Jonathan Reitz grew up hearing the message that he’s worthless and not likely to amount to much, even when he somehow knew he was capable. The message and the disconnect of it led to depression, which, when combined with his addictive personality, led to years of alcoholism. Through acceptance of himself and deep inner work, he overcame his depression, and he used his addictive personality to drive a career through radio and television to become a leader in the coaching community.
More recently, he was diagnosed with ADHD and learned to embrace his divergent thinking that prevents him from staying focused on something for very long, but gives him the ability to solve big challenges creatively.
Through therapy, input from people around him, and self-reflection, he lives a life driven by his values: generosity, investment, catalyzing, hope, and uniqueness.
Learn more about Jonathan Reitz’ work:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jonathanreitz/
Website: jonathanreitz.com
FLUXIFY: fluxify.net
Weatherhead School of Management: weatherhead.case.edu/executive-education/subjects/weatherhead-coach-education
To learn more about your host, Stan Ajemian:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stanajemian
Website: beingthechangecoaching.com
Below is a list of values, beliefs, or personal characteristics for your consideration. Each of the steps in this process will help you identify which are most important to you and which are guiding principles in your life. It is difficult to choose, of course, because many of these values and characteristics will be at least somewhat important to you. It is also hard to choose because you might find yourself thinking, “I should value X and put it first on my list,” even though it really isn’t. So, force yourself to choose, and choose based on your true feelings, not the “shoulds” in life.
You might find it useful to determine degrees of importance by imagining how you would feel if you were forced to give up believing in or acting on a particular value, belief, or personal characteristic. Or, think about how you would feel if your life really revolved around certain values, beliefs, or characteristics. How would this make you feel? Sometimes, you might find it helpful to consider two values at a time, asking yourself if about the relative importance for one over the other.
List of Values, Beliefs, or Desirable Personal Characteristics:
Accomplishment
Achievement
Adventure
Affection
Affectionate
Affiliation
Ambitious
Assisting others
Authority
Autonomy
Beauty
Belonging
Broad-minded
Caring
Challenge
Cheerful
Clean
Comfortable life
Companionship
Compassion
Competent
Competitiveness
Contribution to others
Conformity
Contentedness
Control
Cooperation
Courageous
Courteous
Creativity
Dependable
Disciplined
Economic
Security
Effective
Equality
Excitement
Fame
Family happiness
Family security
Forgiving
Free choice
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Genuineness
Happiness
Health
Helpfulness
Honesty
Hope
Independence
Improving Society
Innovative
Integrity
Intellectual
Involvement
Imagination
Joy
Leisurely
Logical
Love
Loving
Mature Love
National Security
Nature
Obedient
Order
Peace
Personal Development
Pleasure
Polite
Power
Pride
Rational
Recognition
Reliable
Religion
Respectful
Responsible
Restrained
Salvation
Self-controlled
Self-reliance
Self-respect
Sincerity
Spirituality
Stability
Status
Success
Symbolic
Taking Risks
Teamwork
Tidy
Tender
Tranquility
Wealth
Winning
Wisdom
Others:
10 Most Important Values:
Finally, rank each of your five most important values, beliefs, or characteristics, with “1” being the most important value to you, to “5” being the least important of these five important values.
McKee, A., Boyatzis, R. E., & Johnston, F. (2008) Becoming a resonant leader. Harvard Business Press