Figuring out my values has been really important to both my personal and professional life. Originally, I used the list provided by Brené Brown in her book Dare to Lead but I found that list to be incomplete (she names this as well). My dear friend Heather Mack and I added close to 100 new options. Below you’ll find the non-exhaustive list that is included as a part of Color Your Needs. If you’d like an easier version to copy and paste, you can find that here.
A
Abundance
Acceptance
Access
Accountability
Achievement
Action
Adaptability
Adventure
Advocacy
Agency
Altruism
Ambiguity
Ambition
Appreciation
Audacity
Authenticity
Awareness
B
Balance
Beauty
Being the Best
Belonging
Boundaries
Bravery
C
Career
Challenge
Change
Chaos
Co-Creation
Collaboration
Collective Liberation
Comfort
Commitment
Community
Compassion
Competence
Competition
Confidence
Congruence
Connection
Consent
Contentment
Contribution
Control
Cooperation
Coutage
Creation
Creativity
Curiosity
D
Daring
Decolonization
Dedication
Diligence
Disobedience
Disruption
Divergence
Diversity
Drive
E
Ease
Efficiency
Emergence
Empathy
Energy
Environment
Equality
Equity
Ethics
Evolution
Excellence
Experimentation
F
Fairness
Faith
Family
Fellowship
Financial Stability
Forgiveness
Freedom
Friendship
Fugitivity
Fun
Future Generations
G
Generosity
Giving Back
Grace
Gratitude
Growth
H
Harmony
Health
Home
Honesty
Hope
Humility
Humor
I
Imagination
Impact
Inclusion
Independence
Individuality
Initiative
Innovation
Insight
Insubordination
Insurgence
Integrity
Intelligence
Intentionality
Interdependence
Intimacy
Intuition
Iterate
J
Job Security
Joy
Justice
Kindness
Kindred
Knowledge
Laughter
Leadership
Learning
Legacy
Leisure
Liberation
Love
Loyalty
M
Magic
Making a difference
Mastery
Meaning Making
Mentoring
Movement
N
Nature
Non-Attachment
Novelty
Nurture
O
Obedience
Openness
Optimism
Order
Organizing
Originality
P
Parenting
Patience
Patriotism
Peace
People
Perseverance
Personal Fulfillment
Play
Power
Practice
Praxis
Price
Privacy
Q
Quality
Queer
R
Radical
Reciprocity
Recognition
Redistribution
Relating
Relationality
Relationship
Relativity
Reliability
Reparations
Resourcefulness
Respect
Responsibility
Revolution
Risk Taking
Ritual
S
Safety
Security
Self-Determination
Self-Discipline
Self-Expression
Self-Love
Self-Reliance
Self-Respect
Sense-Making
Serenity
Service
Service
Simplicity
Solidarity
Sovereignty
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Sportsmanship
Stability
Status
Stewardship
Structure
Subversion
Success
Surrender
Sustainability
T
Teamwork
Thrift
Time
Tradition
Transgression
Transparency
Travel
Troublemaking
Trust
Truth
U
Understanding
Uniqueness
Unity
Unlearning
Usefulness
V
Vision
Vulnerability
W
Wealth
Well-Being
Wholeheartedness
Wisdom
Wonder
