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Recovery Workshop: Extra
The following are common values that people might use to rebuild their life. Your goal is not to embrace these values because they sound good, but to really look at who you are and adopt those that you want to become a part of you.
Examples of Commonly Pursued Values
- Living with integrity
- Living with compassion
- Sharing my true self with the world around me
- Strengthening my role as a partner to (add partner’s name here)
- Strengthening my role as a son/daughter
- Strengthening my role as a brother to (add your siblings name here)
- Strengthening my role as a (add relationship here) to (add person/group here)
- Strengthening my role as a close friend to (add friend’s name here)
- Strengthening my role as a coworker
- Being an inspiration to others
- Being dedicated
- Showing appreciation towards other
- Being tenacious in my pursuit of (add pursuit)
- Being charitable, giving
- Developing intellectual depth
- Expressing spirituality in my day-to-day life
- Enhancing my spiritual awareness
- Integrating religion into my day-to-day life
- Bringing joy to others
- Providing quality in my work
- Establishing competence in my field
- Being respected as a professional by others
- Being playful
- Staying active
- Being dependable
- Being reliable
- Working as part of a team
- Honesty
- Humbleness
- Sense of humor
- Sense of responsibility
- Being considerate of others
- Being considerate of myself
- Putting other’s needs before my own
- Taking care of myself
- Being a role model for my family
- Being a role model for others
- Living an exciting life
- Living an adventurous life
- Loving others
- Being loved by others
- Being challenged; overcoming challenges
- Competition
- Developing emotional maturity
- Risk-taking (danger)
- Pursuing a career change
- Creativity
- Striving for excellence
- Establishing financial freedom
- Experiencing fatherhood
- Adopting a child
- Establishing a partnership w/someone
- Overcoming/surviving personal struggles
- Physical health
- Physical beauty
- Being a teacher/mentor
- Physical pleasure
- Sexual intimacy
- Sexual contact
- Experiencing euphoria
- Feeling sexually desired
- Feeling appreciated
- Feeling masculine
- Feeling feminine
- Feeling empowered
- Passionate about life
- Being recognized as an expert in my field
- World-wide recognition
- Developing sustained friendships
- Encouraging my wife's independence
- Being validated by others
- Being respected
- Being judged trustworthy
- Feeling unconditional love
- Indulging in creative inspiration, development
- Developing patience
- Living a humble life
- Sharing my true self with the world around me
- Nurturing children’s creativity/maturation
- Developing superficial friendships
- Being known as reliable
- Wisdom
- Connected to my own feelings
- Being identified by others as charming and warm
- Being a survivor
- Companionship
- Resourcefulness
- Appreciating natural beauty/nature
- Integrity
- Connecting to purpose, meaning of life
- Establishing my legacy
- Organization
- Instilling healthy values in my kids
- Teaching appreciation for music, art, film
- Adaptability
- Financial stability
- Personal independence
- Feeling needed, desired, loved by others
- Power
- Control
- Experiencing uniqueness
- Curiosity
- Experiencing the forbidden
- Avoiding conflict
- Improving my social interactions
- Being a leader
- Vulnerability
- Sacrificing for others
- Fidelity
- Walking the same path as equals
- Sexual intimacy
- Physical attraction/Beauty
- Masculinity
- Building things
- Intellectual growth, debate, communication
- Communicating feelings
- Experienced in conflict resolution
- Taking care of others in need
- Feeling happy and content
- Pressure to accomplish
- Accepting responsibility for living my life
- Be known as truthful and honest
- Sense of accomplishment
- Feeling challenged
- Friendship
- Forgiveness
- Realistic
- Personal growth, development
- Selflessness/Altruism
- Respecting Mother Earth
- Open-minded to the beliefs and values of others, tolerance
- Self-discipline
- Raising a healthy child
- Guiding, teaching, role modeling for my children
Another wonderful resource for exploring your values is a website called Humanity Quest. Feel free to search there for additional examples. And, to return there as needed for assistance with value development.
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