another Fun exercise - need feedback
Well, I think it's fun, anyway...maybe I should get out more...
Again, this is for my class. I would appreciate your help. Post your exercise here, or email me at debra@mudflapstudios.com
Checklist for Personal Values
Step 1: What I value most...
From this list of values (both work and personal), select 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 your own values.
Achievement
Advancement and promotion
Adventure
Affection
Arts
Challenging problems
Change and variety
Close relationships
Community
Competence
Competition
Cooperation
Country
Creativity
Decisiveness
Democracy
Ecological awareness
Economic security
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Ethical Practice
Excellence
Excitement
Expertise
Fame
Fast living
Fast-paced work
Financial gain
Freedom
Friendships
Growth
Having a Family
Helping other people
Helping society
Honesty
Independence
Influencing others
Inner harmony
Integrity
Intellectual status
Involvement
Job tranquility
Knowledge
Leadership
Location
Loyalty
Market position
Meaningful work
Merit
Money
Nature
(being around people who are) Open and Honest
Order (tranquility, stability, conformity)
Personal development (living up to the fullest use of my potential)
Physical challenge
Pleasure
Power and authority
Privacy
Public service
Purity
Quality of what I take part in
Quality relationships
Recognition (respect from others, status)
Religion
Reputation
Responsibility and accountability
Security
self-respect
Serenity
Sophistication
Stability
Status
Supervising others
Time freedom
Truth
Wealth
Wisdom
Work under pressure
Work with others
Working alone
Step 2: Elimination
Now that you've identified ten, cross off five.
Step 3: Articulation
Take a look at the top three values on your list.
What do they mean, exactly? How would your life be different if those values were prominent and practised? Does the personal vision which you drew forth reflect those values? If not, should your personal vision be expanded?
My Top Five Values
Freedom - From social anxiety and freedom from financial stress. The freedom to advance in my career.
Creativity - breathes life into me. Creating art, and solving problems, gives me a sense of satisfaction and achievement.
Helping Other People - Using my talents in creativity not only for my own satisfaction, but to help other people, other women who have been through similar situations in their lives then I have.
Quality Relationships - Quality relationships with my family, my friends, and my husband.
Having a family - Having a family, a close-knit community, is important to me. I hope my husband and I can create a family to carry-on that tradition.
I think my values support my vision. I don't think any of them detract. Most of them are closely related to the vision.
It's important to evaluate where your personal values are in relation to your personal vision to see if they are incongruent. Your personal vision might even change or you might realize something about that vision that you hadn't considered before.
Again, this is for my class. I would appreciate your help. Post your exercise here, or email me at debra@mudflapstudios.com
Checklist for Personal Values
Step 1: What I value most...
From this list of values (both work and personal), select 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 your own values.
Achievement
Advancement and promotion
Adventure
Affection
Arts
Challenging problems
Change and variety
Close relationships
Community
Competence
Competition
Cooperation
Country
Creativity
Decisiveness
Democracy
Ecological awareness
Economic security
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Ethical Practice
Excellence
Excitement
Expertise
Fame
Fast living
Fast-paced work
Financial gain
Freedom
Friendships
Growth
Having a Family
Helping other people
Helping society
Honesty
Independence
Influencing others
Inner harmony
Integrity
Intellectual status
Involvement
Job tranquility
Knowledge
Leadership
Location
Loyalty
Market position
Meaningful work
Merit
Money
Nature
(being around people who are) Open and Honest
Order (tranquility, stability, conformity)
Personal development (living up to the fullest use of my potential)
Physical challenge
Pleasure
Power and authority
Privacy
Public service
Purity
Quality of what I take part in
Quality relationships
Recognition (respect from others, status)
Religion
Reputation
Responsibility and accountability
Security
self-respect
Serenity
Sophistication
Stability
Status
Supervising others
Time freedom
Truth
Wealth
Wisdom
Work under pressure
Work with others
Working alone
Step 2: Elimination
Now that you've identified ten, cross off five.
Step 3: Articulation
Take a look at the top three values on your list.
What do they mean, exactly? How would your life be different if those values were prominent and practised? Does the personal vision which you drew forth reflect those values? If not, should your personal vision be expanded?
My Top Five Values
Freedom - From social anxiety and freedom from financial stress. The freedom to advance in my career.
Creativity - breathes life into me. Creating art, and solving problems, gives me a sense of satisfaction and achievement.
Helping Other People - Using my talents in creativity not only for my own satisfaction, but to help other people, other women who have been through similar situations in their lives then I have.
Quality Relationships - Quality relationships with my family, my friends, and my husband.
Having a family - Having a family, a close-knit community, is important to me. I hope my husband and I can create a family to carry-on that tradition.
I think my values support my vision. I don't think any of them detract. Most of them are closely related to the vision.
It's important to evaluate where your personal values are in relation to your personal vision to see if they are incongruent. Your personal vision might even change or you might realize something about that vision that you hadn't considered before.