Defining Your Values: Step 1: Identify The Times When You Were Happiest
Defining Your Values: Step 1: Identify The Times When You Were Happiest
How and why did the experience give your life meaning?
Excellence
Excitement
Expertise
Exploration
Expressiveness
Fairness
Faith
Familyorientedness
Fidelity
Fitness
Fluency
Focus
Freedom
Fun
Generosity
Goodness
Grace
Growth
Happiness
Hard Work
Health
Helping Society
Holiness
Honesty
Honor
Perfection
Piety
Positivity
Practicality
Preparedness
Professionalism
Prudence
Qualityorientation
Reliability
Resourcefulness
Restraint
Results-oriented
Rigor
Security
Self-actualization
Self-control
Selflessness
Self-reliance
Sensitivity
Serenity
Service
Shrewdness
Simplicity
Soundness
Speed
Cooperation
Correctness
Courtesy
Creativity
Curiosity
Decisiveness
Democraticness
Dependability
Determination
Devoutness
Diligence
Discipline
Discretion
Diversity
Dynamism
Economy
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Elegance
Empathy
Enjoyment
Enthusiasm
Equality
Humility
Independence
Ingenuity
Inner Harmony
Inquisitiveness
Insightfulness
Intelligence
Intellectual Status
Intuition
Joy
Justice
Leadership
Legacy
Love
Loyalty
Making a
difference
Mastery
Merit
Obedience
Openness
Order
Originality
Patriotism
Spontaneity
Stability
Strategic
Strength
Structure
Success
Support
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankfulness
Thoroughness
Thoughtfulness
Timeliness
Tolerance
Traditionalism
Trustworthiness
Truth-seeking
Understanding
Uniqueness
Unity
Usefulness
Vision
Vitality
Tip:
If you have a tough time doing this, consider using Paired
Comparison Analysis to help you. With this method, you
decide which of two options is most important, and then
assign a score to show how much more important it is.
Since it's so important to identify and prioritize your values,
investing your time in this step is definitely worth it.
When you consider your values in decision making, you can be sure to keep
your sense of integrity and what you know is right, and approach decisions
with confidence and clarity. You'll also know that what you're doing is best for
your current and future happiness and satisfaction.
Making value-based choices may not always be easy. However, making a
choice that you know is right is a lot less difficult in the long run.
Key Points