You can create your personal vision in less than 15 minutes by using vision exercises and by asking vision questions. You can use the same exercises and questions to discover your personal values. Previously, we have talked vision exercises and vision questions, in this post we’ll use these two tools to discover your personal values.


Vision Exercises

Vision exercises are great tools for creating a personal vision. These vision exercises can be used to discover personal and core values too. Vision exercises mentioned in Create Vision Statements with Vision Exercises – Part 1 and Part 2 can be further explored to discover personal values. Here we modify the 6 vision exercises to use them to discover your personal values.

  1. With the End in Mind – Read the vision exercise 1 before proceeding further. Now answer these questions. What would you want the four speakers to say about your values? What would you want them to say about your character and your guiding principles?
  2. Your Superb Lifetime – Read vision exercise 2 and then read ahead. What personal values do you need to getting to this superb life? What personal values do you like in people around you?
  3. Can’t Live Without and Want to Get Rid of – The next four vision exercises are mentioned in the post using vision exercises. As described in the exercise, divide a piece of paper and label “Can’t Live Without” and “Want to Get Rid of”. In the Can’t Live Without column please write any of the values that you feel you feel are important and would like in you life. For the Want to Get Rid of think about your past behavior and write everything you wish was different in your personality.
  4. Genie Exercise – What are the three things you asked for yourself, your family and community in this exercise? Do these tell you what values are important to you?
  5. Retirement Day – What values do you want your colleagues, your employees to have seen in you?
  6. Your Legacy – Think about your grandchildren. What values would you like them to have seen in you? Which values would you want your life to be defined by? What adjective would you want people to use when describing your life?

By adding just few more lines to the vision exercises, you can discover your personal and core values.

Vision Questions

Just like vision exercises, vision questions can be used to discover your personal values. Vision questions can be a powerful way for creating your personal vision. Similar approach can be used to discover your personal values. Asking questions, like those for creating personal vision statements, will be a thought-provoking adventure.

So You Discovered Your Personal Values…

Most people discover their values and stop. They believe discovering personal values or core values will help them reach the pinnacle of success, and then they fail. Just discovering the values will not help. They next step is to define what each of those value mean to you and then develop these values and use them in your daily life. The next posts will be about defining your values and developing them. Be the first one to get these articles. Subscribe via RSS or subscribe via email and get the next from Chat at the Cooler.

Do you or your organization has a values statement? Did you discover your values? Did I miss something? Talk to us through comments.

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Related Posts:

  1. How to Discover Your Personal Values in Less Than 10 minutes
  2. Creating Vision Statements with Vision Exercises
  3. Creating Vision Statements with Vision Exercises – Part 2