Values Exercise

1. Determine your core values. From the list below, choose and write down every core value that resonates with you. Do not overthink your selections.

As you read through the list, simply write down the words that feel like a core value to you personally. If you think of a value you possess that is not on the list, be sure to write it down as well.

Abundance Acceptance Accountability Achievement Advancement Adventure
Advocacy
Ambition
Appreciation Attractiveness Autonomy
Balance
Being the Best Benevolence
Boldness
Brilliance
Calmness
Caring
Challenge
Charity
Cheerfulness Cleverness Community Commitment Compassion Cooperation Collaboration Consistency Contribution
Creativity
Credibility
Curiosity
Daring
Decisiveness Dedication Dependability Diversity
Empathy Encouragement Enthusiasm
Ethics
Excellence Expressiveness Fairness
Family
Friendships Flexibility
Freedom
Fun
Generosity
Grace
Growth
Flexibility
Happiness
Health
Honesty
Humility
Humour Inclusiveness Independence Individuality Innovation Inspiration Intelligence
Intuition
Joy
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Love
Loyalty
Making a Difference
Mindfulness Motivation
Optimism
Open-Mindedness Originality
Passion Performance Personal Development Proactive Professionalism Quality
Recognition
Risk Taking
Safety
Security
Service Spirituality Stability
Peace
Perfection Playfulness Popularity
Power
Preparedness
Proactivity
Professionalism
Punctuality
Recognition
Relationships
Reliability
Resilience
Resourcefulness Responsibility Responsiveness
Security
Self-Control
Selflessness
Simplicity
Stability
Success
Teamwork Thankfulness Thoughtfulness Traditionalism Trustworthiness Understanding Uniqueness
Usefulness
Versatility
Vision
Warmth
Wealth
Well-Being
Wisdom
Zeal

2. Group all similar values together from the list of values you just created. Group them

in a way that makes sense to you, personally. Create a maximum of five groupings. If

you have more than five groupings, drop those least important. See the

example below.

3. Choose one word within each grouping that best represents the label for the entire

group. Again, do not overthink your labels. There are no right or wrong answers. You are

defining the answer that is right for you. See the example below – the label chosen for the

grouping is bolded.