Navigating life's storms: A guide to your inner compass

 When values and beliefs are at loggerheads, who should we side with? Our principles or our instincts?

Our lives are shaped by:
Inner forces (values and beliefs) and
Outer forces (circumstances and survival skills)

Consider life as a voyage, and these 4 as invisible forces steering it:
Values are your "North Star". (direction, purpose)
Survival skills are the boat. (the vessel that keeps you afloat)
Beliefs are your lenses (the way you interpret your surroundings)
Circumstances create the storm (what tests your journey)

Herein lies the paradox.
Without the north star, you drift haywire with no direction.
Without the boat, you will definitely sink.
Without the right lenses, you misread the surroundings and lose your way.
Without surviving the storm, you never get to sail again.


When values and beliefs clash or the weather is stormy.
Remember to save the boat first, polish the lenses next,
then look up and realign to your north star.

In a furious storm, what good is a north star
If you are at the bottom of the ocean?

Survival keeps you alive.
Your values give it meaning.

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