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Values
Understanding your values is the beginning of living in line with them.
Below are a selection of tools that many use to define, clarify, measure and otherwise better understand their own values. Feel free to use any, all -- or none of these on your values journey.
Barrett Values Centre
Our values reflect what is important to us. They are a shorthand way of describing our individual and collective motivations. Together with beliefs, they are the causal factors that drive our decision-making.
Barrett Values Centre® provides tools to help you to think about what is important to you, what motivates you, and to identify areas where you may want to develop further.
Who you are, what you hold dear, what upsets you and what underlies your decisions are all connected to your values.
Learn about your own values by taking the FREE Barrett Values Personal Values Assessment
Learn what values are, and more about why values are important by checking out Barrett's Mapping Values
Franklin Covey
You have a purpose in life. You know in your heart what's most important to you. In fact, your mission and values are expressed every day, by how you live –- you just may not realize it. Franklin Covey is there to help you find the right words to put that mission down on paper.
The Franklin Covey Mission Statement Builder -- Live with Purpose
The process of writing a personal Mission Statement will help you discover your values and principles. You'll type the first responses that come to mind and then use your answers to free-write your own mission statement.
Go to the Franklin Covey FREE Mission Statement Builder.
Meyers Briggs Personality Test
The mission of the Myers & Briggs Foundation is to continue the pioneering work of Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers in the field of psychological type, especially the ethical and accurate use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument.
"It is up to each person to recognize his or her true preferences." Isabel Briggs Myers
From the Myers & Briggs Foundation Charter
Take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Instrument (MBTI) for a cost to the Myers Briggs Foundation.
A FREE option that is similar to, but not the same as Myers Briggs, can be taken from 16 Personalities.
Another FREE option that may be useful to you is the Personality Hacker Genius Personality Test which also has options for exploring how you can leverage your personality understanding.
NOTE: The type codes used by 16 Personalities are similar to those shared by a number of diverse theories and approaches such as Socionics, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Keirsey Temperament Sorter, Linda Berens’ Interaction Styles etc. However, while the acronyms adopted by different theories may be identical or very similar, their meanings do not always overlap – consequently, you should not assume that, for instance, INTj in Socionics is identical to INTJ-A as defined and described by 16 Personalities, or to the INTJ definition on a different website.