Find Your Values

    1. Find a quiet space, disconnect from technology, and bring a pen, a notebook, or paper. Start by questioning what matters most to you in life and write your reflections.

    2. Now identify three individuals you hold in high regard, and going over the list below, circle the characteristics of those people.

    3. With the same list, now circle values that make you take action if you get excited. Discern what propels you to take action. Is it financial security, recognition, stability, influence, altruism, or something else? Pinpointing your motivations will help clarify your underlying values.

    4. Now, look at the list again and circle the words you are most comfortable with behaving this way.

    5. If you have more than five values, eliminate some until you end up with the top five that you most identify with.

    6. Now write how your day would be if it were aligned with the five values you chose.

       a) What would your ideal day look like? (Include small details).

       b) What time do you wake up, what would your breakfast be like, and who would be with you?

       c) What things would you do in the morning, and who would you have lunch with? Always based on your five values.

       d) What would you like to do to get people to pay you, and who would you help with your work?

       e) What else do you do based on your five values?

 

List of Values

Abundance
Achievement
Adventure
Advancement
Affection
Appreciation
Authority
Autonomy
Balance
Beauty
Be True
Boldness
Caring
Career
Challenge
Charisma
Citizenship
Clarity
Commonality
Communication
Community
Competency
Compassion
Connection
Contentment
Contributing
Cooperation
Courage
Creativity
Curiosity
Determination
Diversity
Effectiveness
Encouragement
Endurance
Enjoyment
Entrepreneurial
Excellence
Excitement
Fairness
Faith
Family
Fame
Finances
Fitness
Forgiveness
Freedom
Friendship
Friendship/Relationship
Fun
Fun-Loving
Generosity
Giving People a Chance
Goodness
Grace
Gratitude
Growth
Happiness
Harmony
Home
Honesty
Humanity
Humor
Influence
Inner Harmony
Innovation
Invention
Involvement
Integrity
Intelligence
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Love
Love of Career
Loyalty
Meaningful Work
Openness
Optimism
Order
Patience
Peace
Personal Development
Pleasure
Poise
Popularity
Power
Pride in Your Work
Professionalism
Prosperity
Quality
Recognition
Reciprocity
Religion
Renewal
Reputation
Respect
Responsibility
Security
Self-Respect
Service
Speed
Spiritualism
Spirituality
Stability
Status
Strength
Success
Teamwork
This Too Shall Pass Attitude
Trustworthiness
Trusting Your Gut
Wealth
Wellness
Willingness
Wisdom
Work Smarter and Harder