Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement 3925: Creating and Living by Your Own List of Values by Chris Guillebeau on Purpose Alignment
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Feb 25, 2026 A practical guide to identifying the few core principles that shape how you spend time, money, and energy. Tips for narrowing values to a small, actionable list and turning traits into personal statements. Ways to use values as filters for spending and time decisions. Advice on balancing current behaviors with one or two aspirational values and updating your list as you grow.
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Integrity Means Living Your Own Values
- Integrity equals how closely your life matches your own values.
- Chris Guillebeau defines integrity as doing what you say you do and advises examining your life to find those core values.
Limit Your Core Values To Four To Eight
- Choose four to eight primary values that truly reflect who you are.
- Chris suggests writing down initial ideas, then turning key characteristics into full statements that you actually live by.
Five Values That Shift Western Defaults
- Favor experiences, big goals, meaningful work, flexibility, and travel as values that contrast Western norms.
- Examples: valuing experiences over things; setting dramatic goals like visiting every country; treating travel as a core priority.