Identifying Your Values
Discover the core values that shape your choices and create a roadmap for leadership grounded in authenticity and impact. This Values Inventory Navigator is designed to help you clarify your personal values, prioritize them for maximum alignment, and explore advanced techniques for value-driven decision-making.
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💡 Your values are dynamic and can evolve over time. It's helpful to revisit this exercise periodically to ensure your actions and decisions align with what truly matters most.
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What are Values?
- Values are the core beliefs that guide your priorities, choices, and actions in life.
- Understanding which values are most foundational to you clarifies decision-making and helps ensure alignment between your actions and what matters most.
- Recognizing your values provides a strong foundation for self-understanding and making choices aligned with what truly matters to you.
Why This Matters
- They guide your choices and actions, forming the foundation for authentic, impactful leadership.
- Decisions aligning with your deepest values lead to greater fulfillment, sustainable success, and clarity in complex situations.
Understanding Your Values
Before starting the Values List exercise, consider these categories. It's okay if they overlap! The goal is to start generating all the values that might be relevant.
Values You Live
- These are deeply ingrained, even if not consciously articulated. You often feel them in your gut reactions.
Values You Admire:
- These may be ones you see in others or that society promotes. They might not yet be fully aligned with how you act.
Aspirational Values:
- These are values you'd like to embody more strongly. There's potential for growth here.
Values Identification