What Is Your Value?

Where do you find your worth?I’ve never met anyone who didn’t want to feel valuable and loved. Some people I’ve met feel valuable because of what they do for work. Maybe they’re mechanics, doctors, servers or anything else. Some people feel valued because they have a loving spouse or good friends. While these things do contribute to our value in small ways, they are not sufficient enough. Here’s what I mean—if your value comes from your job, it can be crushed by losing your job or by getting sick and not being able to work. If your value comes from your spouse, he or she may leave you or change in some way; your friends may desert you and turn against you.When these things happen, our sense of value can be shaken and then we start looking for other things to boost our value or we work harder or we compare ourselves with other people or groups and tell ourselves that we are much better than they are in order to feel good about ourselves. Or we even give in to despair telling ourselves “