Mindfully Safe Challenge
Step three: Values and priorities
Welcome to day three, you’re halfway through. How do you feel? Take a few minutes to bring gratitude to the self. You’ve continuously chosen to do this and that, in itself is an accomplishment. Here’s a gold star, you A++ student.
Today, we’ll be thinking about what we want in life and out of life. What is the end goal? What purpose will we set for ourselves so we can commit towards living a fuller, more engaging
life?
Let’s start with Values. What are some of the values that matter to you right now? Pick from the list on the following page or write down your very own.
Aim for 10 values:
- Accountability
- Accuracy
- Achievement
- Adventurousness
- Altruism
- Ambition
- Assertiveness
- Balance
- Being the best
- Belonging
- Boldness
- Calmness
- Carefulness
- Challenge
- Cheerfulness
- Clear-mindedness
- Commitment
- Community
- Compassion
- Competitiveness
- Consistency
- Contentment
- Continuous -
- Improvement
- Contribution
- Control
- Cooperation
- Correctness
- Courtesy
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Decisiveness
- Democraticness
- Dependability
- Determination
- Devoutness
- Diligence
- Discipline
- Discretion
- Diversity
- Dynamism
- Economy
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Elegance
- Empathy
- Enjoyment
- Enthusiasm
- Equality
- Excellence
- Excitement
- Expertise
- Exploration
- Expressiveness
- Fairness
- Faith
- Familyorientedness
- Fidelity
- Fitness
- Fluency
- Focus
- Freedom
- Fun
- Generosity
- Goodness
- Grace
- Growth
- Happiness
- Hard Work
- Health
- Helping Society
- Holiness
- Honesty
- Honor
- Humility
- Independence
- Ingenuity
- Inner Harmony
- Inquisitiveness
- Insightfulness
- Intelligence
- Intellectual Status
- Intuition
- Joy
- Justice
- Leadership
- Legacy
- Love
- Loyalty
- Making a
- difference
- Mastery
- Merit
- Obedience
- Openness
- Order
- Originality
- Patriotism
- Perfection
- Piety
- Positivity
- Practicality
- Preparedness
- Professionalism
- Prudence
- Qualityorientation
- Reliability
- Resourcefulness
- Restraint
- Results-oriented
- Rigor
- Security
- Self-actualization
- Self-control
- Selflessness
- Self-reliance
- Sensitivity
- Serenity
- Service
- Shrewdness
- Simplicity
- Soundness
- Speed
- Spontaneity
- Stability
- Strategic
- Strength
- Structure
- Success
- Support
- Teamwork
- Temperance
- Thankfulness
- Thoroughness
- Thoughtfulness
- Timeliness
- Tolerance
- Traditionalism
- Trustworthiness
- Truth-seeking
- Understanding
- Uniqueness
- Unity
- Usefulness
- Vision
- Vitality
Next, we’ll look at what’s important to you. Below is a list of 21 items that most consider to be important in life. What are your top six priorities?
- Creativity
- Education or learning
- Family
- Friends
- Health & fitness
- Income
- Independence
- Influence and power
- Making use of talents
- Personal growth
- Positive impact on
- society
- Prestige and status
- Professional growth
- Security
- Spirituality/faith
- Spouse/partner
- Stimulating/rewarding
- work
- Time for leisure/
- relaxation
- Travel
- Wealth/savings
- Where you live
Consider how these values and priorities align with your life right now? Are you on the right path? What needs to change? What can YOU change?