Here are three questions for you to think about:

If you could have been anyone in history, who would you have been?

If you could meet anyone from history, or from the current day, who would it be?

What makes you angry?

My husband is a life coach and talks a lot about values. He asks questions of his clients and workshop participants to help them to realize their values, and how they are currently implementing them in their lives.

The answers to the above questions will help you discover your values. For instance, if you chose to be Cleopatra or Mark Anthony, think about which qualities attracts you to these people? Maybe it’s beauty, passion, or the sacredness of those times. It could be the ability to make large-scale changes, or possibly because you want to have others honor who you are.

Each question will draw out more information about what your principles are. Lets say in question two that you wanted to meet Michelangelo. Then one of your values could be creativity, discipline, or esteem. Putting a name to your values will help you to live your life more fully.

The answer to the third question - what makes you angry – will help you to realize which values are important to you. For example, I have always disliked cruelty to animals, people, and the planet. So, I interpret this to mean that some of my values are love and respect.

Make a list of your values. Then choose six that are most important to you. Now look down your new list and grade your values from one to ten. If you are embracing a particular value in your life, then give it a ten. If you have failed to integrate it or procrastinate about it, then give it a lower number like two for instance.

If you have any numbers less than seven, start thinking about how you can make changes in your life to include your values and increase the quality of that value in your life. Living your values means that you are living with integrity and fulfillment. If you are not honoring your values, then you are not honoring your soul.

Lots of good things are happening to me. This month I will be on the radio, and as some of you may already know, my first book will be published Spring 2008 by Beyond Words. It is called, Wishing: How to Fulfill Your Heart’s Desires. Beyond Words are wonderful publishers. They published the New York Times best seller, The Secret, in addition to Dr. Emoto’s work on the Hidden World of Water. I am very excited. If anyone has any marketing ideas do feel free to let me know.

Wishing is a magical concept and something we have all done over the years. Do you remember tossing a coin into a well and making a wish? How about holding a dandelion clock, thinking of your wish and then blowing the seeds into the wind, along with your wish?

These wishing techniques have one thing in common - intention. Behind every successful wish in an intention. You probably thought about what you most wanted, closed your eyes, and then silently made a wish in your mind. But, why not add another ingredient. How about visualizing your wish. Athletes do this all the time. So, the next time you split a wishbone or make a wish on a shooting star, visualize the outcome of your wish and see how that works for you.

My first book, Wishing: How to Fulfill Your Heart’s Desires will be published May 2008 by Atria/Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster.