When I was much younger (a time when I thought I was invincible) I had one significant incongruent value. That was the value around my physical health. At barbecues or off-site business meetings I would tell the world that my physical health was important. However, I lived a different paradigm. I was all talk and no behavior. It wasn't until about two years ago that my mouth, mind and heart came together. I won't bore you with my routines for physical health, but I am in the best shape of my life.<\/p>\n
Keep in-mind that incongruent values don't make you a bad person, but they do reveal that something is "off" in your life. The choice to do something about it is totally up to you. I took action when the storm clouds started to gather. Funny how time and reality conspire to move us.<\/p>\n
When I wrote Waking Up In Corporate America<\/a>, my urgency around doing what I say increased dramatically. I wanted to make sure that I was living up to the coaching I was dispensing. We all need mechanisms in our lives to drive accountability.<\/p>\n Marshall Goldsmith<\/a> has a great post on Why We Don't Do What We Say<\/a>. Marshall's perspectives are spot on. The ideas are not new, but give a needed reminder of how important our actions are.<\/p>\n Remember, life is a limited time offer. You won't get a do-over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was much younger (a time when I thought I was invincible) I had one significant incongruent value. That was the value around my physical health. At barbecues or off-site business meetings I would tell the world that my physical health was important. However, I lived a different paradigm. I was all talk and no behavior. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,123,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-leadership-development","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}