Do You Know Your Personal Values
Do You Know Your Personal Values
Have you ever asked yourself what the real influences of your decisions are? Why you prefer one situation over another? For instance why do you prefer being employed over working on your own? Or is it the other way around? Or why are you living where you are living right now? Why are you with the person you are in a relationship with right now? Its not primarily due to the circumstances or your emotions, especially not when there was a real decision involved. So why are you making these decisions then? The answer lies at the core of your character, of what defines you as a person; and that is your personal value system.
Abundance
Accountability
Achievement
Action
Adventure
Ambition
Awareness
Balance
Beauty
Calmness
Cheerfulness
Clarity
Comfort
Compassion
Competition
Connection
Contribution
Control
Courage
Creativity
Curiosity
Determination
Discipline
Effectiveness
Empathy
Energy
Enthusiasm
Excellence
Fairness
Faith
Fame
Family
Flexibility
Freedom
Friendship
Fulfillment
Fun
Harmony
Happiness
Health
Honesty
Honor
Humility
Independence
Integrity
Intelligence
Intimacy
Inspiration
Kindness
Knowledge
Liveliness
Love
Money
Nature
Passion
Peace
Perfection
Persistance
Philanthropy
Power
Respect
Security
Simplicity
Significance
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Strength
Stability
Success
Status
Teamwork
Tolerance
Tradition
Truth
Vitality
Wealth
Wisdom
1. Select the 10 values from the list above that you like most. (of course you can also do a Top 5 or Top 7) 2. Start with the first in the list. Then order this by importance by comparing two values by asking: Which one is more important to me if I had could only have one and had to compromise the second? Remove the winner and write it on top of a new list and then continue with the remaining 6 on the old list and so on. 3. Do this for all 10 until you have an ordered list of your top 10 values.
2. Inspiration 3. Contribution 4. Health 5. Family 6. Love 7. Creativity 8. Success 9. Truth 10. Integrity
If you like, write your Top 10 (or Top 5) in the comments below! Your value hierarchy expresses your character of course. Someone who values adventure highly is a different character as someone who values stability more. Someone who values success highly is different than someone who values family on top. An interesting exercise is also to create your top 10 negative values, which express what you really dislike or what is totally unimportant to you.
1. Create positive experiences that express this value in your life 2. Decrease experiences that are aligned with the opposite value in your life 3. Also working on your beliefs will make it easier to adapt to new values.
What are your TOP 3 personal values? Write them into the comments below!