Values Clarification Worksheet

Assessment & Discovery Tools

Identify your core values, rank them by importance,
and assess how well your current life reflects them.

What This Worksheet Surfaces

Values clarification does two things that most people assume they have already done. First, it separates what you actually value from what you have been told to value - by your industry, your upbringing, or the version of yourself you built in your twenties. Second, it reveals which values are currently active in your decisions and which are being quietly ignored.

The most common pattern: people name values like "family" or "integrity" without recognizing that most of their time and energy goes to entirely different priorities. That gap is not a character flaw - it is information. The discomfort it surfaces is exactly what makes coaching possible.

What tends to go wrong: the values bank makes it easy to pick aspirational words rather than honest ones. Pick the values that describe how you actually make decisions, not the ones you wish guided you more.

The steps below move from identification to ranking to alignment - each one narrows the picture to what is most actionable in your coaching work right now.

How to Use This Worksheet

  1. Circle your values. From the list on the next page, circle every value that genuinely resonates. Do not filter yet - just notice what catches your attention.
  2. Narrow to your top ten. From what you circled, select the ten that feel most essential to who you are. Cross out the rest.
  3. Rank your top five. From your ten, identify the five you could not comfortably sacrifice. Rank them 1 through 5, with 1 being most essential.
  4. Assess alignment. For each of your top five, rate how well your current life reflects that value on a scale from 1 (barely) to 10 (fully).
  5. Bring the gaps to your session. The values with the lowest alignment scores are where the conversation starts.
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Values Bank

Step 1: Circle every value that resonates. Step 2: Narrow to your top 10. Step 3: Star your top 5 and rank them.

Achievement
Adventure
Authenticity
Balance
Belonging
Challenge
Collaboration
Commitment
Community
Compassion
Competence
Connection
Courage
Creativity
Curiosity
Discipline
Empathy
Excellence
Fairness
Faith
Family
Financial Security
Freedom
Generosity
Growth
Health
Honesty
Humility
Impact
Independence
Innovation
Integrity
Joy
Justice
Kindness
Leadership
Learning
Loyalty
Mindfulness
Optimism
Partnership
Patience
Perseverance
Purposefulness
Recognition
Relationships
Resilience
Respect
Responsibility
Security
Self-Reliance
Service
Simplicity
Spirituality
Stability
Trust
Wealth
Wisdom
Work-Life Balance
Other: ________
Other: ________
Other: ________
Other: ________
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Ranking & Alignment

Write your top 5 values in ranked order. Then rate how well your current life reflects each one (1 = barely, 10 = fully).

Rank My Core Value Alignment
(1-10)
1
2
3
4
5
Where the Gap Is Largest

For the value with the lowest alignment score, describe what is getting in the way.

Value:
What gets in the way:

Before your next session:

Look at the value you ranked #1. Think of one decision you made in the past month that directly honored it - and one that contradicted it. What does that tell you about where your attention actually goes?

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