21 Days of the Hartman Value Profile

A little heads up, recap and personal update

Coming to you in this exact spot, but in shorts. Because outside work days are numbered through the rest of the year.

I ended the last article with the riveting notice that coming up next, you could expect the “nitty-gritty details of People, Work and Strategy judgment on the World-side.”

That sounded so blahhhh that I immediately put off writing it for the next five months. The truth is that I only write consistently when I am really having fun with the process.

So while I respect the complexity and seriousness of the material that I am writing about, I am making adjustments and shifts to my process so that I enjoy writing it. As a result, I think you’ll enjoy reading the stuff more, too.

Over the next 21 days, I’m going to break down each of the 42 measurements on the Hartman Value Profile. My goal is to keep it simple and straightforward while providing the information you need to decide how the HVP would help you most.

The amount of information available in a report is both amazing and overwhelming. We’re going for a tip-of-the iceberg tour with a side of practical ideas for real life.

With this information available to you, you will know better than anyone else how it’s most helpful to you, with or without a personal report.

A quick recap, because it’s been a hot second.

• The HVP measures the individual parts of our insanely complex decision making process, based on what we consider most important and valuable.

• The term “judgment” when we’re talking about good judgment is about how you make decisions, solve problems, and practice discernment and wisdom. It’s not about morals–it’s about strong thinking.

• Within a HVP report, there are three types of thinking. They’re sort of like modes of thinking. People mode, work mode, and strategy mode.

• There are two parts to the report. The internal Self-side and the external World-side. For example, there is an indicator that measures how much information you take in from the outside world and a measurement for how much information you notice about your internal world.

The Hartman Value Profile is a tool that measures different aspects of how we think. With this information, we can use it in the specific way that is needed in our own, very unique lives.

We can use it to dislodge ourselves from the ruts where we feel stuck, where we are going in circles and doing the same thing over and over again, without really moving forward.

We can use it to create sustainable changes, in small steps, over the next year. Steps that feel doable daily but shift the tectonic plates of our thinking so that this time next year, we almost forget what it was like to deal with some of the challenges we’re dealing with today.

We can use the HVP to determine, in real time, where we are in alignment around how we think and make decisions, and where we might be off course.

We can also use it to look honestly at what we are doing, day after day, to participate in creating the life we’re currently living.

Obviously, using it as a tool to face ourselves isn't for the faint of heart. It’s challenging. For me, it’s the most difficult work I do, but also the most rewarding. It keeps me becoming more of someone I like being.

On my end, I’ve been using the foundational ideas from the HVP in everything from client work to website updates to my home reno projects and fermented hot sauce experiments and it’s been really fun. 

Laying out the HVP indicators as a resource feels really important but when it’s finished in the next few weeks, I’m already thinking about how to share more of the everyday projects I’m doing, and how I’m using the ideas in the HVP to make the processes really fun, even when they’re also challenging.

Thanks for being here for it all!