Choosing Core Values

Choose your top 6-8 values from a wide-ranging list of values.
Think of three to six people you most admire or love. Consider why they are so important to you.
See a career counsellor as they are able to help match their clients to a compatible career area.
Use an online values inventory.
Observe yourself and learn. If you experience a lot of dissatisfaction with your choices, you may not be living up to your values or you may need to re-evaluate what is most important to you.
Focus on the bitter and the sweet in your life. These moments could direct you to what you care about most.

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6 Ways to Discover and Choose Your Core Values

You've planned to have dinner with your friend on Friday night. On Friday morning, the guy you've been crushing on asks you out for the evening. Do you say yes and break the date with your friend? You just got a raise. Should you bank it for retirement or make your life more comfortable now?

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Choose Your Top Values

Select your top six to eight values. Some of these values may change as you face new situations.

Examples of values: financial security, compassion, health/fitness, nature, accomplishment,...

Think of the people you admire

Values can be personified in people that you love and admire. Identifying the specific values embodied by your heroes can inspire you to adopt those values for yourself. To uncover the values that you associate with your loved ones and role models:

Identify and write down six people who are important role models or valued connections for you.
Think of the values they embody.

See a Career Counselor

Your values are a major determinant of career choice, work decisions, and career transitions, as each may lead you down a different career path.

That’s why career counselors have a large toolbox of strategies and inventories, including values inventories to help match their clients to a compatible career area.

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How to Discover Your Values and Use Them to Make Better Decisions

Have you ever been faced with a difficult decision and not known which direction to take? Have you ever spent days or weeks or months going back and forth on a decision? You start with "Yes I will do it," then "no I won't," then back to "yes I will."

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Personal Or Core Values

They are what you consider most important in your life, literally what you “value. ” They are broad concepts that can be applied across a wide range of circumstances, as opposed to narrow answers t...

The Benefits Of Having a Core Value

Having a core values list helps you make better decisions. The decisions you make come more quickly and efficiently than they would without it.
Being unconscious of your core values makes you likely to keep repeating the same mistakes.

Creating a List Of Personal Values

The core values that are most valuable to each of us come from our own personal experience, not from being taught.

As you put them into practice you’ll get better at internalizing these values and they’ll express themselves subconsciously with smaller decisions, as well.

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