When you’re trying to determine your values it might be helpful to have a reference list of common values which you can reflect upon and using a scale of 1 to 10, rate your values. The values with the highest scores are the most important to you, greatly affecting who you are, what you do, the decisions you make, and how you react in certain situations.
Rate each on a scale of 1 to 10.
Acceptance Accomplishment Accountability Accuracy Achievement Adaptability Alertness Altruism Ambition Amusement Assertiveness Attentive Awareness Balance Beauty Boldness Bravery Brilliance Calm Candor Capable Careful Certainty Challenge Charity Cleanliness Clear Clever Comfort Commitment Common sense Communication Community Compassion Competence Concentration Confidence Connection Consciousness Consistency Contentment Contribution Control Conviction Cooperation Courage Courtesy Creation Creativity Credibility Curiosity Decisive Decisiveness Dedication Dependability Determination Development Devotion Dignity Discipline Discovery Drive Effectiveness Efficiency Empathy Empower Endurance Energy Enjoyment Enthusiasm Equality Ethical Excellence Experience |
Exploration Expressive Fairness Family Famous Fearless Feelings Ferocious Fidelity Focus Foresight Fortitude Freedom Friendship Fun Generosity Genius Giving Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Growth Happiness Hard work Harmony Health Honesty Honor Hope Humility Imagination Improvement Independence Individuality Innovation Inquisitive Insightful Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intensity Intuitive Irreverent Joy Justice Kindness Knowledge Lawful Leadership Learning Liberty Logic Love Loyalty Mastery Maturity Meaning Moderation Motivation Openness Optimism Order Organization Originality Passion Patience Peace Performance Persistence Playfulness Poise Potential Power |
Present Productivity Professionalism Prosperity Purpose Quality Realistic Reason Recognition Recreation Reflective Respect Responsibility Restraint Results-oriented Reverence Rigor Risk Satisfaction Security Self-reliance Selfless Sensitivity Serenity Service Sharing Significance Silence Simplicity Sincerity Skill Skillfulness Smart Solitude Spirit Spirituality Spontaneous Stability Status Stewardship Strength Structure Success Support Surprise Sustainability Talent Teamwork Temperance Thankful Thorough Thoughtful Timeliness Tolerance Toughness Traditional Tranquility Transparency Trust Trustworthy Truth Understanding Uniqueness Unity Valor Victory Vigor Vision Vitality Wealth Welcoming Winning Wisdom Wonder |
When you’re in the process of determining what your key personal values are, the top three or four are the most important as having the most impact and influence on your life, how you live your life, the decisions you make, and how you respond to the challenges and obstacles you may face amidst your life’s journey.
Until now, all this has been going on seamlessly in the background of your life without your having to be cognizant or aware of it. Once you know what your top three or four key personal values are, you can more quickly make decisions accurately by determining which option(s) are more in alignment with who you are.
This enables you to take a more active role in your life, rather than just going through life as a passive passenger, you can take the wheel and put yourself in the driver’s seat.
This changes the look-and-feel of your life immensely, changing the journey exponentially from this moment forth.
Get ready… You’re in for the ride of your life!