In this article, we’ll create powerful conscious rules to overcome anxiety, limiting beliefs, and keep us living with an abundance of joy. Expect the exercise to take roughly 20 minutes. As a prerequisite, I recommend doing the Values and the Value Rulesexercises first.

Our minds are meaning-making machines. Every experience we have becomes associated with emotion. Our values act as a lens that filters experiences and sorts them into emotional buckets. We already know what our values are, so it correlates that we can figure out what experiences in our lives trigger those values, and consequently bubble up positive or negative emotions. 

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is a relatively new term used to describe a person’s ability to understand, consider, and consequently influence the emotions of themselves and others. It can be broken up into five main categories: self awareness, self management, motivation + resilience, relationships, and empathy. The tool in this article will help largely with the first two categories, although all of them will be improved to some degree with proper application of the technique

Identifying our values illuminates what is truly important to us. It paves the way for us to live life at the higher end of our happiness spectrum. Don’t YOU want to be happy more often?