Are you in Alignment with your Values?

By Angeli Marie Shaw

Being in alignment with your values means that your decisions, actions and overall behaviour consistently reflect what you consider to be the most important and meaningful in your life. Essentially, you’re living according to your core principles and beliefs. When you’re in alignment, your daily choices line up with your values, leading to a feeling of fulfilment and a strong sense of authenticity. And it feels good!

An important part of this process is getting clear on what your values actually are! Values are the beliefs and principles that guide your words, actions and decisions. Think of them like your moral compass, acting as your guide. Values apply in both life and business, with your personal values being more predominant, therefore influencing the formation of your work ones.

Now ask yourself, are you being, doing and saying what’s in alignment with your own values?

To determine this, you need to reflect on whether your daily actions and decisions consistently reflect the values you hold personally, ensuring that your conduct aligns with your personal ethics and beliefs.

Not sure or don’t know where to start? Consider these

- What are your personal values? Clearly define what is most important to you in your personal and professional life. Examples of these may be honesty, integrity, sustainability, social responsibility, teamwork or innovation.

- Analyse your business practices. Look at your daily work choices, interactions with your team mates and customers and your decision-making processes to see if they align with your stated values.

- Evaluate workplace culture. Assess whether your business values and mission statement resonate with your personal values. Don’t have a mission statement? CREATE ONE! This provides a summary to staff as well as an opportunity to share with your clients what you’re all about.

Are you clear now? Or are you unsure? Here are some signs that you’re in alignment

- Feeling fulfilled and motivated in your life and work. Your actions align with your values, and you feel a sense of purpose and satisfaction in what you do.

- Your making ethical decisions consistently. You prioritize doing the right thing even when it’s challenging.

- You openly communicate your values and feel comfortable discussing your values with family, friends or staff without fear of repercussions.

If you’re still unsure, you may be misaligned. Here are some signs

- You’re experiencing internal conflict and stress. Your actions may be contradicting your values, which creates feelings of guilt or discomfort

- You’re compromising your principles. You feel pressured to make decisions that go against your ethical standards.

- You’re disengaged from work. You’re having feelings of disconnection due to a lack of living by your values

So, what can you do if you feel you’re not aligned? Start by having open conversations. Discuss with those you trust in your personal life, or even your team so you can explore potential solutions or adjustments that you can make. This opens up opportunities for change! Even if significant changes are not possible in the short term, consider small steps, they will all lead to the same destination, regardless how long it takes.

To reiterate, when our actions and behaviour support whats important to us, we are focused on our values and living in alignment. Get clear, be consistent and really focus on whats important to you so you can then take the steps that you need to support your choices. Reaffirm what you strongly believe in, prioritise top values and remember, you can always change your mind, after all, much like most things in life, it’s a work in progress, as are you.

As always, I believe in you!

Love & Bliss, Angeli xxoo

Angeli is a former salon owner and Holistic Empowerment Coach, Mindset Mentor/ Trainer and founder of The Bliss Coach. To work with me 1:1, organise group training or book me as a speaker in 2025, get in touch by visiting www.theblisscoach.com.au or follow me on my socials @theblisscoach to connect and find out more.