The GFG Guide to Core Values

Why they matter + a list to help you choose yours

In our coaching sessions, I’ll often ask you to identify your core values as one of our first tasks.

Why? Because your values are your internal compass. They guide how fulfilled you feel, how you make decisions, choose relationships, and spend your energy. If you’re not clear on them, it’s easy to drift into situations that drain you or make you feel melancholy, stuck, or confused.

When you know your values, you can ask yourself in any situation:
“Is this aligned with who I am and what I stand for?”

Common Core Values List

Read through this list and notice which ones feel most important to you — the ones you’d want to live by even if no one else agreed.

• Authenticity – Being real, honest, and true to yourself

• Adventure – Seeking new experiences and growth

• Balance – Creating harmony between work, relationships, and self

• Beauty – Appreciating and creating aesthetics in life

• Compassion – Acting with kindness toward yourself and others

• Community – Building connection and belonging

• Confidence – Trusting in your own worth and abilities

• Creativity – Expressing yourself through ideas and art

• Discipline – Staying committed to your goals and habits

• Empowerment – Lifting yourself and others to their potential

• Family – Prioritizing relationships with loved ones

• Freedom – Choosing how you live without unnecessary constraints

• Fun – Making space for joy and playfulness

• Generosity – Giving your time, energy, or resources

• Gratitude – Appreciating the present moment and what you have

• Growth – Learning and evolving as a person

• Health – Caring for your physical and mental well-being

• Honesty – Speaking and acting truthfully

• Independence – Being self-reliant and making your own choices

• Integrity – Aligning actions with morals and principles

• Kindness – Treating others gently and with respect

• Leadership – Guiding and inspiring others

• Learning – Expanding knowledge and skills

• Love – Prioritizing meaningful relationships and connection

• Loyalty – Staying committed to people and promises

• Nature – Connecting with the earth and natural world

• Peace – Creating calm in your mind, relationships, and life

• Resilience – Bouncing back from challenges

• Respect – Valuing yourself and others equally

• Security – Building stability and safety in your life

• Self-Love – Valuing your own worthiness

• Service – Contributing to the well-being of others

• Spirituality – Connecting to something greater than yourself

• Success – Achieving goals and dreams

• Trust – Relying on yourself and others with confidence

• Wealth – Creating financial abundance and opportunity

Your task

From this list, choose your top 3-5 values.

Write them down. Then bring them to our next coaching session. Here, we'll come up with action steps to help you align to your values, and therefore get you back on track with fulfillment.