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

ACT ON YOUR VALUES
When you choose, your higher-order values always take precedence
over your lower-order values. Every act you take, every decision you
make, is based on your dominant value at that time.You can do only
one thing at a time, and you always have to choose what it is going
to be.You always choose what is most valuable to you at that partic-
ular moment.
How can you tell what your values are? It’s simple. Your values
are only and always expressed in your 
actions
. It is what you 
do
rather than what you 
say
that tells you, and others, what you value
most. Especially, it is what you do 
under pressure
, when you are
forced to choose, that reveals your true values and beliefs about
yourself and the world around you.
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