Healthy Habits Suck Clarify Your Values
Clarify Your Values
Step 1: Choose your values. Read through the list of values below and check off those that are most important to you. You may check
them all, and that’s okay. In step 2, you’ll sort through them to figure out their relative importance to you.
Values
1. Acceptance: Being open to and accepting of myself, others, life, and so on
2. Adventure: Being adventurous; actively seeking, creating, or exploring novel or stimulating experiences
3. Assertiveness: Respectfully standing up for my rights and requesting what I want
4. Authenticity: Being authentic, genuine, real, and true to myself
5. Beauty: Appreciating, creating, nurturing, or cultivating beauty in myself, others, the environment, and so
forth
6. Caring: Caring for myself, others, the environment, and so forth
7. Challenge: Challenging myself to grow, learn, and improve
8. Compassion: Acting with kindness toward those who are suffering
9. Connection: Engaging fully in whatever I’m doing, and being fully present with others
10. Contribution: Helping make a positive difference in myself and others
11. Conformity: Respecting and obeying rules and obligations
12. Cooperation: Cooperating and collaborating with others
13. Courage: Being courageous or brave; persisting in the face of fear, threat, or difficulty
14. Creativity: Being creative or innovative
15. Curiosity: Being curious about, open-minded toward, and interested in exploration and discovery
16. Encouragement: Encouraging and rewarding behavior that I value in myself and others
17. Equality: Treating others as equals, and vice versa
18. Excitement: Seeking out, creating, and engaging in activities that are exciting, stimulating, or thrilling
19. Fairness: Being fair to myself and others
20. Fitness: Maintaining or improving my fitness; looking after my physical and mental health and well-being
21. Flexibility: Adjusting and adapting readily to changing circumstances
22. Freedom: Choosing to live and behave freely, or helping others do likewise
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Values
23. Friendliness: Being friendly, companionable, or agreeable toward others
24. Forgiveness: Forgiving myself and others
25. Fun: Being fun loving; seeking out, creating, or engaging in fun activities
26. Generosity: Sharing with and giving to myself and others
27. Gratitude: Being grateful for and appreciative of the positive aspects of myself, others, and life
28. Honesty: Being honest, truthful, and sincere with myself and others
29. Humor: Seeing and appreciating the humorous side of life
30. Humility: Being humble and modest; letting my achievements speak for themselves
31. Industrious: Being hardworking and dedicated
32. Independence: Being self-supportive and choosing my own way of doing things
33. Intimacy: Opening up, revealing, and sharing myself (emotionally or physically) in close personal
relationships
34. Justice: Upholding justice and fairness
35. Kindness: Being kind, compassionate, considerate, nurturing, and caring toward myself and others
36. Love: Acting lovingly or affectionately toward myself and others
37. Mindfulness: Being conscious of, open to, and curious about my here-and-now experience
38. Order: Being orderly and organized
39. Open-mindedness: Thinking things through, seeing things from other points of view, and weighing
evidence fairly
40. Patience: Waiting calmly for what I want
41. Persistence: Continuing resolutely, despite problems or difficulties
42. Pleasure: Giving pleasure to myself and others
43. Power: Strongly influencing or wielding authority over others; taking charge, leading, organizing
44. Reciprocity: Building relationships in which there’s a balance of giving and taking
45. Respect: Respecting myself and others; being polite and considerate and showing positive regard
46. Responsibility: Being responsible and accountable for my actions
47. Romance: Being romantic; displaying and expressing love or strong affection
48. Safety: Protecting myself and others and ensuring our safety
49. Self-awareness: Being aware of my own thoughts, feelings, and actions
50. Self-care: Looking after my health and well-being and getting my needs met
51. Self-control: Acting in accordance with my own ideals
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Values
52. Self-development: Continuing to grow, advance, and improve knowledge, skills, character, and life
experience
53. Sensuality: Creating, exploring, and enjoying experiences that stimulate the five senses
54. Sexuality: Exploring or expressing my sexuality
55. Spirituality: Connecting with things bigger than myself
56. Skillfulness: Continually practicing and improving my skills and applying myself fully when using them
57. Supportiveness: Being supportive of, helpful to, encouraging of, and available to myself and others
58. Trust: Being trustworthy, loyal, faithful, sincere, and reliable
59. Write your own value:
60. Write your own value:
(Adapted from the values checklist, Harris 2011)
Step 2: Using the values you checked in the list above, sort them by relative importance below.
Values Sorting
Most Important Sort of Important Not as Important
Healthy Habits Suck Clarify Your Values
Step 3: Now sort the “most important” values from step 2.
• In the left-hand column, write the values that feel deeply connected to who you want to be.
• In the right-hand column, write the values that you think you should have or that someone else (for example,
your mother, spouse, and so forth) thinks you should have.
Values Sorting
Who I Want to Be Who I Should Be
Healthy Habits Suck Clarify Your Values
Step 5: Now sort the values from the “high priority” category in step 4.
These core values reflect what is most important to you right now. You’re not stuck with these values forever, because you’ll
prioritize values differently at different stages of your life. For example, you may prioritize different values when you are early in a
career compared to when you become a parent. In fact, it’s important to continue to consider your values on an ongoing basis.
Reflecting on your values on a regular basis will help ensure that you are focused on and prioritizing the ones that matter the most
to you at this time.
(Adapted from Day and Lee-Baggley 2017)
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