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…

1.  Choose Your Top Values

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.

3. See a Career Counselor

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.&nbsp;

4.  Use An Online Values Inventory

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: <ul><li> Identify and write down six people who are important role models or valued connections for you. </li><li>Think of the values they embody.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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

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 may need to re-evaluate what is most important to you.

5. Observe Yourself And Learn

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.

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

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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