The core values that you’ve held for most of your life are probably forming a key part of your identity.

This is partly because they’ve been influencing how you see the world in general. And partly, because they’ve probably been influencing your choices on who to spend your time with.

The problem is people being hated when they are real and being loved when they are fake

Bob Marley

In addition to this, the “rules” that you’ve effectively been forming for yourself (based on these values) have probably been having a big effect on how happy you feel.

Usually, the more compatible that your lifestyle is (with your values), the less conflict that you’ll be likely to feel.

Whereas the less compatible that your lifestyle is, the more conflicted that you are likely to feel, and the more “negative energy” you’ll be likely to experience.

Therefore, this section will now start by helping you to identify each of your key values.

It’ll then move on to help you understand all of your relevant feelings about each one.

It’ll then help you to assess how much each value may be affecting your lifestyle, plus whether or not you should consider a more flexible mindset.

Towards the end, it’ll then help you to start considering other people’s values too.

Then, it’ll provide some guidance on how to prevent or manage any potential conflicts.

To get started, it may help to quickly take the online test at www.politicalcompass.org before then reading your report there.

Because these results can often be a great starting point for identifying some of your core values, ahead of then considering them in further detail.