Clarify Your Core Values

Abundance Acceptance Accomplishment Accountability Achievement Adaptability Adventure Altruism Ambition Authenticity Autonomy Balance Beauty Being the best Belonging Career Caring Clarity Collaboration Commitment Communication Community Compassion Competence Confidence Connection Contentment Contribution Cooperation Courage Creativity Curiosity Dignity Diversity Efficiency Emotional Health Environment Equality Ethics Excellence Fairness Faith Family Financial Stability Flexibility Forgiveness Freedom Friendship Fulfillment Fun Future Generations Generosity Giving Back Grace Gratitude Growth Harmony Health Holistic Living Home Honesty Hope Humility Humor Inclusion Independence Initiative Integrity Intimacy Intuition Job Security Joy Justice Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Legacy Leisure Love Loyalty Making a Difference Nature Openness Optimism Order Parenting Partnership Patience Patriotism Peace Perseverance Personal Fulfillment Personal Growth Physical Appearance Power Pride Privacy Professionalism Recognition Reliability Resourcefulness Respect Responsibility Risk-taking Romance Safety Security Self-Care Self-Discipline Self-Expression Self-Mastery Self-Realization Self-Respect Sensuality Serenity Service Simplicity Spirituality Sportsmanship Stewardship Success Teamwork Thrift Time Tradition Travel Trust Truth Understanding Uniqueness Usefulness Vision Vitality Vulnerability Wealth Well-being Wholeheartedness Wisdom

Answer some or all of these questions to help you decide which values to choose:

1. What do you stand for and, even more, what will you not stand for?
2. What values do you hold dear enough that you're willing to make sacrifices for them?
3. What values are you willing to pay for, work hard for, or even die for?
4. Who are the three people, living or dead, that you admire most?
5. What qualities or attributes do you consider most important in them?
6. If you could embody any one of these individuals, which of their qualities would you most want to emulate?
7. What three words would you like people to use to describe you to other people when you are not present?

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