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Ranking Personal Values Guide

The document discusses the importance of values in shaping actions, decisions, and behaviors, and highlights the potential discontent that arises when actions do not align with personal values. It provides a list of values for individuals to rank based on personal significance and encourages reflection on the meaning and implications of these values in their lives. Additionally, it poses questions to help individuals explore their values more deeply and understand their origins and importance.

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Ranking Personal Values Guide

The document discusses the importance of values in shaping actions, decisions, and behaviors, and highlights the potential discontent that arises when actions do not align with personal values. It provides a list of values for individuals to rank based on personal significance and encourages reflection on the meaning and implications of these values in their lives. Additionally, it poses questions to help individuals explore their values more deeply and understand their origins and importance.

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Discovering our Values

Values are the ideas we hold dearest, what we prioritize, and what we strive towards. They
can help shape our actions, decisions, and behaviors. Sometimes, our actions and values
do not align, and that may cause discontent in our lives. Below are many examples of
values. You can rank every value, or just mark all the values that feel most important to you
(and rank them if you want.) There’s some blank boxes at the end to fill in other values that
are not listed.
Ranking: on a scale of 1-5, 1 being not important at all, 5 being of utmost importance.

Value Rating Value Rating


Achievement Adventure
Art Authenticity
Beauty Boldness
Bravery Calm
Caring Cautiousness
Charity Cheerfulness
Cleanliness Comfort
Common sense Communication
Community Compassion
Confidence Control
Cooperation Courage
Creativity Curiosity
Dependability Determination
Devotion Diversity
Education Empathy
Enjoyment Equality
Ethics Excellence
Fairness Faith
Family Flexibility
Freedom Friendship
Generosity Growth
Happiness Hard work
Health Honesty
Hope Humor
Imagination Independence
Intelligence Joy
Justice Kindness
Knowledge Leadership
Love Logic
Loyalty Maturity
Optimism Originality
Passion Patience
Patriotism Peace
Playfulness Pleasure
Positivity Recognition
Reliability Respect
Responsibility Security
Socializing Spirituality
Status Strength
Success Sympathy
Tradition Trust
Unity Wealth
Wisdom

After identifying your values above, some questions you can ask yourself:
What does this value mean- dictionary definition, or to me personally?
How do I know when I am acting in alignment with this value? What actions, feelings,
thoughts, and behaviors are in alignment with this value? How about when I’m NOT acting
in alignment with this value?
Can I think of anyone, real or fictional, that is a good representation of this value? Why?
What would my life look like if I ALWAYS acted in alignment with this value? What about if I
NEVER did?
Where did I learn this value (friends, family, society, etc)?
Why is it so important to me?

Example:
Value: Growth
To me personally, growth means challenging yourself to learn more about the world and
myself. I know I am acting in alignment when I’m excited and curious about a new topic,
spend a lot of time thinking and reading and talking about it. I am not aligned when I am
not actively searching new knowledge, or think I know it all. Someone I think is a good
representation of growth is my best friend because she is always questioning the world
around her, likes trying new things, and loves signing up for interesting classes. I think I
learned this value from my mom who always encouraged me to be learning. It is important
to me because I don’t want to get stuck and stagnant.

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