Core Value Clarity Worksheet

Most values exercises stop too early. You tick a few words you like, circle five, feel briefly virtuous, and nothing changes on Monday.

This one keeps going, and the useful steps come late. Step four asks where your top values collide, because they will: honesty against loyalty, say, or ambition against family. Step six asks whether your number one value actually shows up in an ordinary week, and if it doesn't, why not.

Uncomfortable.

The eight steps

1. Tick every value that matters to you, from a list of close to a hundred
2. Narrow them to six
3. Write what each one means to you and how it shows in your life
4. Find the conflicts between them
5. Rank your top three, with a reason for each
6. Test the ranking against how you actually live
7. Decide how you will handle the conflicts
8. Put your three on a one-page display, somewhere you will see it every day

People in the middle of a hard stretch tend to choose the values they wish they had rather than the ones they live by. Step six catches some of that, though not all of it.

Also in: The Clarity and Direction System, 13 tools, £17, alongside the Wheel of Life.

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