Checklist for Personal Values by Charlotte Roberts 14.1

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By Charlotte Roberts Fifth Discipline Fieldbook

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Interesting Checklist for Personal Values This exercise is designed to help you reach a better understanding of your most significant values.

Step 1: What I Value Most... From this list of values below (both work and personal), select the ten that are most important to you-as guides for how to behave, or as components of a valued way of life. Feel free to add any values of your own to this list.

Achievement Advancement and promotion Adventure Affection (love and caring) Arts Being around people who are open & honest

Challenging problems Change & variety

Financial gain Friendships

Physical challenge Pleasure

Growth Having a family

Power & authority Privacy

Helping other people Helping society

Public service Purity

Honesty

Quality of what I take part in

Independence

Quality relationships

Way of the Heart

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Close relationships

Influencing others

Recognition (respect (from others, status)

Community

Inner harmony

Religion

Competence

Integrity

Reputation

Intellectual status

Responsibility and accountability

Co-operation

Involvement

Security

Country

Job tranquility

Self-respect

Creativity

Knowledge

Serenity

Decisiveness

Leadership

Sophistication

Democracy

Location

Stability

Ecological awareness

Loyalty

Status

Economic security

Market position

Supervising others

Effectiveness

Meaningful work

Time freedom

Efficiency

Merit

Truth

Ethical practice

Money

Wealth

Excellence

Nature

Wisdom

Order (tranquility, stability, conformity)

Work under pressure

Fame

Personal development

Work with others

Fast living

Freedom

Working alone

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Competition

Excitement

Step 2: Elimination Now that you have identified ten, imagine that you are only permitted to have five values. Which five would you give up? Cross them off. Now imagine that you are only permitted four. Which would you give up? Cross it off... Now cross off another, to bring our list down to three... And another, to bring our list down to two. Finally cross off one of your two values. Here is the big question... which is the one item on the list that you care most about? b

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