What’s on Your Menu? How Core Values Define Your Life

–Lessons from Restaurants 

My youngest daughter and I bond around food.  We both like to cook.  At one time she had planned to go culinary school until she realized she had to deal with fish.

She is over it now but there was a time dealing with fish was out of the question. 

The essence of a restaurant is based on the menu.

The menu is what brings people to a restaurant or turns people away. I notice when staying at resorts, the restaurant will put a readable menu outside the door before you walk in.

This menu without saying a word to a potential customer brings them in or turns them away.

A restaurant uses the meal description and the price to determine the type of customer they want. 

They know their food is not for everyone. They know who they want in their restaurant.

My question is what is on your menu?  Not for your business but for you.

Your menu is your core values.  Your core values are your standards.  It's a description of who you want to be and how you want to live.  On the right side is the price or should I say the value each of the core values has within your life.

Your core values or menu should determine what or who you let in your life.  Your core values should be on display and repel those that do not align,

Not aligning does not mean their or your values are bad.  They are just different from yours.

Here are some of my value statements.

• Purpose over Passion

• Be a part of the solution, not the problem

• Wisdom is the cheat code of life

What’s on your menu?

Take a moment and think about it.

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Until Next Time…

Major