Encouraging Personal and Professional Success Through Balance
by Karl W. Palachuk
Encouraging Personal and Professional Success Through Balance
by Karl W. Palachuk
What are the most important things in your life?
There are many lists of values available on the Internet. Here's one I published in the book Relax Focus Succeed® in 2007.
What's that you say? Who cares?
At the very root of working on your own happiness, you need to figure out what you believe in, what you stand for. It might sound grant, but you need to figure out your purpose in life!
That work start with trying to figure out what's important to you. From this long list of values, pick about ten that you consider the most important in your life. Write them down and set them aside.
After you've had some time to let this sink in, narrow down the list to only 3-5 values. Go over them again and again. You should be completely comfortable with this short list: These values are more important to you than any others.
Only when you're done with this exercise can you move on to the next step: translating these values into the daily actions in your life. That's discussed here.
Now here's that list of values:
Abundance
Acceptance
Accomplishment
Accountability
Accuracy
Achievement
Activeness
Adaptability
Advancement
Adventure
Affection
Affluence
Aggressiveness
Agility
Alertness
Altruism
Ambition
Amusement
Approachability
Assertiveness
Attentiveness
Attractiveness
Audacity
Authority
Awareness
Balance
Beauty
Belonging
Benevolence
Bliss
Boldness
Bravery
Brilliance
Calmness
Camaraderie
Candor
Capability
Carefulness
Certainty
Challenging
Change
Charity
Charm
Chastity
Cheerfulness
Clarity
Cleanliness
Clear-mindedness
Cleverness
Closeness
Collaboration
Comfort
Commitment
Communication
Community
Compassion
Competence
Competition
Composure
Confidence
Conformity
Consistency
Contentment
Continuity
Control
Cooperation
Coordination
Courage
Courtesy
Craftiness
Creativity
Credibility
Cunning
Curiosity
Decisiveness
Decorum
Democracy
Dependability
Determination
Devotion
Devoutness
Difference
Dignity
Diligence
Directness
Discipline
Discretion
Dominance
Dreaming
Drive
Duty
Dynamic
Eagerness
Education
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Elegance
Empathy
Encouragement
Endurance
Energetic
Enjoyment
Entertainment
Enthusiasm
Equality
Excellence
Excitement
Exhilaration
Expediency
Expertise
Exploration
Extravagance
Extroversion
Exuberance
Fairness
Faith
Fame
Family
Fearlessness
Ferocity
Fidelity
Fierceness
Fitness
Flexibility
Focus
Fortitude
Frankness
Freedom
Friendliness
Frugality
Fun
Gallantry
Generosity
Gentility
Giving
Goodness
Gratitude
Gregariousness
Growth
Happiness
Harmony
Health
Helpfulness
Heroism
Holiness
Honesty
Honor
Hopefulness
Hospitality
Humility
Humor
Imagination
Impact
Impartiality
Improvememt
Independence
Industry
Influence
Ingenuity
Innovation
Inquisitiveness
Insightfulness
Inspiration
Integrity
Intellectual
Intelligence
Intensity
Intimacy
Introversion
Intuitiveness
Inventiveness
Judiciousness
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Liberty
Liveliness
Logic
Longevity
Love
Loyalty
Maturity
Mellowness
Merit
Meticulousness
Mindfulness
Modesty
Money
Mysteriousness
Non-violence
Obedience
Open-mindedness
Openness
Optimism
Order
Organization
Originality
Outlandishness
Outrageousness
Passion
Peace
Perceptiveness
Perfection
Perkiness
Perseverance
Persistence
Persuasiveness
Philanthropy
Piety
Playfulness
Pleasantness
Pleasure
Poise
Polish
Popularity
Power
Practicality
Pragmatism
Precision
Preparedness
Privacy
Professionalism
Progress
Prosperity
Prudence
Punctuality
Purity
Quality
Realism
Reason
Reasonableness
Recognition
Refinement
Reflection
Regularity
Relaxation
Reliability
Religion
Reputation
Resilience
Resourcefulness
Respect
Responsibility
Responsiveness
Rest
Restraint
Results-oriented
Reverence
Risk
Romance
Sacrifice
Safety
Saintliness
Satisfaction
Security
Self-control
Self-reliance
Self-respect
Selflessness
Sensitivity
Sensuality
Serenity
Service
Sexuality
Shrewdness
Silence
Simplicity
Sincerity
Skillfulness
Solitude
Sophistication
Speed
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Spunk
Stability
Standardization
Stillness
Strength
Success
Support
Supremacy
Surprise
Sympathy
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankfulness
Thoroughness
Thoughtfulness
Thrift
Thrilling
Tidiness
Time
Timeliness
Tolerance
Tradition
Tranquility
Trust
Trustworthiness
Truth
Understanding
Unflappability
Utility
Valor
Variety
Victory
Vigor
Virtue
Vision
Vitality
Warmth
Watchfulness
Wealth
Winning
Wisdom
Wittiness
Wonder
Work
Youthfulness
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Last modified: 3/28/2011
