“Those who have a WHY can bear with almost any HOW.” Our values shape the purpose behind our lives. Learn how they can be our biggest motivator for action.
Garrett Westerwelly uses his background in sport and performance psychology to help people realize the importance of mental skills. Those who have a why can bear almost anyhow.
The importance of values and how they kind of dictate the direction of our life and our actions. It all starts with self awareness of what your values are. The next step of determining your values is determine what actions manifest from those values.
It's really important to understand the why of values and why they're important. In future videos, we're going to talk about the actual process or the how of setting those values. Thank you again for listening, and we'll see you later.
What's up, Cadre family? My name is Garrett Westerwelly, and for those of you who don't know me from my previous videos, I use my background in sport and performance psychology to help people realize the importance of mental skills and help their minds work for them rather than against them. So I think today what I really want to start with is a powerful quote that maybe you've heard, maybe you haven't. But the quote is, those who have a why can bear almost anyhow. Again, those who have a why can bear almost anyhow.
I think it's super powerful because it all goes into the topic that I want to address today, which is values and the importance of values and how they kind of dictate the direction of our life and our actions. So, again, those who have a why can bear almost any how. I think when you have a clear set of values or clear mission statement or purpose in life, it kind of determines your actions and makes the process that much more simple. So today I want to talk about the importance of values, sort of the why behind them.
And then in a future video, we're going to talk about the how of how to actually set those values because that's important, too. But it all starts with self awareness of what your values are, which, again, we'll get to soon of how to actually do that. But starting with self awareness, it makes your actions a lot more clear cut. Because action without a clear knowledge and awareness of your values is directionless. If you let your feelings and emotions and thoughts dictate your actions, then you're just going to ride that rollercoaster of wave of thoughts and emotions that dictate your actions.
Whereas if you let your values speak to your actions, it's a lot more clear and a lot more simple for you. All right? So that's. You need the clear values to kind of provide that direction. And also a key component is it's not just setting the values, it's taking the action upon those values. So, like I said, my background is in sport and performance psychology. And a lot of times I'll see coaches, teams, leaders, really just general cultures and organizations think that, all right, let's have a session and set our goals or set our values for what we want this team to be or this season to be.
And they think, well, if we have one session where we talk about our values and we write it down, then we're good. We have values, we have a clear culture. That's not the case. You actually need to take action upon those values. Seen it too many times where a coach will. All right, I want my team to be the most competitive team in the conference. Let's write compete on a board or put it in the locker room. All right, we got a team of competitors now. No, you just have a sign that says compete. That's all you have.
You don't have actual clear cut action. So the next step of determining your values is determine what actions manifest from those values. There's a lot of great examples of how that can affect you. So, for example, for me, I currently work at UC San Diego, and in a job that I'm super passionate about. But to be honest with you, it's unpaid. It's completely unpaid. So I'm dedicating almost 30 hours a week of my time to a position that is unpaid. It's also a two hour round trip drive and commute every day in southern California to San Diego.
That's on a good day. If it's 2 hours, usually it's two and a half to three. So all of that unpaid spending money on gas, all that stuff, and then also just doing kind of tasks that, you know, whether it be picking up trash or helping out other coaches or other co workers, all that stuff might seem, on paper, like, why are you doing that? Well, it's because my value is, I want to have a meaningful career where I get to impact people, specifically collegiate student athletes and high performers. So because I get to, you know, I get that value fulfilled in my actions, in my job.
It makes it easy. Again, he who has a why or those who have a why can bear. m. In traffic because I have a why. It's a very clear why, and I want to make an impact on performers. So that's how it works for me. And it gives you, I think, values. One of the biggest reasons why they help is that they. They really help provide the motivator for a lot of things. So, for example, if you're going through a tough workout, good. That gives you an opportunity to practice discipline, if that's your value, or hard work or fitness.
If you have, you know, a tough or a tough conversation that you want to have with someone and you're holding off on it, good. That's an opportunity to practice communication and trust and honesty. So, again, it all goes back to your values, and it makes hard things a lot easier. So, again, I'll close with that quote again of he or those who have a why can bear almost anyhow. And today I just wanted to get it in our heads that it's really important to understand the why of values and why they're important.
And in future videos, we're going to talk about the actual process or the how of setting those values. So thank you all for listening. And I know values are an important thing for us all, and they're all individualized. Thank you, Luke and Jen, for commenting. Appreciate you all for listening. Hopefully it's a good start to your Monday, or good mid part of your Monday going forward. And again, we'll talk more about the why of setting those values, but it's really important. And again, I'll close it with it one more time.
That powerful quote that I open with those who have a why can bear almost anyhow. So thank you again for listening, and we'll see you later.
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