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The Self - Contract

Certainly you found some surprises when you completed your values grid. Now is the opportunity you have to ‘correct’ one of those surprises. Find a value that turned out to be surprisingly weak and write a self- contract to try to correct it.

A self- contract is pretty much as it sounds; you put in writing what you are going to do, and then how you are going to reward yourself when you do it. For example, I was not happy with how “God” scored on my values grid, so one thing I could to do to help that situation is to write a self- contract that might go something like this: “ I will read the Bible 15 minutes a day for two weeks. Upon completion of this contract I will reward myself by going to the movies.” You get the idea. Psychology and Business Schools tell us that you should look at the contract every day. Putting it on the refrigerator works for a lot of people, but I am not going to require you to do that, I don’t that is practical for many of my students. Simply write a self- contract.

In the unlikely case that there is no need to improve your value grid results, you need to write a self -contract anyway. Find some way to improve yourself. Gain weight. Lose weight. Exercise more. Stop smoking. Stop drinking. Wear your seat belt more. Read more. Be nicer to people, you get the idea.

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