Lesson 2 - Worksheet

Activity 1: Value Reflection

Deciding What's Most Important in Life

Defining Your Values

Article adapted from www.mindtools.com

When you define your personal values, you discover what's truly important to you. A good way of
starting to do this is to look back on your life – to identify when you felt really good, and really
confident that you were making good choices.

Follow the steps in this article to help you determine your values.
Step 1: Identify the times when you were happiest
Find examples from both school and personal life. This will ensure some balance in your answers.
What were you doing? Were you with other people? Who? What other factors contributed to your
happiness?

Step 2: Identify the times when you were most proud

Use examples from your school and personal life. Why were you proud? Did other people share
your pride? Who? What other factors contributed to your feelings of pride?

Step 3: Identify the times when you were most fulfilled and satisfied
Again, use both school and personal examples. What need or desire was fulfilled? How and why did
the experience give your life meaning? What other factors contributed to your feelings of
fulfilment?

Step 4: Determine your top values, based on your experiences of happiness, pride, and fulfilment.
Why is each experience truly important and memorable? Use the following list of common personal
values to help you get started – and aim for about 10 top values. (As you work through, you may
find that some of these naturally combine. For instance, if you value philanthropy, community, and
generosity, you might say that service to others is one of your top values.) Circle the 10 that you
feel strongly about.

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 Accountability
Accuracy Excellence Perfection
Achievement Excitement Piety
Adventurousness Expertise Positivity
Altruism Exploration Practicality
Ambition Expressiveness Preparedness
Assertiveness Fairness Professionalism
Balance Faith Prudence
Being the best Family-orientedness Quality-orientation
Belonging Fidelity Reliability
Boldness Fitness Resourcefulness
Calmness Fluency Restraint
Carefulness Focus Results-oriented
Challenge Freedom Rigor
Cheerfulness Fun Security
Clear-mindedness Generosity Self-actualization
Commitment Goodness Self-control
Community Grace Selflessness
Compassion Growth Self-reliance
Competitiveness Happiness Sensitivity
Consistency Hard Work Serenity
Contentment Health Service
Continuous Helping Society Shrewdness
Improvement Holiness Simplicity
Contribution Honesty Soundness
Control Honour Speed
Cooperation Humility Spontaneity
Correctness Independence Stability
Courtesy Ingenuity Strategic
Creativity Inner Harmony Strength
Curiosity Inquisitiveness Structure
Decisiveness Insightfulness Success
Democraticness Intelligence Support
Dependability Intellectual Status Teamwork
Determination Intuition Temperance
Devoutness Joy Thankfulness
Diligence Justice Thoroughness
Discipline Leadership Thoughtfulness
Discretion Legacy Timeliness
Diversity Love Tolerance
Dynamism Loyalty Traditionalism
Economy Making a difference Trustworthiness
Effectiveness Mastery Truth-seeking
Efficiency Merit Understanding
Elegance Obedience Uniqueness
Empathy Openness Unity
Enjoyment Order Usefulness
Enthusiasm Originality Vision
Equality Patriotism Vitality

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Step 5: Prioritize your top values
This step is probably the most difficult, because you'll have to look deep inside yourself. It's also the
most important step, because, when making a decision, you'll have to choose between solutions
that may satisfy different values. This is when you must know which value is more important to you.
Write down your top values, not in any particular order.
Look at the first two values and ask yourself, "If I could satisfy only one of these, which would I
choose?" It might help to visualize a situation in which you would have to make that choice. For
example, if you compare the values of service and stability, imagine that you must decide whether
to sell your house and move to another country to do valuable foreign aid work, or keep your house
and volunteer to do charity work closer to home.
Keep working through the list, by comparing each value with each other value, until your list is in
the correct order.
List your top 5 below:

Step 6: Reaffirm your values

Check your top-priority values, and make sure that they fit with your life and your vision for
yourself.
Do these values make you feel good about yourself?
Are you proud of your top three values?
Would you be comfortable and proud to tell your values to people you respect and admire?
Do these values represent things you would support, even if your choice isn't popular, and it puts
you in the minority?
When you consider your values in decision making, you can be sure to keep your sense of integrity
and what you know is right, and approach decisions with confidence and clarity. You'll also know
that what you're doing is best for your current and future happiness and satisfaction.
Making value-based choices may not always be easy. However, making a choice that you know is
right is a lot less difficult in the long run.

Now that you know your values, take another look at the goals you wrote down in
Lesson 1 – Worksheet. How will these values impact your choices?

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 Activity 2:

Rate your relationship with the following people at the moment:

1 - for awesome, 2 - ok, 3 - sometimes trouble and 4 - lots of arguments.

1) FAMILY
2) FRIENDS
3) PARENTS

How does the opinion/ behaviour of others towards you impact your ability to feel happy?

__________________

Give an example of how a relationship with someone has improved your own well-being.

______

Activity 3:
Read the extract below and then answer the questions.

Joshua’s Heart Foundation is dedicated to the fight against global hunger and poverty. JHF is a 501(c) (3),
not-for-profit, youth-run organization, which empowers needy people to improve their quality of life by
providing necessities like groceries and personal items.

Joshua’s Heart Foundation counts more than 60,000 youth and 4,000 adults among the volunteers. 13-year-
old Williams, inspires to stomp out hunger in poor and underprivileged communities, and to help those in
need. Through his work, Williams has been able to engage and empower young people of all ages

Volunteers are an integral part of Joshua’s Heart’s efforts to stomp out hunger and poverty in the United
States and around the world. Our volunteers are both children and adults who work directly with the needy
and in administrative and planning areas.

[Adapted from https://joshuasheart.org/#

Accessed on 20 November 2022]

3.1 Define the term “values” and identify THREE values that the organisation lives (1+3) (4)
to demonstrate??

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 3.2 Discuss TWO ways in which volunteering can affect your relationships or well- (2x2) (4)
being?

3.3 Describe TWO positive influences this article would have on your attitude (2x3) (6)
towards building new relationships while volunteering.

3.4 Suggest TWO strategies teenagers could use if they are not happy with their (2x2) (4)
value system and need to change.

Extra: Discuss the positive effect changing these habits could have on
developing friendships by referring to examples.

Activity 4:

Based on your answers throughout the lesson today, reflect by answering the following questions.

1) Name ONE value you would like to have and how you intend to develop it in your life.

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 ___________ __________________________

2) What positive influence would you like to be in your friendships?

___________ __________________________

3) What advice would you give your younger brother on how to respect your parents as a
teenager?

___________ __________________________

Homework:

Research news articles and bring ONE article of:

“How does Social Media affect relationships?”

You need to read the article and make sure it refers to a case study in the article.

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