VALUES DISCOVERY EXERCISE



  1. Look at the list of words and choose about ten that appeal to you. Go with your first gut response. If you want to add a word of your own that is not on the list, please do so.
  2. Now choose your top three words. These represent your top three values. Take your time (this can take up to ten minutes). Notice how you sorted the words to come to your final top three.
  3. Jot down your top three. What do these words mean to you? Really take some time to feel how they touch you emotionally and intellectually.
  4. Reflect on the events of your life to identify when and where these values took root.
  5. Now go deeper. What personal story wraps around these words? What people influenced you in some why to choose these values? What events catalyzed your choices?
  6. What does it feel like to live your values at work and at home? How does it affect your ability to make decisions? How does it affect your relationships?
  7. What is it like when you are not living your values fully? What is the quality of your decision making? What is the quality of your relationships at home and at work?
  8. What can you do to strengthen your ability to live from your values? When will you do this?


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Close relationships
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Competition
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Cooperation
Country
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Effectiveness
Efficiency
Ethical practice
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Excitement
Expertise
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Fun
God
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Helping others
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Humor
Improvement
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Influencing others
Inner harmony
Integrity
Intellectual status
Involvement
Job tranquility
Knowledge
Leadership
Leisure
Learning
Location
Love
Loyalty
Magic
Meaningful work
Merit
Money
Nature
Being around people who are open and honest
Order
Passion
Patience
Personal development
Physical challenge
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Public service
Purity
Quality of what I take part in
Quality relationships
Respect
Religion
Reputation
Results
Security
Self-Respect
Serenity
Service
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Spiritual Focus
Stability
Status
Supervising others
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