Selfyontology
Serious self-study, taken lightly.
Tag: core values
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Core Value #5: Spirituality I wanted to be near water when I sat to write about spirituality, and because today is a rare day off school that I’m also kid-free—I get to do just that. I parked my car view a water view and pulled out my laptop. The movement and forms of water have…
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Core Value #4 Meaningful Work There are differences between a job, an occupation, a career, and your vocation. When I talk with kids about their futures and the world of work, I usually describe them like this: One of my top five core values, as determined by my most recent values sort, is meaningful work.…
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Core Value #3: Honesty It’s Sunday evening and I’m fresh back from a weekend at the river cabin where we stay for a dear friend’s birthday weekend each winter—lots of natural beauty and very little phone service, which was a timely rejuvenation treatment for my soul. I did a little pre-writing for this post, sketching…
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Core Value #2: Friendship Last post was all about autonomy. Today, we’re moving on to friendship in this core values reflection series. In my office at school, there is a beautiful print featuring one of my favorite quotes. “We are all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass. We’re all on a journey, walking…
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Core Value #1: Autonomy Instead of intimidating myself into continued procrastination—I’m choosing to just start writing. I was doing overwrought mental gymnastics trying to thematically group my top five values into just a couple of longer posts—something cohesive, reflective, meaningful. I imagined going back through time with each value (honesty, spirituality, meaningful work, friendship, and…
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Clarify your most important values using this free online tool. You’ve felt the dissonance before—that awful pulling in your heart or loud clanging in your mind or persistent twisting of your gut—when some part of your life doesn’t line up with who you really are, what you really want. That’s the feeling of incongruity—living a…
Written by Stephanie Tell
Stephanie writes to cope, to process, and to build small cairns along her life. She is a public school counselor, mom, partner, gardener, home-maker, friend, and someday author. Selfyontology is her first writing project with a larger intention: one year of structured curiosity and strategic investment in her most important relationship—the one with her Self.
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