Core Values and Contribution Types

Where I Tend to be Vulnerable and Why

Let's face it, everyone has their weak spots, their undermining thoughts, their occasional slips of logic, and ineffective behavioral responses that are embarrassing, ineffective, and sometimes destructive to ourselves and others.

We have learned that most of these Achilles Heel kinds of mistakes in behavior and attitude most often come out of our most dominant Core Value Energies, out of our most precious and important human energy. As Dan Cox likes to say, "We are most vulnerable when we are operating in our most dominant Core Value Energy."

Bankers have vulnerable heels in their core value, knowledge. Builders lose their strength when they most need their core value, power. Love fails the best of us merchants just when relationships are most in need of thoughtful responses and a little more maturity in our interactions. Innovators, who are most needed for their wisdom and their constant effort to understand and provide solutions, find themselves in a loop of logic and intuitive blocks that make the best of us look a little foolish at times.

This may not be the most fun topic for any of us, but it is one that may help us most to master our own lives and create our greatest contribution. One admonishment: be very slow to say to yourself, "This doesn't apply to me." The only way any of us humans make progress is when we allow ourselves to feel uncomfortable with the way we are choosing to show up. As a last resort to keep yourself honest, ask your spouse or other Core Relationship™ people whether you occasionally display a little Achilles Heel in your daily activities.

We all face situations that make us feel vulnerable, and we respond to those circumstances in ways unique to our particular core value energy profile. This section provides powerful insight about these situations and provides strategies that help guide you forward.

Core Values Learning Styles™

Once we understand a person's core values, we gain great insight into the learning styles of the individual. We know that everyone is able to complete some level of learning in each learning style; but lessons learned in harmony with primary learning styles are far more easily and enjoyably learned than lessons derived from learning styles that do not come as naturally to the individual.

The Four Learning Styles

The learning style of an individual is directly related to his Core Values Profile™. When lessons are provided in a manner harmonious with a person's core values - learning is easy, fun, and long lasting. When lessons are given in a manner that is contrary to learning style, the work of learning is arduous, boring and irritating; it takes far too much energy and disappears as soon as the lesson is ended.

We remember everything that supports our core values. We easily forget anything that does not support our core values. The reason is simple. We are all geared to approach life in a specific and consistent manner, based upon our unique recipe of core values. We all have these same values, but in different degrees. Our life strategy is based upon these core values, and we intuitively know that we develop self-esteem when we work within this value structure, and that we are most likely to succeed in making our contribution when we are functioning in harmony with our core values.

When we are involved in learning things that support and relate directly to fulfillment of our core values, we are filled with enthusiasm, energy and motivation. When these lessons serve our desire to make important contributions to the world, our self-esteem is increased, our confidence is improved and we perform at our highest levels of productivity, creativity and effectiveness. Our desire and ability to learn is inherently increased when the lessons themselves come to us closely aligned with our core values.

Everyone learns new information in their own special way. This learning style is strongly influenced by your specific combination of primary and secondary core value energies. This section provides powerful insight and strategies pertinent to your particular learning style based on your core value energy profile.

Conflict Strategies

Understanding how we react to situations that are counter to our innate, unchanging nature is useful and powerful insight. This section of your full Core Values Index report goes into great detail about how you respond to these situations. Strategies are provided that guide you through them toward greater understanding and more productive interaction with others.