What Do You Value?
Knowing what you value, and working toward these values (not with a perfectionistic state of mind, but as a process) can greatly increase your confidence, sense of centeredness/calm, and purpose/meaning in life.
UNIVERSAL VALUES
• Justice
• Teamwork, interpersonal
• Fairness, leadership
• Humanity
• Tend and befriend, interpersonal
• Love, kindness, generosity
• Temperance
• Protect against excess
• Forgiveness, humility, prudence, self-control
• Wisdom
• Acquisition and use of knowledge (re: human condition, pragmatics of life, ways of managing/understanding life)
• Creativity, curiosity, perspective, balanced advice, open-mindedness
• Courage
• Emotional strength- achieve goals against opposition
• Authenticity, bravery, perseverance
• Transcendence
• Connection to greater picture, meaning
• Gratitude, hope, spirituality
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• Buddhism- benevolence, compassion, joy, equanimity
• Aristotlian- wit, friendliness, truthfulness
• Christian- charity, faith, hope

• Strengths of the Heart
• Gratitude, hope, love
• Strengths of the Head
• Curiosity, perseverance, love of learning
• Q. Which more correlated with Life Satisfaction ratings?

• Focus-oriented (develop personal strengths)
• Balance-oriented (develop harmony with self/others)