How do we navigate our career path and personal lives with choices that lead to meaning, impact, and happiness? Values. It's our flashlight and compass to life. Mental Model Each day there are many choices of where to spend your time, how to show up, and situations that will test your soul. Some people will try to influence and confuse you with their agenda and not care about what is important to you. Life can get complicated, and you will walk through the darkness as you contemplate how to make tough choices. The decisions on what career path to pursue and what relationships to strengthen or abandon influence the quality of your life. Values are your flashlight and compass to guide you down personal and professional paths. Internalizing your values will calibrate your compass and trigger emotions of joy or frustration as a feedback signal. Staying the course for what you believe in will be tested. You will live your best life when you practice the behaviors that reinforce the essence of a value. People will respect you when they know your actions align with your beliefs. Daily choices become efficient and authoritative when values are crystallized in our minds. Know your values and seek people and organizations that reinforce your deepest beliefs.