Values exercise

List the top four for each question:

1. What do you spend most of your time and energy on? In your natural habitat when nobody is watching and in your day-to-day life?

2. What do you spend most of your money on? What are you currently budgeting for? When you think of wanting money, what do you honestly and authentically want to get with it?

3. When you’re out in the hills, what do you chronically over-pack if anything?

4. What is most organized in your life? From your calendar, your environment, your bank account, your social life.

5. How are you most reliable in your life? To what? To whom? When?

6. What do you spend most of your time thinking about? What fills most of your thoughts? What do your racing thoughts go back to most?

7. What do you visualize most when you’re dreaming about the future? What subjects? Objects? Things? People? Experiences?

8. In social settings, what do you find yourself talking about most? What do you wish you could say if you were talking about the subjects that interest you the most? What topics do you find yourself lighting up about when they come up?

Now, look at the four elements that came up the most. What is the core essence beneath them? For example, mine are: Connection (to self, others, nature, world at large, Universe/God/Spirit/Source), Freedom (with time, activity, movement, place, finances), Experiences/Adventure, Curiosity.

Some example words to get the ideas flowing: Security, Luxury, Authenticity, Togetherness, Passion, Nature, Wellness, Quality, Growth, Honesty, Wholehearted, Ease, Abundance, Recognition, Respect, Wonder, Independence, Beauty, Flexibility, Freedom, Connection, Curiosity, Expansion, Spirituality, Movement, Creativity, Being Seen, Home, Travel, Humor, Impact, Sage/Teacher, Legacy, Aesthetics, Space, etc.

Adapted from To Be Magnetic and Magnetic North