Living an Aligned Life

I once heard a speaker say that stress is the space between what your values are and how you spend your time. This is especially true when you have a job/career that does not align with your values. Working life takes up a huge percentage of our time and quite frankly in these hard economic times, to have a job is most peoples main goal. That being said, many of us have to find fulfillment in our non-working lives. Here is an excercise that can help hone in on what your values are: Write down the five most important things to you, then narrow that list down to three. How can you integrate these values into your daily lives? With the stresses of day to day life, it is easy to overlook our need for personal fulfillment, but I think we could all benefit from a life realignment every once in a while. My top three: Love/affection, Integrity, Courage.