others, and with my interests.
I value facing things that make me uncomfortable, to learn about the fears I'm holding inside the discomfort.
Changelog
Feb 2022: Minor revisions and re-archived this list on Github.
May 2020: This doc. Changed from“I should” to“I value”. Added the value around de-magnetizing from culturally inherited identities. Added a value around intermittent-continuing.
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