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

THE DETERMINANT OF PERSONALITY
Both your choice of values and the order of your values are critical
in determining your personality and your life. Here is an example.
Imagine that two people have each been through a values clarifica-
tion exercise and settled upon the same three values. Only the order
is different.
Person A has decided that his top three values, in order of im-
portance, are first, family; second, health; and third, career success.
This person is saying that he puts his family ahead of his health and
career, and his health ahead of his career. This means that if he has