My Core Values Flashcards
Growth
T: I am curious in nature and always seek to understand how things work.
That is why I loved sailing as a kid.
E: Learning how to best trim your sail to make most use of the wind forces to be as fast as possible. A reason why I started my career in Industrial Engineering and Business Management.
O: I love the process of learning, of stimulating my brain with new information. I always seek new challenges.
Purpose
T: “You cannot be everything you want to be but you can be everything you are.
Finding your purpose is not about aiming at what you believe would make you happy but listen to your heart to realize what is it you can bring to the world. It is already inside of you. Just a matter of looking at a mirror and removing all the dust to be able to see the real essence of your soul.”
E: My purpose arrived into my life out of curiosity for the world at the age of 11. At that age I had the chance to go to a summer camp to meet up with 10-12 different delegations from countries around the world as my parents believed it would be a great learning experience for me. You could chose between different options: from staying in Germany, Europe, or the farthest South America at this time. I chose the farthest I could possibly go because I wanted to explore the world. Since then I want to help connecting cultures, because at that age I understood that if you are able to make friends with people who are in all senses different to what you are used to, the world would become a more peaceful place. And obviously, my dreamjob was to become a stewardess. Since now almost a decade ago my purpose started to evolve towards health awarenesss and caring about the environment.
O: “My purpose is: Spreading my life all over the world helping to inspire-, protect - and connect it.
Inspire - through my healthy lifestyle (Vegan, Minimalism, Zero Waste) I am known by my friends to eat the healthiest and making conscious consumer choices and as such positively influence my surroundings.
Protect - my playground the ocean (via being an activist at Surfrider Mami Chapter, leading the Rise Above Plastics Program)
Connect - through unlocking meaningful conversations and fostering cultural understanding. Literally providing the most important assets to airlines to be able to remove physical boundaries by bringing people to places.”
Freedom
T: “The most obvious situation for you to identify your values, is when someone or some context prevents you from living them. When you feel that inner frustration and finally understand the reason behind.
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E: The pandemic made me realize that having the freedom to chose where to travel, to visit my family and friends who live on the other side of the atlantic in Europe, is super important to me. It goes beyond the sense of freedom in the grand scale of things, down to the freedom and autonomy to do the work in the way I feel is more productive, freedom to work from home or in the office etc. For me freedom is being able to chose within a certain framework, but not simply adhering to specific instructions. There are people who need to be shown the objective and the way to get there, and people who just need to be shown the objective and they’ll find their way on their own. I belong to the latter one.
O: Making sure I live in a place and have the resources to be able to chose where to go freely. I deliver best when the objective is clear and I have the freedom to chose my own way to achieve it.
Connection
T: “At a certain point in time you realize that real connection is much more meaningful than just meeting/socializing with people. You want to surround yourself with people who lift you up. I value quality over quantity when it comes to human connections.
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E: Right when I moved to France and got to know new people I went to a picnic with a few new friends I recently made. I remember very clearly still today that there was one women complaining about everything and I literally felt that she was dragging my energy out of my body. Since then I tune into what effect people have on me. Looking for those that lift you up and not drag you down.
O: I strive to have meaningful conversations with everyone I meet and to be part of a community. When I meet someone new I seek to discover that magic to find real connection on a deeper level.
Mindfulness
T: “The ocean is my playground. I exercise almost every watersport there is: Surf, Kitesurf and Sailing to name few.
As I love playing in the ocean, I have a strong motivation to protect it.”
E: I get in a bad mood whenever I see unnecessary use of plastic entering my life.
O: I am mindful with our environment and always seek for sustainable solutions. Surfrider Rise Above Plastics Coordinator. Surfrider foundation is a network of passionate activists in local coastal communities working towards protecting and enjoyment of our worlds ocean, waves and beaches. Founded in 1984.
