Your Personal Values List
Which of these characteristics do you possess that may help (or hurt) your chances of living a fulfilling life?
It may surprise you that there is no unique set of attributes that decides if you will be a success or a failure. In fact, that’s what makes your core values so great – they only belong to you!
By choosing as many of the following personal values from this list that you feel you most resonate with, you’ll have a developed meaning of what defines you and how to get what you want out of life.
If you have trouble choosing, I highly recommend reading The Values Factor by Dr. John DeMartini.
(Or enjoy it for free with an Audible.com Free Trial.)
Choose 10 Values:
Grab a pen and notepad and figure out 10 values that resonate with you most. You are encouraged to add any that are not on this list.
| Abundance Accountability Accuracy Achievement Adventurousness Altruism Ambition Assertiveness Balance Being the best Belonging Boldness Calmness Carefulness Charity Challenge Cheerfulness Clear-mindedness Commitment Community Compassion Competitiveness Consistency Contentment Continual Improvement Contribution Control Cooperation Correctness Courtesy Creativity Curiosity Decisiveness Democraticness Dependability Determination Devoutness Diligence Dignity Discipline Discretion Diversity Dynamism Economy Effectiveness Efficiency Elegance Empathy Enjoyment Enthusiasm Equality Ethics |
Excellence Excitement Expertise Exploration Expressiveness Fairness Faith Family-oriented Fidelity Fitness Flexibility Fluency Focus Freedom Fun Generosity Goodness Grace Growth Happiness Hard Work Health Helping Society Holiness Honesty Honor Humility Hygiene Imagination 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 Patience |
Perfection Piety Positivity Practicality Preparedness Professionalism Prudence Quality-orientation Reliability Resourcefulness Restraint Results-oriented Rigor Security Self-actualization Self-control Selflessness Self-reliance Sensitivity Serenity Service Shrewdness Simplicity Solitude Sophistication Soundness Speed Spontaneity Stability Strategic Strength Structure Success Support Teamwork Temperance Thankfulness Thoroughness Thoughtfulness Timeliness Tolerance Traditionalism Trustworthiness Truth-seeking Understanding Uniqueness Unity Usefulness Vision Vitality Volunteering Worthiness |
Prioritize Your Personal Values
They are all important to you to have made it into your top 10. This will be a difficult step, but order them with the most important value at the top of the list, and the least important at the bottom. Dig deep and try to recall moments where you had to make this decision in the past.
Values For The Soul
Chances are that your top 3 personal values have specific memories attached with them. Use this to your advantage to relive similar moments by choosing a life that will allow this to happen.
For instance, if a top value is to be unique, don’t fall into a 9-5 job routine wearing a suit and tie like everyone else.
Instead, position yourself as an eccentric freelancer with the ability to make your own hours and enjoy not-so-common hobbies such as skijoring, noodling and bouldering.
What Defines You
As promised, feel free to download the Personal Values Worksheet. I’ve attached a bonus section in there!
Be sure to comment below with your unique personal values!
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