What matters and is important to me? How Values Can Give Us a Sense of Direction in Life

This is a topic that comes up frequently in sessions with clients and always sparks a very interesting conversation about values. Values are useful to explore for several reasons. Understanding Values vs. GoalsFirstly, it’s important to think about what values actually are in this context and how they are different to goals. A metaphor can be helpful for this – values give us direction, like a compass point, whereas goals are more like the destination that the direction gets us to. When we act i