I did acceptance and commitment therapy once, and I loved it- why?
Because we didn’t focus on my bad experiences but the focus was on filling my time and my mind with the good things I wanted in my life.
My therapist made me do an exercise about values. Gave me one hundred pieces of paper the size of fortune cookies inserts. I was suppose to pick FIVE out of at least one hundred little pieces of paper.
It was hard because all values seemed "important", so I did it in two or three goes, subdividing them into "more important" and "less important", and "not sure"—I don’t remember exactly—but you get the point. I ended up with five which I can't remember what I chose but surely I wrote them somewhere!
YOUR TURN
Now, for you who will try this:
I just found this great little video about values vs. goals, which will help you consider what we are talking about here in terms of values:
THE LISTS
I link a list of values to print/cut/play with instructions. I liked this!
And then a more casual/less playful list to pick from by reading them on a list.
Then, there is a cool website where you have at least three attempts to arrive at five values—it is fun and no printing is required.
https://www.think2perform.com/values#start
These were my answers on that website- they don't collect your info so it's easy and safe!
I hope you have fun, and I’d love to hear about what were your five most precious values- at least on this day of your life- write the date!- because everything changes, and eventually, they will be slightly different.
Enjoy!
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