I am delighted to welcome back Dr. John D'Martini to the podcast to talk about the fundamental

importance of understanding and aligning with your personal values. Values are what's most

meaningful and motivating to each of us individually. They drive our priorities, our decisions

and our actions in life. Yet so often we're not fully aware of our true values and we get caught

up in things like societal expectations or superficial desires. Now John shares a powerful way

to honestly assess your values by looking at how

you actually spend your time, your energy and your money. He explains how aligning your life

with your highest values leads to greater fulfillment, productivity and prosperity. We also explore

the role of authenticity, so truly valuing yourself

and your unique gifts. And ultimately, the key theme that really emerges is the importance of

embracing reality as it is rather than how you think it should be.

Dr. de Martini, it's a pleasure to see you again. I've got to ask how you are. You look very well.

I'm doing good. I can't complain. It was a challenge getting on to the thing because of my tech

ignorance. Which, as I said to you, is rather apt because I want to talk about delegation and

aspects of your way of

approaching these things. Before we dive into all that, I want to say it is a pleasure to have

you back. I so enjoyed our conversation last time we spoke about the inseparability of opposites

and recognizing that what you react to in others is something you deny on yourself, which I think is

very powerful and a really deep and important insight. So I'm very grateful for that. And today I want

to talk or at least start on the fundamentals, some of the fundamentals of your work.

So starting with values. Now, I've spoken about values with various people, but I'm interested

how you would define values. Okay. Whatever is important to you, whatever you want to import

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