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Values Exercise

Your values are what you keep returning to when the situation changes. This exercise helps you name them precisely and see where your work and choices do and don't reflect them.

Optional

Step 1: Identify Your Top 5

Use the list as a prompt. Choose what's actually true, not what sounds right.

Values to draw from

Accountability · Authenticity · Autonomy · Balance · Belonging · Challenge · Collaboration · Connection · Courage · Creativity · Curiosity · Empathy · Excellence · Exploration · Freedom · Generosity · Growth · Honesty · Impact · Integrity · Innovation · Joy · Justice · Kindness · Leadership · Learning · Legacy · Loyalty · Mastery · Openness · Patience · Presence · Purpose · Recognition · Respect · Responsibility · Security · Self-expression · Service · Simplicity · Spirituality · Structure · Trust · Wisdom

Not on the list? Add it below.

Separated by commas. Your own words are fine.

Step 2: What They Mean to You

Same word, different meaning. What do yours actually stand for?

Not the definition. What does it look like in how you actually work and make decisions?

Step 3: Values in Action

Where they show up. And where they don't.

What you were doing. What made it possible. How it felt.

What happened. What you did or didn't do. What it cost you.

Step 4: Current Alignment

Where things stand today.

Your role, your organization, your relationships, your own choices. Where's the gap?

1 = deeply misaligned. 10 = fully aligned.

Not at all alignedFully aligned

Step 5: When Values Conflict

The trade-offs that shape your decisions.

Example: "When Autonomy and Belonging conflict, I default to Autonomy. It leaves me feeling isolated." Be specific.

Step 6: One Honest Commitment

Turning awareness into action.

It doesn't need to be a big move. Name it specifically.

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