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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2734: You Are Always Living Your Values by Eric Teplitz

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Eric Teplitz reminds you that you're always living your values Episode 2734: You Are Always Living Your Values by Eric Teplitz Eric Teplitz has had a lifelong fascination with human motivation, creativity, personal development, and living an inspired, rewarding, and positively impactful life. To this effect, he routinely undertakes challenging endeavors that intrigue him and impel him to grow. He has recorded an album of original songs and started his own record label to put it out into the world; acted onstage in community theater productions; backpacked over 500 miles of the Appalachian Trail; completed numerous half marathons, marathons, century rides, and triathlons (including an Ironman triathlon, after three attempts); volunteered hundreds of hours in a hospital playing music for patients (and their families/visitors/hospital staff); overcome a long-standing aversion to needles to become a regular blood donor (for nearly ten years and counting); and is the author of over 100 posts on Eric’s Inspired Living Blog. He is passionate about helping others open themselves up to a more expansive sense of what is possible; overcome resistance to following their interests, passions, curiosities, and dreams; and achieve a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and life satisfaction. The original post is located here: https://inspiredlivingblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/you-are-always-living-your-values/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2734.

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You are always living your values by Eric Teplitz of Eric Teplitz.com and I'm Justin

0:10.2

Malik, your very own personal narrator.

0:12.6

Hello old friend, not me calling you old, old stands for Optimal Living Daily.

0:18.0

This is where read articles to you the best I can find and get permission from so they

0:21.7

can have a little dose of positivity, inspiration, motivation or happiness each and every day.

0:28.4

So that was get right to another post and start optimizing your life.

0:36.5

You are always living your values by Eric Teplitz of Eric Teplitz.com.

0:43.2

A couple of years ago I attended a workshop during which we participants were asked to choose

0:48.4

from a list literally hundreds long are top 10 values.

0:53.5

After doing this we were then asked to prioritize our final answers.

0:57.4

I was frustrated and overwhelmed by this exercise feeling like there was no way I could

1:01.6

possibly do it in the a lot of time we were given.

1:04.8

I also wondered afterwards even if I worked on this long enough to get to a point where

1:09.4

I was relatively satisfied with my answers how accurate would they really be?

1:14.8

How would I be able to make the distinction in other words between my purported values

1:19.4

and my actual values?

1:21.5

I may claim to love one thing more than another say courage far above security or comfort.

1:27.8

But what if my day-to-day behavior viewed unflinchingly reflected otherwise?

1:33.8

I came to the conclusion that we are always living our values, our actual ones whether or

1:40.2

not we like them or willing to accept the truth of them or are even fully aware of them.

1:46.4

For instance if we claim to value our connection with others above all else but we spend five

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