Values Affect – Your Work: Clients / Followers You Attract: The Way That You Conduct Yourself And Your Business

Values Affect – Your Work: Clients / Followers You Attract: The Way That You Conduct Yourself And Your Business

 

In my mind I know right from wrong and for a long time I just assume that everyone else just knew what’s up. So, whenever I saw someone do what I thought was wrong; I called them out on it.
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

I now know that was me projecting my values on to them. I figured it out when a friend called me out, on half steppin’ on a job I was doing for myself. Yes! I knew better and I was gonna do it any way.

I had burned a CD of my graphic art work and the name on the sticker on the CD didn’t match the name of the file on the burned disc. It was my last disc and I was going to turn it in for a chance to win a studio space downtown in the city I lived in.

My friend said “if the small things don’t matter to you, then you don’t value yourself; because you know that this would bother you if you did this for a client.”

Yes! It would! My name is my work, my work represents my name and quality work is very much a part of my brand. So, I went out, got new discs, made the changes and won the studio space! Yay!

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

If you’re willing to put out bad or subpar work for yourself, people may think that you don’t care about yourself and if you don’t care about yourself then you may also not care about them. The work you do for others, do it for yourself also. You’re worth it and it shows others your value and your values.

Values Can Support And Energize Your Work

When your values are aligned with your work you will find that they help and give momentum to what you’re doing.

If you have a value of doing things by standards that are in place then everyone you work with will know this standard.

When your values are aligned with the people you work with, you will be happy. The more you can align your values with your work or business the happier you will be.

“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.”
― William Shakespeare

Values Influence Your Style

Your values will influence your work, be it graphics, writing, how you interact with others and your leadership style. If you value authenticity you’re likely to love original work, putting out original work and being around people who don’t mind being themselves.

“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” ― Turcois Ominek

Your values can form a following or you could follow someone because of their values and the value that they provide.

Good leaders are usually very self aware, have a strong sense of their values and act from an understanding of their values.

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
― Roy Disney

So, let’s say that the work you produce has attracted a following. You’re now a leader! Yay! What value do you provide? What are the values that your followers look for?

When we know what we value and what our values are we’ll make better leaders to our followers and produce great work that shares an appreciation.

I love it when people understand, want and appreciate my work.
When you become a leader or maybe your already are one, consider your own values and how they may be influencing your work, style and the potential impact of this on your followers as a whole.

Social Experiment:

Check out 5 of the people you follow. For each person look them up 5 times, that’s 5 different social media platforms for each person. You’re looking for consistencies in their values. Let’s say you follow Gary Vaynerchuk (I Do!) You’ll look at his Blog, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. This is just an example you can search any 5 platforms you like. Now answer what are his values? Do your values line up? What value are you getting from him?

I follow Gary Vaynerchuk. What I got when I did this social experiment – He’s consistent! When he says “Do The Work!” He means it and does it himself.

What I got from his values – He value’s smart and hard work and he appreciates people who does the same.

Our values lined up – I also value doing a good job right and now also doing for myself as well.

The value that I get from him – Every time he says “Do The Work” I feel like he’s talking to me, when he says “If you don’t know what something is look it up.” I do it. The value I get from Gary is that I feel like he gets me moving towards my goals faster.

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Author: Ericka Bates

Hello! I'm Ericka Bates. I am a wife and mother of 2. Totally nosey with the ability to read. Therefore a great researcher. Things I like to look into autism treatments, health, meditation, and personal development. In much of my findings with autism, stress came up a lot. Stress turned out to be the cause for most health problems. Know what can defeat stress? Meditation! Meditation is not only a great way to get rid of stress, but it's also used to reduce anxiety, depression, anger, lower blood pressure and increase your creativity. There are many forms of meditation and right now I am actively practicing 4. I sit quietly and watch my breath. At first this was hard. My mind kept wondering, I was sitting in thought. Now my mind still wonders some, but I think that I'm getting the hang of it. Hey, practice makes perfect right. Walking is my favorite form of meditation. I listen to a podcast while walking and when I'm done I feel relaxed. Gratefulness or Gratitude is another good one. When I get upset, I stop and think okay, what's five things that's good about this situation. This calms me down and makes me feel better. Like the saying goes happiness is a choice and I wanna be happy. Happiness just doesn't show up you have to produces that kind of energy for yourself. Visualization is the fourth form of meditation I practice. I have a vision board with pictures of the things I want and the things I want to do. The pictures are fun to find, cut out, arrange, pin up and their nice to look at every day. Because your only choosing the things you like and want to do makes this form of meditation a joy to have in your life. It wasn't hard making meditation a part of my every day life. Now I feel that meditation is the foundation to anyone's personal development. Hopefully you'll find a form or forms of meditation that's just right for you too.

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