What do you value?
The key to you
Defining your values is the next step to unlocking your success. Values are those things that really matter to you - the ideas and beliefs you deem to be the most important in your life.
A range of factors, including your background, upbringing, life philosophy, and events that you've experienced will shape the values you hold.
Values have a major influence on your behaviour and serve as broad guidelines to make authentic choices that leave you feeling more content, happy, and satisfied throughout your life.
When your actions are not in alignment with your values, you find yourself without a sense of achievement or feeling out of control.
Make a deliberate and conscious effort to identify and live according to your values.
D E F I N I N G Y O U R V A L U E S:
1 | SELECT
Identify your top ten values. Go with your gut instinct!
2 | PRIORITISE
Prioritise each value from one to ten. Focus on your top five and briefly define what each one means to you.
3 | CONTEMPLATE
Read each value to yourself, letting the meaning of each word sink in.
4 | DEFINE
Select your top three values and write them down. Commit them to memory, as they will now act as your decision-making blueprint. You also need to define the single value that is most important to you.
5 | COMMIT
Work out what you need to add or remove from your life and what you need to change to reflect these values.
Common Personal Values:
- FAMILY HAPPINESS Quality time, bonding.
- COMPETITIVENESS Taking risks, winning.
- FRIENDSHIP Close relationships with others.
- AFFECTION Love, caring.
- COOPERATION Working well with others, teamwork
- ADVENTURE New challenges
- ACHIEVEMENT A sense of accomplishment.
- WEALTH Making money
- ENERGY Vitality
- FREEDOM Independence, autonomy.
- SELF-RESPECT Sense of personal identity, pride.
- RECOGNITION Acknowledgement, status.
- ADVANCEMENT Promotion
- HEALTH Mental, physical.
- RESPONSIBILITY Being accountable for results.
- INVOLVEMENT Belonging, being involved with others.
- ECONOMIC SECURITY Strong and consistent income streams.
- PLEASURE Fun, laughter, a leisurely lifestyle.
- POWER Control, authority, or influence over others.
- GENEROSITY Helping others, improving society.
- WISDOM Discovering and understanding knowledge
- LOYALTY Devotion, trustworthiness
- CULTURE Traditions, customs, beliefs.
- ORDER Stability, conformity.
- CREATIVITY Being imaginative, innovative.
- INTEGRITY Honesty, sincerity, standing up for oneself.
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Use of personal potential.