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Discovering Your Core Values

This document discusses core values and provides steps to discover your own core values. Core values are defined as personal rules, principles and fundamental truths that motivate us and give life meaning. They are generally discovered rather than designed and guide our thoughts and actions. The document then lists examples of common core values and warns that the examples are not necessarily everyone's core values. It proceeds to outline four steps to discover a person's core values, which involve listing feelings you want to experience, recalling memorable life experiences, choosing the most important feelings, and determining the meaning behind each value. The overall goal is to understand what drives your emotions and behaviors.

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Discovering Your Core Values

This document discusses core values and provides steps to discover your own core values. Core values are defined as personal rules, principles and fundamental truths that motivate us and give life meaning. They are generally discovered rather than designed and guide our thoughts and actions. The document then lists examples of common core values and warns that the examples are not necessarily everyone's core values. It proceeds to outline four steps to discover a person's core values, which involve listing feelings you want to experience, recalling memorable life experiences, choosing the most important feelings, and determining the meaning behind each value. The overall goal is to understand what drives your emotions and behaviors.

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  • Core Values Introduction
  • Examples of Core Values
  • Discover Your Core Values

CORE VALUES

- Your life force, your qi, your energy -

What are core values?

• It’s what’s important to you


• It’s an emotional state all humans move towards
• It drives your thoughts and actions every second of
every day
• It’s a set of personal rules, principles and fundamental
truths that give us the fuel and motivation to lead a
meaningful, pleasurable and purposeful life
• It’s an emotional state all humans move towards
• Core values are generally discovered, not designed
• You can’t touch, smell, taste, see or hear your core
values. But you can feel it inside you leading and
guiding you all the time
• It’s an emotional state all humans move towards

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Examples of core values

honesty, integrity, safety, security, freedom, health, fun,


adventure, love, happiness, achievement, success,
fulfilment, justice, balance, compassion, recognition,
fame, respect, honour, creativity, faith, loyalty,
responsibility, power, influence, peace, dedication,
trust, friendship, authenticity, growth, independence,
intimacy, devotion, structure

WARNING
These are just examples
and are not necessarily your core values.
You must discover yours and not choose someone
else’s!!

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DISCOVER YOUR CORE


VALUES NOW

Discover your core values


STEP 1

Give yourself just 30 seconds and quickly write 10 -15 feelings


you want to experience today and everyday. These are feelings
like happiness, freedom, respect……. No explanation needed,
just a one-word description of each feeling.

Answer this question, “What are the feelings I want to feel


everyday?”

“Know thyself, an
unexamined life is
not worth living”
- Socrates -

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STEP 2

Now remember a time in your life (could be yesterday, could


be 20 years ago, it doesn't matter) when you had a memorable
experience and you felt really and truly yourself and loving
every minute of life. It could be your graduation ceremony,
the birth of a child, a ‘well done” from your boss.

What intense emotion did you feel? A sense of pride? A


sense of belonging? Perhaps a sense of accomplishment?
Replay that memorable time in your mind now as if it were real
- include the same sounds you heard back then, with the same
images, same room temperature, same people, same
everything – make it real and allow yourself to feel the intense
emotion you felt back then.

This feeling is one of your core values. Write this feeling in this
box.

Repeat this process for 2 different experiences.

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STEP 3

Look at the results from Step 1 and Step 2 again. You’ll


probably have a few feelings scribbled or typed in. Look at
this list and choose 8 feelings that you know describes you!
These are the feelings or emotional states that you seek
everyday. These are your core values. Write it here (in no
particular order)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

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STEP 4

Find a meaning for your values. If, for example, you have
respect as a core value, ask yourself “what must happen to me
to feel respected?” Your answer could be “when the
important people in my life acknowledge my contributions.”
Your answer is the meaning of your core value.

In the table below, list your core values from Step 3, and now
include the meaning of this value.

My core values What these values mean to me

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

8.

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THE LAST WORD …………

Now that you know (roughly) your core values and what it
means to you, make mental notes throughout today whenever
you feel happy or upset. Ask yourself which of your values you
were experiencing, or not experiencing!

Enjoy this amazing realisation of why your moods change


throughout the day! It’s all about being aligned with your core
values, or being misaligned.

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