Determine your core values
- Choose from the list below the values that you follow in your own life. What I did is I bolded the values that I felt that I related to and strived to be or ones that my family taught me while growing up.
| Abundance Acceptance Accountability Achievement Adventure Advocacy Ambition Appreciation Attractiveness Autonomy Balance Being the Best Benevolence Boldness Brilliance Calmness Caring Challenge Charity Cheerfulness Cleverness Community Commitment Compassion Cooperation Collaboration Consistency Contribution Creativity Credibility Curiosity Daring Decisiveness |
Dedication Dependability Diversity Empathy Encouragement Enthusiasm Ethics Excellence Expressiveness Fairness Family Friendships Flexibility Freedom Fun Generosity Grace Growth Flexibility Happiness Health Honesty Humility Humor Inclusiveness Independence Individuality Innovation Inspiration Intelligence Intuition Joy |
Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Making a Difference Mindfulness Motivation Optimism Open-Mindedness Originality Passion Performance Personal Development Proactive Professionalism Quality Recognition Risk Taking Safety Security Service Spirituality Stability Peace Perfection Playfulness Popularity Power Preparedness Proactivity |
Professionalism Punctuality Relationships Reliability Resilience Resourcefulness Responsibility Responsiveness Security Self-Control Selflessness Simplicity Stability Success Teamwork Thankfulness Thoughtfulness Traditionalism Trustworthiness Understanding Uniqueness Usefulness Versatility Vision Warmth Wealth Well-Being Wisdom Zeal |
- Then create groups of values that relate to one another and any grouping that has the least amount can be dropped until there are 5 groups of values.
| Security | Acceptance | Appreciation | Balance | Happiness |
| Safety | Compassion | Encouragement | Health | Fun |
| Wealth | Inclusiveness | Thankfulness | Personal Development | Adventure |
| Abundance | Intuition | Thoughtfulness | Spirituality | Humor |
| Freedom | Kindness | Mindfulness | Well-being | Inspiration |
| Preparedness | Love | achievement | resilient | Joy |
| Advocacy | Making a Difference | Wisdom | calmness | Optimism |
| Peace | Open-Mindedness | Caring | collaboration | Playfulness |
| commitment | Trustworthiness | Community | ambition | charity |
| cooperation | Relationships |
- After that choose one word from each group that you like the most or that represents the group. There are no wrong or right answers. The purpose of the exercise is to find the five core values that speak to the values that you follow and live by.
| Security | Acceptance | Appreciation | Balance | Happiness |
| Safety | Compassion | Encouragement | Health | Fun |
| Wealth | Inclusiveness | Thankfulness | Personal Development | Adventure |
| Abundance | Intuition | Thoughtfulness | Spirituality | Humor |
| Freedom | Kindness | Mindfulness | Well-being | Inspiration |
| Preparedness | Love | achievement | resilient | Joy |
| Advocacy | Making a Difference | Wisdom | calmness | Optimism |
| Peace | Open-Mindedness | Caring | collaboration | Playfulness |
| commitment | Trustworthiness | Community | ambition | charity |
| cooperation | Relationships |
- Add a verb to each value so you can see how you would live out the value in your own personal life, for example:
This is my own personal list, but feel free to be creative with your sentences!
Find ways to feel a sense of security.
Seek jobs that allow me to build relationships.
Provide encouragement to others.
Work on your well-being.
Share your happiness.
This will guide you in making decisions and to consider your valus before taking action. (Adapted from https://www.taproot.com/archives/37771).