Friday, September 22, 2017

Values Assessment Exercise



Study this list of values and pick the top 12 values that best represent what you consider your core values to be.  Notice that some of the values listed are similar or even the same.  Try to pick the word that best describes what’s most important to you in life.  Feel free to add to the list in the blanks provided if you think of a value that isn’t listed.  List your top 12 in the spaces provided below.


  • Abundance
  • Acceptance
  • Accountability
  • Accomplishment
  • Accuracy
  • Achievement
  • Acknowledgment
  • Adaptability
  • Adventure
  • Aggressiveness
  • Agility
  • Alertness
  • Ambition
  • Appreciation
  • Assertiveness
  • Audacity
  • Awareness
  • Balance
  • Beauty
  • Belonging
  • Boldness
  • Bravery
  • Brilliance
  • Calm
  • Candor
  • Carefulness
  • Caring
  • Certainty
  • Challenge
  • Change
  • Clarity
  • Cheerfulness
  • Cleanliness
  • Collaboration
  • Comfort
  • Commitment
  • Communication
  • Compassion
  • Community
  • Competence
  • Competition
  • Confidence
  • Connection
  • Consistency
  • Contentment
  • Contribution
  • Control
  • Courage
  • Courtesy
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Daring
  • Dependability
  • Decisiveness
  • Delight
  • Desire
  • Determination
  • Devotion
  • Dignity
  • Diligence
  • Discipline
  • Discovery
  • Diversity
  • Drive
  • Duty
  • Eagerness
  • Education
  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Elegance
  • empathy
  • Endurance
  • Energy
  • Employment
  • Enthusiasm
  • Equality
  • Excellence
  • Execution
  • Expertise
  • Exploration
  • Expressiveness
  • Fairness
  • Faith
  • Fame
  • Family
  • Fidelity
  • Flexibility
  • Focus
  • Forgiveness
  • Fortitude
  • Freedom
  • Friendship
  • Frugality
  • Fun
  • Generosity
  • Giving
  • Goodness
  • Grace
  • Gratitude
  • Growth
  • Guidance
  • Happiness
  • Harmony
  • Hard Work
  • Health
  • Helpfulness
  • Heroism
  • Holiness
  • Honesty
  • Honor
  • Hopefulness
  • Hospitality
  • Humility
  • Humor
  • Imagination
  • Improvement
  • Influence
  • Ingenuity
  • Innovation
  • Insightfulness
  • Inspiration
  • Integrity
  • Intelligence
  • Intensity
  • Intimacy
  • Intuitiveness
  • Inventiveness
  • Joy
  • Justice
  • Kindness
  • Knowledge
  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Liberty
  • Logic
  • Longevity (life)
  • Love
  • Loyalty
  • Mastery
  • Maturity
  • Meaning
  • Merit
  • Mindfulness
  • Modesty
  • Money
  • Motivation
  • Openness
  • Opportunity
  • Optimism
  • Order
  • Organization
  • Peace
  • Perceptiveness
  • Perseverance
  • Persistence
  • Pleasure
  • Poise
  • Power
  • Practicality
  • Precision
  • Privacy
  • Proactivity
  • Problem-Solving
  • Prosperity
  • Punctuality
  • Quality
  • Quiet
  • Rationality
  • Recognition
  • Relationships
  • Reliability
  • Religion
  • Resourcefulness
  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Righteousness
  • Risk-taking
  • Romance
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Selflessness
  • Self-esteem
  • Seriousness
  • Service
  • Simplicity
  • Sincerity
  • Skill
  • Speed
  • Spirit
  • Stability
  • Strength
  • Style
  • Teamwork
  • Timeliness
  • Tolerance
  • Tradition
  • Tranquility
  • Trust
  • Truth
  • Unity
  • Variety
  • Well-being
  • Wisdom
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1.                                                                                7.                                                                    


2.                                                                                8.                                                                    


3.                                                                                9.                                                                   


4.                                                                                10.                                                                 


5.                                                                                11.                                                                  


6                                                                                 12.                                                                 


Now take a look at this list and really scrutinize what you’ve come up with.  Reduce your list of 12 to the six that are most important to you.  Compare values side-by-side to decide which really has most meaning for you and list them in the spaces below.


1.                                                                                4.                                                                   

2.                                                                                5.                                                                   



3.                                                                                6.                                                                   


Prioritize your core values in order of importance, with the most important fist.  Think about, if you had to defend or fight for these values, which would “make the cut,” and in what order they would be listed.


Finally, list your top 3 values below:

1.                                                                                


2.                                                                                


3.                                                                                


The purpose of this activity is to bring your attention to the core guidelines of what you want from your life.  Oftentimes, when we live outside of or even distanced from these values, there begins to be an emotional toll.  Knowing our values and living in accordance with these ideals is central to our overall quality and sustainability in life.  In clarifying the principles most important to you, you can use this information to evaluate situations and choices in your life in order to help you make decisions and changes to move toward value-congruent living.

Asia Backpacking Packing List

 Four weeks from tomorrow, I'll be boarding an airplane for four weeks in Asia! 

Here's the current plan:
  • Bangkok
  • Ao Nang/Krabi
  • Chiang Mai
  • Siem Reap
  • Phnom Penh
  • Bali
That means for packing, I need beach/island clothes, city clothes, jungle clothes, and temple clothes (gotta cover up!)  All need to be appropriate for sweltering weather and all need to fit in a 27-liter carry-on backpack!

This one is really going to test me.  Here's what I'm planning on bringing:






  • Clothes
    • Bottoms
      • One pair of denim shorts
      • One pair of loose-fitting lightweight black pants
      • One pair of black yoga pants
    • Tops
      • One white short-sleeved t-shirt
      • One black v-neck t-shirt
      • One black tank top
      • One orange 3/4 sleeved top
      • One black sleeveless tunic
      • One denim button-up shirt (to use as a shirt or as a layer for chilly transportation)
      • Two grey workout tops, one sleeveless, one short-sleeved
    • Dresses
      • One black short-sleeved dress
      • One blue short-sleeved dress
    • Misc.
      • Sleep t-shirt
      • Sleep shorts
      • Rain jacket (not pictured)
      • Two bathing suits
      • Underwear, bra, sports bra
  • Shoes
    • One pair Chacos/sport sandals for hiking and water activities
    • One pair of Birkenstock sandals for walking and going out
  • Misc.
    • Quick-dry travel towel
    • Dry bag
    • Day pack (packable if necessary)
    • Toiletries & liquids (may do another post listing these!)
    • Travel gear
      • Inflatable neck pillow
      • Silk eye mask
      • Headphones
      • Phone charger
      • iPhone
      • Ear plugs

  

I am thrilled beyond belief to be getting this opportunity!  I'll do another post once I'm out there to follow up with what I miss and what I would ditch next time. 



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