RENEW's Principles:
Sometimes you can't move ahead 'til you fix what's broken. Through renewing---rediscovering core values---people
regain energy, optimism, resilience and effectiveness in their personal and work lives. And the world is a better place.
These principles guide RENEW's work
- Renewing begins by affirming values.
Values define meaning in life and motivate action.
- Gaps between values and behavior are sources of
depletion and signals that it's time to renew.
- When people renew, they enhance the vitality of their work,
families, friendships and communities.
- When people weave renewing into their daily lives, they gain
resilience and add to their capacity to change and grow.
- Renewing is best done in good company. Conversations,
sharing stories, encouraging and validating one another are powerful catalysts for positive change and
growth.
- Renewing allows people to discover that they already possess
many of the answers and much of the wisdom they seek.
- Renewing also allows people to discover that while they can't
always control their circumstances, they can choose their attitudes and responses.
- Renewing gives people greater access to the sizeable
reservoirs of talent, courage and creativity that are within them.
- One's sense of humor is a sensitive barometer. The more
people are able to see humor in life and to laugh at themselves, the less they need to renew. And vice
versa.
- Rest, reflection, risk-taking, learning and exercise are
essential ingredients of renewing.
- Speaking, writing and artistic expressions clarify values
and make it easier to be true to them.
- Renewing would be hard work if it weren't so
enjoyable.
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