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I am having some difficulty with my action plans for universal values. I don't have any problems for developing them for my practical values. Those seem pretty straight forward. But when developing action plans for things like "Honesty" and "Self Discipline" I have difficulty. I have a couple of ideas for self discipline....

1) Limit myself to one hour of television per day

2) Resist unhealthy urges and instead focus on my values

But that's all I could come up with. Does anyone have any ideas that help you develop action plans for universal values? Thanks

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Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story...who you chose to be....

You first need to decide on making Proactive or Reactive action plan. From there, look at a universal value and get specific with it. You mentioned Honest so with that it might look something like...

Proactive Action Plan - Be honest with my wife:
* I will be honest with my wife
* I will endeavor to have a "check in" with my wife about my honest emotions and feelings
* If there is an activity that I would not want my wife to know about, I will avoid it
* If there is something that my wife is doing that I do not like, I will honestly let her know (not that she is expected to stop doing it)
* etc and so on

Reactive Action Plan - Be honest with my wife:
* I do something that I do not want my wife to know
* I stop what I am doing
* I discuss what I did with my accountability partner/sponsor/therapist and what I should tell my wife
* I let my wife know what I did, that I stopped it, that I checked in with my accountability partner, that I will try not to do it again
* I assess what I did, what I was feeling at the time, the consequences, and record this for future prevention
* Etc and so on

You could do this with Health, Love, etc. Just think of a value, and how a situation in the past might have played out and how the new you will play that same situation out.

Hope that helps.