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1.  Choose Your Top Values

1. 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, creativity, dependability, loyalty, beauty, bravery, gratitude, love, connection/relationships, learning, leadership, survival, self-preservation, security, adventure, family, work, success, calm, freedom…

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3. See a Career Counselor

3. 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 compa...

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4.  Use An Online Values Inventory

4. Use An Online Values Inventory

You can find various anonymous values inventories online made by specialists. Clarifying your values can serve as a blueprint for effective decision-making and optimal functioning. 

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2. Think Of Those You Most Appreciate And Why You do So

2. Think Of Those You Most Appreciate And Why You do So

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 si...

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5. Observe Yourself And Learn

5. Observe Yourself And Learn

As you live your life, be mindful of the choices you make. For several days, consciously label the values behind your key decisions at work and at home.

If the values you chose as most important aren’t reflected in your daily life, you may not be living up to them or you m...

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6. Focus On The Good And The Bad In Your Life

6. Focus On The Good And The Bad In Your Life

You can learn about your values by thinking back to the sweetest and most painful moments of your life. These moments could direct you to what you care about most.

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Choose Your Top Values

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, creativity, dependability, loyalty, beauty, bravery, gratitude, love, connection/relationships, lea...

Discovering your personal values

  • A way to discover your personal values is to write a short personal essay about the values of the people you admire and how they align with your own values.
  • A second strategy is to pick six to eight values from a list such as adventure, bravery, compassion, creativity, family, free...

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