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The Marvel of Values

4/15/2014

 
Values are at the core of every decision we make. They are the driving force behind why we choose to do what we do. Let me give you an example.

I love my job. But what I really love is the actual nature of the work. I love teaching, facilitating, coaching, training, speaking, developing curriculum, researching leadership content, and writing. I get to do these activities every day and they release a ton of energy. However, if I were to be aiming or deploying these activities in an environment that did not align with my values, I wouldn’t feel the same energy.

When I aim them at education, a field that emphasizes knowledge for the sake of empowerment and betterment, I feel energized. But if I were to use these talents to boost profits or for any other purpose, I wouldn’t feel the same. Why? Values. At its core, my place of employment aligns really, really well with by belief system.

Many years ago I took a values assessment. From that assessment, I determined that some of the things I value most are belief in others, empowerment, education, and personal development/growth. Based on this, if I align my career with what I value I vastly increase the likelihood that I will feel satisfied and congruent.

So how do you figure out what you value? There are several ways. One of the easiest is to work through a reflection activity that helps to identify values. Another way is to simply think about a time in your life when you felt congruent…a time when the world was right and you felt whole. Now look at this list of words — which was present in your life at that moment? List 2-3, put them in order, and define them.
One of the biggest traps we fall into when identifying values is to lump really complex ideas into a few words. “Accountability” can mean very different things to different people. What does it mean to you?
  • Accountability
  • Accuracy
  • Achievement
  • Adventurousness
  • Altruism
  • Ambition
  • Assertiveness
  • Balance
  • Being the best
  • Belonging
  • Boldness
  • Calmness
  • Carefulness
  • Challenge
  • Cheerfulness
  • Clear-mindedness
  • Commitment
  • Community
  • Compassion
  • Competitiveness
  • Consistency
  • Contentment
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Contribution
  • Control
  • Cooperation
  • Correctness
  • Courtesy
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Decisiveness
  • Democraticness
  • Dependability
  • Determination
  • Devoutness
  • Diligence
  • Discipline
  • Discretion
  • Diversity
  • Dynamism
  • Economy
  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Elegance
  • Empathy
  • Enjoyment
  • Enthusiasm
  • EqualityExcellence
  • Excitement
  • Expertise
  • Exploration
  • Expressiveness
  • Fairness
  • Faith
  • Family-orientedness
  • Fidelity
  • Fitness
  • Fluency
  • Focus
  • Freedom
  • Fun
  • Generosity
  • Goodness
  • Grace
  • Growth
  • Happiness
  • Hard Work
  • Health
  • Helping Society
  • Holiness
  • Honesty
  • Honor
  • Humility
  • Independence
  • Ingenuity
  • Inner Harmony
  • Inquisitiveness
  • Insightfulness
  • Intelligence
  • Intellectual Status
  • Intuition
  • Joy
  • Justice
  • Leadership
  • Legacy
  • Love
  • Loyalty
  • Making a difference
  • Mastery
  • Merit
  • Obedience
  • Openness
  • Order
  • Originality
  • PatriotismPerfection
  • Piety
  • Positivity
  • Practicality
  • Preparedness
  • Professionalism
  • Prudence
  • Quality-orientation
  • Reliability
  • Resourcefulness
  • Restraint
  • Results-oriented
  • Rigor
  • Security
  • Self-actualization
  • Self-control
  • Selflessness
  • Self-reliance
  • Sensitivity
  • Serenity
  • Service
  • Shrewdness
  • Simplicity
  • Soundness
  • Speed
  • Spontaneity
  • Stability
  • Strategic
  • Strength
  • Structure
  • Success
  • Support
  • Teamwork
  • Temperance
  • Thankfulness
  • Thoroughness
  • Thoughtfulness
  • Timeliness
  • Tolerance
  • Traditionalism
  • Trustworthiness
  • Truth-seeking
  • Understanding
  • Uniqueness
  • Unity
  • Usefulness
  • Vision
  • Vitality

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