Clarify Your Values

[The_Liquid_Laser]

This is an exercise to help you clarify what your values are. This will allow you to live your life with a greater focus on the things which are most important to you. Here is how it works. Below is a list of words. You may wish to print this list out, though you don't have to.

First, go through the list and circle or write down any word that taps into some internal passion. Some words you read may seem important, but they don't really grab something inside of you. Ignore these types of words and only circle or write down the ones that really grab you. After you've gone through the list you should have about twenty words that give you a good gut reaction.

Next look at your list of about twenty words and narrow down the list to the five most important values to you. These are the five values that really resonate the most with you when you examine who you are and who you want to be.

Lastly reflect upon your life. Look at how these values are expressed. Look how you can work to bring your main values into your life more. Remember this is an exercise about clarifying your values and giving them focus in your life.


Accomplish
Accuracy
Achievement
Acknowledgement
Adventure
Aesthetics
Affection
Assemble
Attain
Attract
Authenticity
Be holy
Be devoted
Be honoring
Autonomy
Beauty
Build
Caring
Challenge
Change
Collaboration
Community
Competition
Compassion
Comradeship
Connectedness
Contribution
Creativity
Design
Directness
Discover
Economic Security
Edify
Educate
Elegance
Embody mastery
Embody Excellence
Empowerment
Energize
Enlighten
Experiment
Excellence
Excitement
Family happiness
Feel good
Focus
Forward the action
Freedom
Free spirit
Friendship
Free time
Growth
Guide
Harmony
Have fun
Have Impact
Health
Help others
Help Society
Honesty
Humor
Improve
Independence
Influence
Inform
Inspire
Integrity
Intellectual status
Joy
Knowledge
Leadership
Leisure
Lightness
Loyalty
Model
Minister to
Nurturing
Orderliness
Participation
Partnership
Peace
Performance
Personal power
Perfect
Persuade
Pleasure
Power
Precision
Prepare
Productivity
Realize
Recognition
Relate with God
Relationship
Responsibility
Risk
Romance
Self-expression
Set standards
Service
Spirituality
Stability
Stimulate
Strengthen
Success
Synthesize
Teach
Touch
Tradition
Triumph
Trust
Uncover
Unity
Uplift
Vitality
Wealth
Win over
Wisdom
Zest

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

This is an exercise I did myself several years ago. I've had people ask me about it on the forums, so I've finally gotten around to posting it. My five values are

Challenge
Collaboration
Creativity
Have Fun
Trust

 

[NewEra]

My top most important values:

Freedom
Free time
Have fun
Health
Peace

 

[chickpea]

i like this!

it was really hard for me to narrow it down, especially since a lot of the ones i picked were pretty repetitive, but my 5 were:

discover
feel good
free spirit
honesty
unity

 

[Sniffles]

I think we already did this in one thread started by Proximo.

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

i like this!

it was really hard for me to narrow it down, especially since a lot of the ones i picked were pretty repetitive, but my 5 were:

discover
feel good
free spirit
honesty
unity

Yeah I found that it took me quite a while to narrow it down to just five.

 

[Walking Tourist]

Adventure
Creativity
Free spirit
Health
Joy

I like this! These are the values that mean the most to me.

 

[Quinlan]

Adventure
Beauty
Caring
Design
Discover

 

[Charmed Justice]

unity
enlighten
wisdom
harmony
integrity

 

[Snuggletron]

Aesthetics
Creativity
Free time
Humor
Knowledge

 

[KDude]

Beauty
Community
Compassion
Humor
Pleasure

^I may actually be an ESFP.

 

[Chloe]

Creativity
Connectedness
Freedom
Free spirit
Independence
Inspire
joy
participation

 

[LeafAndSky]

Change
Directness
Lightness
Synthesize
Touch

Thanks. Useful.

 

[Spamtar]

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you... and to hear the lamentation of their women!

 

[Chloe]

Thanks. Useful.

ey!!! Those arent on the list

 

[LeafAndSky]

And I see from your list that you're math challenged.

 

[wolfy]

Authenticity
Creativity
Friendship
Have Impact
Humour

 

[Oaky]

Embody mastery
Empowerment
Enlighten
Intellectual status
Spirituality
Uncover
Wisdom

An extra 2 wouldn't make much of a difference.

 

[Unkindloving]

Affection
Friendship
Growth
Self-expression
Trust

 

[KDude]

Embody mastery
An extra 2 wouldn't make much of a difference.

You're ruining it!