Determining Your Core Values
Essential Exercises
Determining Your Core Values
Your values guide and direct your life and how you live it. Think of your values like a compass, pointing you in the direction of how to find happiness. If how you're living your life and your values don't align, you will be unhappy.
Finding Your Core Values
Pull up . Ignore everything but the list of values, we are doing something entirely different than what the website talks about.
Write down the values that you find most meaningful to you in no particular order. Any value you write down should be a 9/10 or 10/10 on a scale of importance to you. All values are worthwhile, but they aren't created equal, not to you anyway. At the end your list should be somewhere around 20-40 values, most likely.
Categorize your values into groupings of similar values. For example, if you have the values "care", "compassion", "kindness", and "love", you could group those into an overarching category of "love" or something similar. These cumulative groupings are your core values. Aim for between 4-6 core values although they could be more or less. The more values you have under a core category, the more important it is to you.
That's it! What this does is it tells you what you value, quite literally. Your values serve as a roadmap for what you find meaningful and rewarding in life. If you aren't living your life according to your values, the chances of you being happy are pretty slim. I've found that this exercise helps inform me about career choices and how I should spend my time. When I'm feeling stuck or sad, it's typically because I'm not living according to my values. Use your values to align your life with what matters to you.
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