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It may be a simple question, or it may not be. What are your values? What values guide your choices in life? |
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| Acceptance Accountability Adventure Altruism Appreciation Assertiveness Authenticity Autonomy Awareness Balance Beauty Benevolence Calm Caring Catalyst Charity Chastity Citizenship Cleanliness Commitment Connectedness Compassion Confidence Consciousness Consistency Contentment Contribute Cooperation Courage Courtesy Creativity Critical Thinking Curiosity Democracy Dependability Detachment Determination Devotion Diligence Discipline Discovery Dominance Due Process |
Education Effort Emotion Empathy Endurance Enthusiasm Equality Equity Etiquette Excellence Experience Fairness Faith Fame Family Fantasy Fidelity Focus Foresight Forgiveness Fortitude Free Will Freedom Friendship Generosity Gentleness Giving Gratitude Guiding Happiness Helpfulness Honesty Honor Hope Hospitality Human Dignity Humility Humor Idealism Imagination Impact Independence Individualism Influence Inspiration Integrity Intuition Inventiveness |
Joy Justice Kindness Knowledge Lead Learn Love Loyalty Magnanimity Manners Mastery Mercy Moderation Modesty Morality Nonviolence Nurture Obedience Objectivity Openness Optimism Order Passion Patience Patriotism Peace Perfection Perseverance Perspective Piety Potential Power Prudence Purpose Recognition Respect Responsibility Restraint Risk Taking |
Satisfaction Self-Awareness Self-Discipline Self-Esteem Self-Interest Self-Reliance Self-Respect Sensitivity Service Sharing Simplicity Sincerity Sociability Socialism Spirituality Status Success Sympathy Tact Teach Temperance Tenacity Thrift Time Tolerance Tradition Trust Truth Understanding Unity Unpretentiousness Unselfishness Utility Wealth Well-Being Winning Wisdom Zeal |
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| It’s difficult to narrow down your “Top 3” values, but there are ways to do it—ask several people close to you (family member, co-worker, boss, friend) what they consider your values to be and cross-check them with what you’ve written down. What feels correct to you? In order to lead a fulfilling, authentic life, your values need to be in alignment with your purpose or “North Star.” |
Are they? Often, when life starts to get out of control or there is dysfunction in one or more areas of a person’s life, that’s where our values are being challenged and more than likely, we’re violating them on some level. By being aware of what our values are, it’s much less likely we’ll get in a spot where we’re willing to violate them, and our essential selves. |
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