Personal Core Values
Your personal Core Values are the fundamental sources of your inspiration, intrinsic motivation, and inner sense of self. They live within your Core and shape how you think, feel, and act across different roles and situations in your life.
What are personal Core Values
Your personal Core Values are the fundamental sources of your inspiration, intrinsic motivation, and inner sense of self. They live within you, and shape how you think, feel, and act long before they are consciously understood.
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Most people don't know their personal Core Values
Many people struggle to find the words to describe what inspires them and shapes their inner identity. Seity Health’s Personal Core Values Assessment can help.
Discover your 4 Core Values from over 37.9 million possible Core Value combinations.
Why does it matter?
When we live by external expectations rather than our own personal Core Values, we can experience tension, disengagement, or a lack of direction.
Discovering our personal Core Values can be a real moment of recognition. We can begin to understand ourselves and why certain choices feel more natural than others.
When we live out our Core Values in healthy ways, our choices feel less like obligations and more like expressions of who we are. This alignment can support greater mental health, wellbeing, engagement, and performance.
As we learn the personal Core Values of the people around us, differences can become easier to understand, and we can work toward shared wins that make room for what each person brings.
When you discover your personal Core Values, it becomes easier to understand what inspires and motivates you and to live that out with intention
These are not the same as the value we are taught
Personal Core Values are not the values taught by families, cultures, or organizations.
Those come from external value systems. Personal Core Values are internal. They reflect the deeper sources of inspiration and intrinsic motivation that shape how you interpret your experiences and make decisions at a fundamental level.
It's not about rejecting other value systems. It's about understanding the internal "why" behind how we think, feel, and act.
Unlock a deeper understanding of what makes each person unique and what brings people together.
How do I discover my Core Values?
You can discover your Core Values with Seity Health’s Personal Core Values Assessment. Developed by physicians and scientifically validated, it takes 5 to 7 minutes to complete and identifies your 4 personal Core Values.
Individual understanding and collective impact are powered by personal Core Values
Alignment and misalignment both have a powerful impact
Core Value-alignment
Core Value-alignment occurs when the choices a person makes and the way they live match their personal Core Values. When alignment is present, people tend to feel more grounded. That can support greater wellbeing, more motivation, and the ability to contribute in ways that feel authentic and meaningful.
Core Value-misalignment
Core Value-misalignment occurs when the choices a person makes and the way they live do not match their personal Core Values. Over time, it can show up as disengagement, reduced motivation, or a sense that something important is missing. Misalignment is common and changeable. It does not mean failure.
The research behind personal Core Values
Seity Health’s methodology is grounded in decades of research on meaning, identity, and behavior change. We turn that research into something people and organizations can use.
Activates reward centers of the brain2
Gives you a future orientation2
Mental wellbeing improves3
Psychological distress decreases4
Self-compassion improves5
Increases positive behaviors towards others6
Less rumination after failing7
Reduces negativity8
Increases creativity at work9
Makes life feel more meaningful10
Higher levels of optimism and happiness11
Lower levels of sadness and anger12
Increased success in reaching goals13
Performance improves at work and school14-16
Seity Health’s methodology is grounded in decades of research on meaning, identity, and behavior change. We turn that research into something people and organizations can use.
Activates reward centers of the brain2
Gives you a future orientation2
Mental wellbeing improves3
Psychological distress decreases4
Self-compassion improves5
Increases positive behaviors towards others6
Less rumination after failing7
Reduces negativity8
Increases creativity at work9
Makes life feel more meaningful10
Higher levels of optimism and happiness11
Lower levels of sadness and anger12
Increased success in reaching goals13
Performance improves at work and school14-16
Bring the power of personal Core Values to your people
Give your people the tools to better understand themselves and each other, strengthen relationships, and build the conditions for greater wellbeing, engagement, and performance.
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