Shifting our Focus from Task-Oriented to Values-Oriented Living

A simple method to help you see you are doing enough

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We live in a task-oriented society. Our days are guided, and decided, by our to-do lists. It is only when we can check off every single item that we are allowed to feel that we spent our day well. We have been taught that our value as human beings rests in our ability to get things done.

I have spent a lifetime using various charts, planners, lists and strategies that will keep me ‘on task’, reaching toward that golden ring of a perfectly executed list guaranteed to make me feel accomplished and worthy. None of them have ever worked. They have all left me with the feeling that I am not enough, and if experience proves itself out, according to these methods, I will never be enough.

I decided recently that I need a way to organize my days that feels good to me — that actually works. More importantly, I want a system that will honor who I am and affirms my value. I want a method that will gently lead me through my days, giving me the sense that I am fulfilling my purpose here on earth, and not just ‘getting things done’.

This is when I decided that the problem with all the methods I have tried before is they are all task oriented. Maybe the structure I need is value oriented…