Day 3 "Your Life Values"

As a member of Toastmasters, I am always looking for ideas for speeches. As I started reading today's lesson, the thought came to me that this would be a perfect topic for a speech.

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This lesson has us look at our values whether they are weak or strong, plus values that we would like to have in our lives. To help us decide which values we would like, we were given a list of several hundred values. The exercise was to go through this list and check off all of the values that are important in all areas of our life.

Once all of the values are checked we were to go through the eight categories of life (from day 1) and list the values under each category. After they are listed we go through each category and rank them according to their importance to us.

I found this exercise to be somewhat difficult as I didn't even know the meaning of some of the words. I guess if I don't know the meaning the value isn't all that important to me.

Here are the values that I chose for each area, in no particular order.

Health Values:

• Discipline
• Endurance
• Energy
• Strength
• Fitness
• Flexibility
• Health
• Recreation

Money Values:

• Wealth
• Professionalism
• Prosperity
• Giving
• Generosity
• Financial Independence
• Commitment
• Success
• Stability
• Investing
• Abundance

Family Values:

• Devotion
• Enjoyment
• Family
• Loyalty
• Love
• Kindness
• Stability
• Happiness
• Fun
• Recreation

Personal Development Values:

• Accomplishment
• Celebrity
• Discipline
• Education
  
• Excellence
• Learning
• Skillfulness
• Success
• Concentration
• Perseverance
  

Career Values:

• Drive
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Motivation
• Service
• Skillfulness
• Success
• Dependability
• Reliability
• Trustworthiness
  

Recreational Values:

• Amusement
• Celebrity
• Endurance
• Entertainment
• Family
• Strength
• Fun
• Recreation
• Relaxation

Spirituality Values:

• Devotion
• Discipline
• Faith
• Joy
• Love
• Meekness
• Spirituality
• Charity
• Giving
• Holiness

Outcomes Values:

• Accomplishment
• Ambition
• Diligence
• Endurance
  
• Learning
• Motivation
  
• Optimism

Now to start living my values more effectively. I am supposed to work toward values that are weak or non existent. By doing this, those values will become more and more a part of my core values.