Light house exercise
From the book
About the exercise and step 1
What triggers most people and drain their energy is being challenged on their values often. This listening exercise gives you the opportunity to be aware of your top values. When knowing what your top values are, it becomes easier to navigate and make decisions in your life.
Here you will be guided to think about, visualize and find out what your top values are. By that, it will be possible for you to increase your energy and make better decisions for yourself.
Before entering this exercise, you need to be aware of the following:
- Make sure that your phone is on silent mode, and that no one will disturb you for the next 20 minutes.
- Find a pen and a piece of paper.
- Put yourself in a comfortable position – you can either sit or lay down.
When you have completed this, you are now ready to dive into the first step of the exercise, using the link below.
Step 2 - List of values
When finished with listening to the audio file you’re now ready to narrow down your top 3 values. So, the questions are: What are your top two or three values? And: If you were to choose one as the most important, which one would it be?
Use the list of words below for inspiration or choose values that are not related to the ideas in this list.
Altruism
Ambition
Recognition
Responsibility
Heritage
Authenticity
Balance
Contribute
Useful
Diversity
Efficiency
Simplicity
Ethics
Adventure
Fairness
Family
Financial
Flexibility
Understanding
Parenthood
Peace
Freedom
Leisure
Fellowship
Generosity
Joy
Harmony
Hierarchy
Home
Team spirit
Humor
Hope
Initiative
Inclusion
Integrity
Intuition
Creativity
Quality
Love
Leadership
Equality
Loyalty
Education
Might
Sympathy
Environment
Courage
Nature
Curiosity
Mercy
Care
Ingenuity
Achievement
Optimism
Propriety
Passion
Patriotism
Dependability
Relationship
Respect
Justice
Riches
Cooperation
Truth
Self-discipline
Self-respect
Self-worth
Safety
Tranquility
Amusement
Beauty
Thrift
Spirituality
Stability
Pride
Success
Health
Vulnerability
Gratitude
Teamwork
Time
Contentment
Satisfaction
Forgiveness
Confidence
Tradition
Well-being
Faith
Patience
Independence
Development
Unique
Persistence
Friendliness
Friendship
Knowledge
Wisdom
Vision
Growth
Dignity
Humility
Honesty
Openness
Step 3 - Your Presence
Our values are principles that we hold as important to live by – when we live them, they positively shape our thoughts, actions and others’ experience of us.
While many of us align with some basic values like honesty, equality, or integrity, we also all identify with two or three values that specifically shape who we are. For example, the core values of Mother Theresa might be love and service, whereas the core values of Usain Bolt might be excellence and speed. The clearer we are on these values that make us unique, the more likely we are to be able to express our authenticity in our work.
Therefor after choosing your core values you can start reflecting how to live them with help from these questions:
REGARDING MY CHOSEN VALUES. Why are these important to me?
WHAT BEHAVIORS WILL I SHOW MORE OF? How do I want others to experience interactions with me?
HOW WILL I LIVE MY TRUTH? How should I spend my time? Tell stories? Leave an impression?
