How to Find Your Passion - What are Your Values?

How do you find your passion - part 7

So it's good to be following our natural inclinations and talents. To find those things that we have experience and expertise and skill in. The things that come easily to us and that we find no trouble getting out of bed to do.

But for it to be emotionally and spiritually rewarding it needs to also align with our values. There's little point in doing something just because we can, we need to be doing things because they matter to us. And they will matter because they tie in, in some way, with our deep core values and beliefs.

What are your values?

What are your deeply held beliefs?
What are your morals?
What are your ethics?
What do you rank as a virtue?
What do you stand for?

What is important in life to you?

We're looking here for those deep profound values that you hold.Where you draw the line on principles of right and wrong.

So, for example, if animal welfare is important to you, one of your values might be 'Animals have a right to a safe and pleasant life'. Or maybe honesty is next to godliness for you. So a value might be 'Honesty is essential'.

Or maybe its about something in the world, like say 'Climate change is man made and we all have a responsibility to reduce it'.

How to find your values

What to do now

1. Write down as many values you hold as you can. They will likely be diverse e.g. the honesty and climate change of the example.

2. Write down as many morals you hold, as you can.

3. Write down anything that you hold as a virtue.

4. What things are important in life to you?

Review

Do they group?
Are there common themes?

Good work, this is a hard one, and needs a bit of deep thinking.