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Your Core Values and Your Life—Do They Match?
By Geraldine T. Merola, Ph.D.
Most forms of psychotherapy are concerned, in one form or another, with modifying behaviors and reaching goals.
In order to feel successful, though, your goals and behaviors need to be in harmony with your core self. Within your core self lie your deepest yearnings, values, beliefs and traits. The more in sync your life style is with your core self, the more balanced and joyful your life becomes. What better definition of success?
This is a work sheet to help you answer this question: How closely does your life description reflect your core self?
This isn’t a quickie quiz. It’s meant to be done thoughtfully when you have the time and motivation. You may prefer to do it a little at a time. Feel free to print out this work sheet. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers. Highlight any items that you would like to work on improving.
You may share this work sheet with others for non-commercial purposes only, with the condition that my identifying and copyright information be kept intact.
1- These are my good qualities (list all you can think of and ask for input from people who know you well):
2- These are qualities about myself which I do not like:
3- I am passionately interested in:
4- This is what is most important to me:
5- This is what I am good at (talents, skills and aptitudes):
6- My job utilizes these of my good qualities, interests, talents, skills and aptitudes:
7- These are the aspects of my job that do not match my qualities, interests, talents, skills and aptitudes:
8- This is what I want to accomplish professionally:
9- This is what I want to accomplish personally:
10- If I learned I had one week to live, this is what I would regret:
11- If I died today, this is how I would be remembered by my family:
12- If I died today, this is how I would be remembered by friends and co-workers:
13- This is how someone observing all of my behaviors over the last two months would describe what I believe is right and wrong:
14- This is how someone observing all of my behaviors in the last two months would describe my priorities (for example, children, spouse, work, recreation, friends, exercise, self-nurturing, financial, tv, computer, etc.):
15- I thrive on these aspects of my life (for example, children, career, socializing, entertaining, deadlines, athletics, etc.):
Copyright 2004. Geraldine T. Merola, Ph.D.
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