Balancing Priorities
One of the primary ways values and intentions manifest in life is through priorities. Knowing your priorities, remembering them under pressure, and acting from them are essential skills for living authentically.
Cultivating an Attitude of “As Best I Am Able”
You can enhance the degree of well-being you experience in your life by committing to and cultivating an attitude that focuses on your effort rather than on the results of that effort. We call this "as best I am able" practice.
Making Major Life Changes
Bringing mindfulness to the longings and impulses that lead you to make major life changes provides a method for consciously and skillfully working with the complexity of moving in new directions in your life.
Ten Values Associated with Well-Being
Just as we have outer priorities in our lives that guide us in our decision-making and setting goals, we have inner priorities, too. The values that we live by can be considered our inner priorities and they guide us in how we implement our outer priorities. These are ten values particularly beneficial to developing an enduring sense of well-being.
Making Skillful Decisions
Applying mindfulness to decision making leads to clearer thinking and to staying connected to your core values, which is crucial to your peace of mind. Mindful decision-making enables you to go beneath the surface level of your moment-to-moment life experience, which is clouded with emotions, to see the truth of what is happening.
Five Kinds of Decisions
Naming the type of decision you’re trying to make will help bring clarity to the process.