The Foundation of Core Values | ReWire 1911

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I had an event at my office

It wasn't my event somebody we rent our space here so somebody threw an event here

And they asked me if I would speak at it and it's part of the contract I agreed to come down and and speak

So I go down stage and I speak at this event and nobody knows who I am which is awesome

That's my favorite type of event to speak at because if nobody knows me

I get a bunch of new friends, right? So I go down there and I speak and I ask them about core values and none of them had an

Understanding of them they were all business owners

But none of them had a true understanding and I resonated with that because I'd heard the term core values

My whole life you need to have them. We had them in like seventh grade football and then you need to have them in the workforce and there

There was those motivational posters in my old mortgage office with a drip and it was like motivation because you need it

Which is hilarious because if you go to the kitchen here in my office it says motivation

And then it says if at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you, right? That's how we're rolling here by the way

But I say this because in 2018 I met a man named Andy forcella absolutely changed my life

And he taught a group of us in his RTA program about core values and sometimes somebody can say the right combination of words

It'll unlock a closed mind and Andy did that for me that day and I came back

I designed some core values for my corporation

I started governing not only my company, but my life my kids my marriage my employment everything by these four simple core values

And guess what the value of everything I had went up when I decided what it was that I truly value four things

Responsibility integrity service and excellence when I decided that I value those four things

And I put the most value in those four things in my life

In every area of my life I run those four things my life became more valuable

Not just made more money financially my relationships became more valuable

My employees became more valuable my children became more valuable my marriage became more valuable

Why because I understood what I valued and then I leaned in and made those values more valuable

So if you're wanting to make a huge change in your business in your life you need to develop core values

But here's how you develop core values. This is what I learned from Andy

I never take credit for something that's not an original thought. This is I learned from Andy

You have to figure out what it is you truly value see a lot of times people will make up shit

If you don't value integrity then don't make it your core value

If you don't value excellence, which means we do the work

If you don't value working hard in personal excellence

Don't say it because it sounds good because when you're trying to teach it to your people

It will come off inauthentic and they won't value it either

If you value making money make that a fucking core value

If you value being physically fit make that a core value

Whatever it is there's no wrong answer

And it's not the feel good core values that matter

It's deciding what you value then leaning in and making those things more valuable

That will actually make the core values work for you

So discover what it is that you actually value

Own that shit and get others around you

Find others around you who value the same thing become unstoppable