Defining Your Personal Core Values Exercise
Find a quiet space, and at least an hour to reflect on each section below and write everything on a notebook. To find your core values:
- Remember and describe in detail your three greatest accomplishments, your three greatest moments of efficiency, and common rules or themes between them.
- Remember and describe in detail your three greatest failures, your three greatest moments of inefficiency, and common rules or themes between them.
- Identify three or four brief sentences of advice you would give to yourself based on these commonalities.
- Reduce them to a few words. For example: "Don't overindulge in food” to “Moderation”.
- Imagine situations where following your core value hurts you rather than helps you. If you can’t find any, you probably have a good core value.
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