Purpose

The "Core Values Process" is designed to help you pinpoint the core values that resonate deeply with you. Much like a compass that steers a ship through stormy seas, your values provide direction to your thoughts, actions, and choices, ensuring that they align with your authentic self. Read here about values, in particular, needs and positive character qualities.

Usefulness

Once you clarify your main guiding values in life, they will help you in several ways:

  1. Self-awareness: Knowing your values can shed further light on your motivations, passions, and what drives your daily behaviors and long-term aspirations.
  2. Enhanced Decision-making: When faced with a dilemma, your identified values will serve as reliable guides, ensuring your choices resonate with your genuine self.
  3. Building Authentic Relationships: When you are clear about your values, you can nurture better relationships. You naturally gravitate towards individuals who share similar ideals, and form more harmonious, deeper connections. You can articular your values clearly, reducing misunderstandings and providing clear boundaries as well as keys for resolving disagreements.
  4. Life Satisfaction: Aligning your decisions and actions with you core values leads to increased contentment and satisfaction. It eliminates the internal friction that arises from living out of sync with one's true beliefs.
  5. Resilience: In challenging times, your values become your anchor. They provide strength, reminding you of what truly matters and inspiring perseverance.

Instructions

You can do one or more of the following:

  1. Narrow down: Examine the lists here and pick any values that resonate with you. Then from your list, choose the more important ones, and keep refining, until you get to about 6 core values.
  2. Role Models: Think of people you admire - whether personal acquaintances, historical figures, or fictional characters. What traits and values do you appreciate in them?
  3. Life's Highs and Lows: Think about moments in your life when you felt incredibly proud or satisfied, and times when you felt regret or disappointment. What were the underlying values that were met or violated in those instances?