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Knowing Your Values

Activity: Your Love Is Like a Red Red Rose

Learning Goal: To help learners uncover their values. To help them develop self-awareness and independent thinking, build creative confidence, enhance motivation, and strengthen their moral compass.

Values are simply what you value in your life. They help you determine what is important to you in both the long term and the short. These underlying beliefs influence your behavior and motivate your actions—the ones you take and the ones you don’t take.

Values motivate you. They push you. Let them. Get good at letting them push you. Values matter because they are present in everything we do, but they also hide in our actions— they are not always self-evident and not often self-examined. By airing your values, you have the opportunity to examine and evolve your sense of purpose as you gain experience and wisdom.

The aim of this activity is to help you develop self-awareness and a deeper understanding of what motivates you.

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