What are your values?

What is important to you? Try to reduce the list down to 20 or so, then to your choice of ten and then, only if you can, down to your top five. Add your own if they're not on this list from the interweb


Abundance
Acceptance
Accomplishment
Achievement
Acknowledgement
Activity
Adaptability
Adoration
Adventure
Affection
Affluence
Aggressiveness
Alertness
Altruism
Ambition
Amusement
Anticipation
Appreciation
Approachability
Assertiveness
Attentiveness
Attractiveness
Availability
Awareness
Balance
Beauty
Being the best
Belonging
Boldness
Bravery
Brilliance
Calmness
Candour
Capability
Caring
Carefulness
Certainty
Challenge
Charity
Charm
Chastity
Cheerfulness
Cleanliness
Clear-mindedness
Cleverness
Comfort
Commitment
Compassion
Completion
Composure
Concentration
Confidence
Conformity
Connection
Consciousness
Consistency
Contentment
Continuity
Contribution
Control
Conviction
Coolness
Cooperation
Cordiality
Correctness
Courage
Courtesy
Craftiness
Creativity
Credibility
Cunning
Curiosity
Daring
Decisiveness
Deference
Delight
Dependability
Depth
Desire
Determination
Devotion
Devoutness
Dignity
Diligence
Directness
Discipline
Discovery
Discretion
Diversity
Dominance
Dreaming
Drive
Duty
Eagerness
Economy
Ecstasy
Education
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Elation
Elegance
Empathy
Encouragement
Endurance
Energy
Enjoyment
Entertainment
Enthusiasm
Excellence
Excitement
Exhilaration
Experience
Expertise
Exploration
Expressiveness
Extravagance
Extroversion
Exuberance
Fairness
Faith
Fame
Family
Fashion
Fearlessness
Ferocity
Fidelity
Fierceness
Financial independence
Firmness
Fitness
Flexibility
Flow
Fluency
Focus
Fortitude
Frankness
Freedom
Friendliness
Fun
Gallantry
Generosity
Gentility
Giving
Graceful
Gratitude
Growth
Guidance
Happiness
Harmony
Health
Heart
Helpfulness
Heroism
Holiness
Honesty
Honor
Hopefulness
Hospitality
Humility
Humour
Hygiene
Imagination
Impact
Impartiality
Independence
Industry
Inquisitiveness
Insightfulness
Inspiration
Integrity
Intelligence
Intensity
Intimacy
Introversion
Intuition
Intuitiveness
Inventiveness
Investing
Joy
Justice
Keenness
Kindness
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Liberty
Liveliness
Logic
Longevity
Love
Loyalty
Making a difference
Mastery
Maturity
Meekness
Mellowness
Meticulousness
Mindfulness
Modesty
Motivation
Mysteriousness
Neatness
Nerve
Obedience
Open-mindedness
Optimism
Order
Organisation
Originality
Outrageousness
Passion
Peace
Perceptiveness
Perfection
Perseverance
Persistence
Persuasiveness
Philanthropy
Piety
Playfulness
Pleasantness
Pleasure
Poise
Polish
Popularity
Potency
Power
Practicality
Precision
Preparedness
Privacy
Proactivity
Professionalism
Prosperity
Prudence
Punctuality
Purity
Realism
Reason
Reasonableness
Recognition
Recreation
Refinement
Reflection
Relaxation
Reliability
Religiousness
Resilience
Resolution
Resolve
Resourcefulness
Respect
Rest
Restraint
Reverence
Richness
Rigor
Sacrifice
Saintliness
Satisfaction
Security
Self-control
Selflessness
Self-reliance
Sensitivity
Sensuality
Serenity
Service
Sexuality
Sharing
Shrewdness
Significance
Silence
Silliness
Simplicity
Sincerity
Skillfulness
Solitude
Soundness
Speed
Spirit
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Stability
Stealth
Stillness
Strength
Structure
Success
Support
Surprise
Sympathy
Synergy
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankfulness
Thoroughness
Thoughtfulness
Tidiness
Timeliness
Traditionalism
Tranquility
Trustworthiness
Truth
Understanding
Unflappability
Uniqueness
Unity
Usefulness
Utility
Valour
Variety
Victory
Vigour
Virtue
Vision
Vitality
Vivacity
Warmth
Watchfulness
Wealth
Willfulness
Willingness
Winning
Wisdom
Wittiness
Wonder
Youthfulness

"Unflappability" - this is the funniest word ever

Empathy
Generosity
Harmony
Honesty
Humility
Kindness
Love
Loyalty
Respect
Sensitivity

Sorry, it was difficult enoguh to choose just 10, I couldn't reduce it to 5

Lea said:

I am sorry it seems to me impossible to choose only 10. I am not modest here because I like them nearly all & think they are generally important. It would seem to me more sensible to weed out those which are NOT very important to me.

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*Amy* said:

Sorry, it was difficult enoguh to choose just 10, I couldn't reduce it to 5

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Agreed, it was hard enough for me to reduce to 10. I've edited it to sound more flexible. Weeding out the non-important ones is probably the best way to do it and is interesting in itself.

10? Ok, I'll narrow it down the best I can.

Considerate (not on list)
Self-control
Dreaming
Humility
Selflessness
Honesty
Open-mindedness
Cleverness
Depth
Perfection

edit:Oh, I must of skipped over uniqueness, definitely that one.

I dunno if I can choose 10 out of the 20 (which during my first go through I had 20 picked out EXACTLY o-O )

Here they are.

Acknowledgement
Caring
Devotion
Dreaming
Ecstasy
Encouragement
Fairness
Friendliness
Fun
Happiness
Imagination
Intimacy
Love
Loyalty
Passion
Playfulness
Rest
Selflessness
Understanding
Warmth

I value chocolate chip cookies

And I'm sure chocolate chip cookies have coyotes on their list as well

This is a good test also of not overthinking... which is easy to do with all of these words in front of me.


Balance
Belonging
Freedom
Health
Sharing
Serenity
Simplicity
Truth
Understanding
Vitality

Well I try to treat people by how I want to be treated,unless they do something to me,then I dont really care about them or what happens to them.

Honor
Respect
Dignity
Discipline
Truth
Decency
Freedom
Loyalty
Courage
Humility

Activity,
Balance,
Love,
Loyalty,
and
Passion....

top 10 would be..

Understanding
Caring
Connection
Happiness
Heart
Enthusiasm
Perfection :/
Sincerity
Liberty
Trustworthiness

and five...

Understanding
Perfection
Happiness
Caring
Connection

My 20:
Acceptance
Adventure
Belonging
Creativity
Dreaming
Empathy
Expressiveness
Freedom
Friendliness
Happiness
Humour
Imagination
Love
Modesty
Open-mindedness
Privacy
Spirit
Understanding
Warmth
Youthfulness

Top 5:
Dreaming
Empathy
Modesty
Spirit
Warmth

Intelligence
Sense
Tolerance
Ignorance
Tactic
Approach
Resilience
Achievement
Grammar
Difference
Realism
Rationalism
Willingness
Adherence
Variety
Soul
Pity

Top 20:

Love,
Intelligence,
Honesty,
Altruism,
Beauty,
Compassion,
Creativity,
Dreaming,
Truth,
Imagination,
Fitness,
Wisdom,
Happiness,
Health,
Knowledge,
Peace,
Reliability,
Self-control,
Silliness,
Spirituality

Top 10:

Intelligence,
Truth,
Love,
Wisdom,
Health,
Silliness,
Dreaming,
Altruism,
Knowledge,
Happiness

Top 5:

Love,
Intelligence,
Truth,
Altruism,
Happiness.

I like twiggle's short list of values. 3 very important things that I also believe in. So with that in mind, I'm not really going by the rules for the post either. But I have a list of values written down and here they are. I actually haven't looked at them much recently but I used to change them quite a bit. Maybe I should go through them again and reprioritize since I haven't in awhile.

Social
- Accept myself as I am
- Be content with what I have
- Respect all people and care about them
- Connect with people and improve socially
- Believe in myself and be confident
- Enjoy the journey and be present
- Feel useful and part of a team

Personal
- Have a clear purpose
- Achieve flow by doing things I enjoy
- Think positive and be optimistic
- Simplify to what's important
- Focus on one thing at a time
- Start small and take the first step
- Create habits to reach goals

WeirdyMcGee said:

Integrity
Compassion

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Probably the best two on that list.
Especially integrity.

I admire people who are honest with tact and people who use common sense and compassion as opposed to just being told what to do.

I also like people who can admit they are wrong and no how to apologize without seeing it as a threat to their ego.

I would really suck as a cop or a soldier.