Your values are what you believe matter most in life. We all have a value system. It can change a bit during the course of our life but it remains our strongest internal compass to get through each day. Your values are at the center of each decision you take (Yes, that feeling sometimes when a decision feels bad, it’s because it’s not aligned with your value system).
So, how can you determine which set of values best fits you?
Important! Don’t even think about judging yourself. None of those values are either good or bad, better or worse than others. They are what they are and we are what we are.



- Go back to moments of struggles in your life and ask yourself :
- What was upsetting about that situation?
- How did it get out of it?
- What would have happened if I had done things differently or taken a different decision?
- Think about the last time you had to make an important decision and it felt so good. Which of your values were you aligning with?
- And the other way around. Think about the last time you had to make a decision and it somehow felt wrong. With which value(s) of yours do you think you were misaligned?
Accountability |
Achievement |
Advancement |
Affection |
Authenticity |
Autonomy |
Balance |
Beauty |
Caring |
Challenge |
Change |
Collaboration |
Communication |
Community |
Compassion |
Competence |
Competition |
Connectedness |
Consensus |
Conviction |
Cooperation |
Courage |
Courtesy |
Creativity |
Curiosity |
Dedication |
Empathy |
Empowerment |
Enlightenment |
Enterprise |
Entrepreneurship |
Environment |
Equality |
Ethics |
Excellence |
Excitement |
Enterprise |
Fairness |
Faith |
Fame |
Family |
Flexibility |
Forgiveness |
Freedom |
Friendship |
Fulfilment |
Fun |
Goodness |
Gratitude |
Greatness |
Growth |
Happiness |
Harmony |
Healing |
Honesty |
Innovation |
Integrity |
Involvement |
Joy |
Justice |
Kindness |
Knowledge |
Leadership |
Learning |
Love |
Loyalty |
Mastery |
Meaning |
Mercy |
Merit |
Money |
Nature |
Openness |
Order |
Partnership |
Passion |
Patience |
Peace |
Perfection |
Perseverance |
Personal development |
Quality |
Recognition |
Relationships |
Respect |
Responsibility |
Responsiveness |
Risk-taking |
Safety |
Sanctuary |
Security |
Self-esteem |
Serenity |
Service |
Sharing |
Simplicity |
Spirituality |
Stability |
Status |
Stewardship |
Strength |
Success |
Teamwork |
Tradition |
Trust |
Truth |
Understanding |
Uniqueness |
Variety |