“Your intuition already follows your values system you just might not realize it yet. By understanding what is driving you, it allows you to remain curious through the process and explore all those silly, little, weird, crazy ideas.” ~ Deanna Frances
First Phase
Deanna was in corporate insurance industry for 12 years and then became a 1099 consultant. Deciding she didn’t want to be tired to one revenue stream or one company, she decided to really explore curiosity. From here she started two small businesses, a corporate health coach and a plant-based chef).
During the last couple of years that she was in the insurance industry Deanna set out to dive into creativity, learn from like-minded women who were exploring their curiosity and taking action. This led her to begin her podcast, Lean Into Curiosity Podcast.
Second Phase
After a year of podcasting, Deanna has learned and taken imperfect messy action to create a business around discovering values and applying them to both your personal life and business.
Every business has a set of core values and those values came from a person, a leader within the organization.
Values
Deanna believes your intuition is following your values. You are making decisions based on your values, but you just might not realize it yet. It isn’t until you hone in on the feelings of those values that you identify what’s holding you back, what’s making you not feel good about a certain area of your life, but you first have to determine what’s important, why it’s important and how you can apply it to your life.
Start with applying values to little decisions in your life. This will filter into the major, life changing decisions you have to make.
As you change, reevaluate your values and what’s driving you to make decisions.
Identifying Your Values
Listen to Episode 2 of Lean Into Curiosity Podcast.
Choose from the list of 200 words that represent core values. Follow your intuition and circle 20 to 30 words. From there, identify overlap between the words. This will permit you to narrow your choice down to 3 to 5 words.
Applying Your Core Values in Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurship life lends to more balance. Being able to structure your work-life around your family life and the times your most creative and most effective.
“You can’t effectively serve people if you are not first in alignment with your core values.” – Robyn Graham
Your core values will help you align with the people you work with and the projects you work on. You want to attract clients who appreciate and respect your core values. This will help you have effective client relationships. It’s important to convey your core values to attract clients that align with you.
When you attract clients that align with your values, you’ll have more balance, feel more productive, and more success with each client.
Balance
Achieving balance is one when one area of your life is not overshadowing another. It is empowering to understand what balance is to you specifically.
Book Recommendations that Tie into Values
You’re Not Lost by Maxi McCoy
Adventures for the Soul by Sara Kaiser
The Universe has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein
Intuition Follows Values
Start following your intuition and recognizing your values when making small decisions and let this guide you to how often following your intuition works out for the positive or the negative. Take note and adjust accordingly.
This takes work and tracking the outcomes will empower you to make bigger decisions using your intuition.
Learn more about Deanna and Connect with Her:
Website: www.leanintocuriosity.com
Access Deanna’s Personal Values Guide – Choose, Define and Align
Instagram: @iamdeannafrances
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