Values
to Live By
Core Values are your deeply held beliefs that foster happiness and security in your relationships, home environment, and professional life. It's common for your values to clash with those of others around you, making it essential to recognize what genuinely excites you about each day. What elements contribute to your feelings of joy, pride, and overall satisfaction? For true happiness, it's vital to live in harmony with your Core Values, rather than feeling resentment or regret for sacrificing your beliefs. It can be difficult to separate societal expectations ("shoulds") from what truly matters to you.
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The Power of Knowing You comes from understanding your personal values, offering the insight and bravery to make significant life choices. Clearly defining your Core Values will help you pinpoint what is most important to you.
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To get started, ask yourself these questions:
1, What is really important to you?
2. What matters to you most?
3. What's not negotiable?
4. What makes a good person?
Try to identify the top five to six values that you wish to prioritize and live by. Let your top five to six marinate for a while. Analyze and evaluate them to ensure they are your values and not values you may have been conditioned to believe are values.
Eventually, when it feels right, narrow down your Core Values to 2 or 3 that resonate
with you deeply.
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This list of words will help you get started. Have fun with this exercise!
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Successfully completing or contributing to visibletasks, goals, and projects.
Achievement
Getting ahead and aspiring to higher levels incareer or personal development
Advancement
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Adventure
Engaging in new experiences and discoveries thatmay involve risk and testing limits.
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Aesthetics
Having the desire for beautiful surroundings, artisticexpression, and sensory pleasure.
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Assertiveness
Confidently speaking beliefs and setting personal boundaries.
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Balance
Feeling stable and grounded.
Challenge
Testing and hopefully conquering what feels dangerous or difficult.
Community
Having neighbors, coworkers, or a society who help each other achieve common goals.
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Competence
Being good at what you do, leading to feeling confident, capable, and effective.
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Creativity
Finding new ways to do things, composing, and dis-covering what was not seen before.
Courage
Bravely standing up for self or others even when doing so might be uncomfortable, risky, or painful.
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Environment
Respecting the earth and living in safe, comfortable spaces.
Ethics
Honoring practices and principles that govern behavior. Fairness-Respecting everyone's rights and removing prejudice and favoritism in words and actions.
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Family
Taking care of and spending time with relatives and other people you feel close to.
Freedom
Ability to make one's own decisions and choices.
Friendship
Having close companionship and ongoing and supportive relationships.
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Fun
Loving to do what brings amusement, pleasure, and joy.
Cultivate an appreciation for the blessings in your life, both big and small.
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Gratitude
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Happiness
Feeling joyful, content, or purposely fulfilled.
Health
Maintaining and enhancing physical well-being.
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Honesty
Being sincere and truthful and keeping promises.
Helping
Taking care of others and assisting others to flourish.
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Inclusion
Welcoming everyone to participate and making them
feel they equally belong.
Independence
Being self-reliant or having autonomy when living and working with others.
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Inner harmony
Being free from inner conflict and feeling integrated, whole, and tranquil.
Integrity
Acting in line with beliefs and doing what you said you would.
Intimacy
Having deep connections with others.
Kindness
Acting thoughtfully with consideration for other's feelings.
Learning
Deepening knowledge and expanding perspective for personal growth.
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Loyalty
Acting with devotion to people, groups, or a cause.
Patience
Calmly accepting delays and a slow pace.
Peace
Living in harmony with people, groups, and the environment.
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Perseverance
​Pushing through to the end; completing tasks and goals even when difficult.
Personal Growth
Continually developing and improving one's self.
Power
Having the authority or ability to direct events or people or make things happen.
Practicality
Acting with logic, evidence, or good sense when making decisions.
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Prosperity
Flourishing, easily obtaining desires, or feeling wealthy or satisfied.
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Religion
Experiencing a deep connection with one's faith.
Security
Being free from worry and being safe from threats.
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Simplicity
Having an uncluttered environment, enjoying natural states, and communicating easily.
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Spirituality
Believing in the divine and an unseen power or living with gratitude and appreciation.
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Social Justice
Working to establish fairness in society, righting what is wrong and not equal.
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Stability
Having a sense of certainty and predictability and adhering to structure and systems.
Status
Being highly regarded in one's social group.
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Teamwork
Cooperating with others toward a common goal and collaborating to produce a result.
Tradition
Respecting the way things have been done in the past; honoring rituals and heritage.
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Winning
Success when competing and coming out on top.
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