Values drive our aims and goals in life. They help us to sort out what is important to us and where we need to direct our focus. Pick your top 5 values for living your life (and another 5 specifically for your business or career). See if, in your current situation, you are truly achieving the life you want with these values.
You can do this by writing down examples of how each of these 5 values appear in your life, at the moment. If they don’t feature in your life currently, write down one step you can take towards achieving this value in your life. The more values you are currently including in your life, the more true to yourself, your dreams and your moral compass you will be.
The aim is to get all 5! Our goals and values change, so it is useful to do this exercise every year.
Acceptance
Achievement
Acknowledgement
Adventure
Aesthetics
Appreciation
Authenticity
Balance
Beauty
Being active
Bliss
Caring
Career
Clarity
Comfort
Commitment
Compassion
Community
Co-operation
Confidence
Contentment
Courage
Creativity
Curiosity
Daring
Dedication
Detachment
Determination
Devotion
Diligence
Discipline
Discernment
Empathy
Empowerment
Energy
Enthusiasm
Excellence
Exciting
Fairness
Faith
Fame
Family
Financial independence
Flexibility
Forgiveness
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Generosity
Gentleness
Goodwill
Grace
Gratitude
Growth
Happiness
Harmlessness
Harmony
Healing
Health
Honesty
Hope
Humility
Humour
Inclusiveness
Independence
Insight
Integrity
Influence
Intelligence
Intimacy
Introspection
Intellectual growth
Intuition
Joy
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Love
Loyalty
Maturity
Money
Nurturing
Openness
Orderliness
Participation
Partnership
Passion
Patience
Peace
Performance
Prosperity
Purpose
Recognition
Relationships
Reliability
Respect
Responsibility
Reverence
Risk taking
Sacrifice
Serenity
Service
Sharing
Silence
Spontaneity
Strength
Status
Support
Success
Trust
Truth
Understanding
Unity