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EXERCISE | VALUE IDENTIFICATION EXERCISE

Values are the reasons that determine why we want the things we do. Reasons are the fuel in the
furnace of achievement. The more reasons we can identify for wanting something, the more
likely we will ultimately achieve it.
The stages of this process will be as follows:

1. To select the ten values that are most important to YOU in life

2. To compare the values against each other to prioritise them in order of importance

3. To elicit your core values in each of the roles and key areas of your life.

By identifying your core values for certain, you will undoubtedly clarify your areas of satisfaction
and dissatisfaction in life, in the degree to which your life is being lived in accordance with or in
contravention of your innermost values.
Listed below are some examples of values that are important. You may have others you will want
to include or substitute for these.

Stage 1

The list is provided more as a prompt than anything else and is not exhaustive. If you know with
absolute certainty, your ten core governing values, write them down. If you know a few, look at
the values on the list to see which ones are different from the ones you have identified and strike
a real chord with you.
From the list of values and adding any that you feel are more appropriate to you, circle the ten
values that are most important to you, the ten that matter most to you. For the purposes of this
stage of the exercise, look for the ten that have the biggest overall impact on you. Later we will
look at the key areas and roles in your life and repeat the process. This process will be harder
than you may imagine as there are a number of values you may initially think are important to
you, but perhaps they are inherited or no longer serve your best interests.

To show you how the process works, I have inserted ten example values in no particular order, in
the boxes on the next page: