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Values Exercise

This exercise helps you discern your top values. Generally it is good to identify around 5.

Begin by circling all the values from the attached list that resonate as important to you. Then start to group words with similarities as a way of narrowing them down. Choose 5-6 values that seem to most accurately describe how you live your life. Add your own value(s) if it is missing from the list.

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To help identify your top values, consider these questions.

  • What helps me feel most grounded?

  • What is most important to how I choose to live my life?

  • What enables me to be the best version of myself?

  • When do I feel most connected to what’s important to me?

  • What would be missing in my life if I didn’t have this value?

Once you have your top values list, answer these questions.

  • What are 2-3 behaviours that support this value?

  • What behaviours or actions can derail you from living according to this value? 

  • What is an example of a time when you were living fully into this value?

  • What people in your life actively support this value?

     

List of Values

  • Accountability

  • Achievement

  • Adaptability

  • Altruism

  • Ambition

  • Authenticity

  • Balance

  • Beauty

  • Being the best

  • Belonging

  • Boldness

  • Career

  • Caring

  • Challenge

  • Cheerfulness

  • Collaboration

  • Commitment

  • Community

  • Compassion

  • Competence

  • Competitiveness

  • Connection

  • Consistency

  • Contentment

  • Continuous Improvement

  • Contribution

  • Control

  • Cooperation

  • Correctness

  • Courage

  • Creativity

  • Curiosity

  • Decisiveness

  • Democraticness

  • Dependability

  • Determination

  • Dignity

  • Discipline

  • Discretion

  • Diversity

  • Effectiveness

  • Efficiency

  • Empathy

  • Enjoyment

  • Enthusiasm

  • Environment

  • Equality

  • Excellenece

  • Expertise

  • Fairness

  • Faith

  • Family

  • Financial Stability

  • Fitness

  • Focus

  • Forgiveness

  • Freedom

  • Friendship

  • Fun

  • Generosity

  • Goodness

  • Grace

  • Gratitude

  • Growth

  • Happiness

  • Hard Work

  • Harmony

  • Health

  • Honesty

  • Honour

  • Hope

  • Humility

  • Humour

  • Inclusion

  • Independence

  • Ingenuity

  • Inquisitiveness

  • Insightfulness

  • Integrity

  • Intellectual Status

  • Intelligence

  • Intuition

  • Joy

  • Justice

  • Kindness

  • Knowledge

  • Leadership

  • Learning

  • Legacy

  • Love

  • Loyalty

  • Making a difference

  • Mastery

  • Merit

  • Obedience

  • Openness

  • Optimism

  • Order

  • Patience

  • Perserverance

  • Positivity

  • Power

  • Preparedness

  • Pride

  • Professionalism

  • Quality-orientation

  • Recognition

  • Reliability

  • Resourcefulness

  • Results-oriented

  • Self-actualization

  • Self-control

  • Self-reliance

  • Selflessness

  • Service/Volunteerism

  • Shrewdness

  • Simplicity

  • Speed

  • Spirituality

  • Spontaneity

  • Stability

  • Status

  • Stewardship

  • Strategic

  • Strength

  • Success

  • Support

  • Teamwork

  • Temperance

  • Thankfulness

  • Thoroughness

  • Thoughtfulness

  • Timeliness

  • Tolerance

  • Trustworthiness

  • Truth-seeking

  • Understanding

  • Uniqueness

  • Unity

  • Usefulness

  • Vision

  • Vitality

  • Wealthy

  • Well Being

  • Wisdom