Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective.

Today's topic explores the difference between values and goals and why it can be helpful to take both into account as you're working toward things you want to achieve. 

Goals, for one, provide a destination, like the end point on a map, which is typically something we want to achieve or experience. 

Values, on the other hand, are more of an internal guidance system, kind of like a compass, telling us what to move toward or away from based on what we believe is important or valuable to us.

So, goals provide more of the "what" or the destination—where we want to end up—while values provide more of the "how" we're gonna get there and the "why," or the motivation to get the destination. 

And this can be important because if we default to focusing more on goals without also considering our values, then we can experience things like burnout or achieve things that feel unfulfilling or empty. 

It can also make it more difficult to achieve a goal because if we don't know why we're doing something or why it's important to us, it can make it much harder to enjoy the process and stick with it. 

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*Disclaimer: The information contained in this episode is for the sole purpose of being informative and is not considered complete. It should not replace consultation with a qualified professional.