Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

ORGANIZE YOUR VALUES
Once you have defined your values, you should organize them in or-
der of priority. To start, you need only three to five key values to cre-
ate a foundation for your character and personality. These are the
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values that you personally consider to be more important than any
others. The order in which you arrange your values is terribly im-
portant as well. This ranking of values largely determines the kind
of person you are, and the kind of life you live.
Everything you do is the result of a choice. You are constantly
making choices of one kind or another, to do one thing or to do
something else. This ability to make choices distinguishes you from
all other creatures. Each choice you make is based on your primary
values at that time. Each action is based on what you consider to be
the most important value at that moment of choice.
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