EP 195: Define Your Personal Values: What Do You Really Stand For After 40?

Why are personal values important for men over 40?

Personal values are the principles that define what matters most to you and help guide your decisions, priorities, relationships, health, and behavior. After 40, clearly defining your values becomes increasingly important because your time feels more finite, your responsibilities change, your parents age, your body changes, and you begin thinking more seriously about how you want to live the years ahead.

The key is understanding that values aren't simply what you say is important. Your behavior provides the evidence.

What You'll Learn

• What personal values actually are and why every man should define his
• Why your values become your internal compass when life gets complicated
• The difference between claiming a value and living a value
• Why your behavior is the real evidence of what matters to you
• How losing my father forced me to think differently about possessions, character, and legacy
• Why family, service, and responsibility made my decision to move in with my mother clear
• Why health should become one of your core values after 40
• How your food, workouts, mobility, sleep, recovery, medical care, and stress management reveal whether health really matters to you
• Why taking care of your health is also an act of service to your family
• How to choose your five core personal values
• How to identify the gap between the values you claim and the life you're actually living
• Why closing that gap can help you live with greater integrity

Timestamps

00:00 - Define Your Personal Values

00:30 - Going Through My Parents' Home After Losing Dad

01:10 - What Happens to Everything We Accumulate?

01:45 - The Things Your Family Can Never Put in a Box

02:14 - What Are Personal Values?

02:45 - Do Your Actions Match What You Say Matters?

03:15 - Why Family Made My Decision to Serve My Mother Clear

03:45 - Your Values Become Your Internal Compass

04:19 - Why Health Should Be One of Your Core Values

05:00 - Does Your Lifestyle Prove Your Health Matters?

05:48 - Why Values Matter More After 40, 50 and 60

06:20 - How Do You Want to Live the Years You Have Left?

06:45 - Choose Your Five Core Values

07:15 - How to Test Whether You're Actually Living Your Values

07:39 - The Over 40 Alpha Action

08:15 - The 30 Day Values Test

08:45 - Close the Gap Between What You Say and How You Live

09:47 - Your Actions Make Your Values Real

10:15 - Final Thoughts and Over 40 Alpha