Role Models

Making sense of your values is an ongoing journey that benefits from approaching your reflection with different tools and lenses.

The ACT Card Deck is a valuable tool with prompts designed with questions and challenges to encourage meaningful action and provide new perspectives. Some of these are helpful for understanding our values. One particularly insightful prompt encourages reflection on role models.

It reads, “Think of someone you admire or respect. What qualities do they live that matter to you? What is one quality that you can practice today? How?”

I like that this takes a side road into considering what matters to you. Sometimes, we admire someone but haven’t sought clarity on why that is. Breaking down what it is about someone that makes this person a role model to you can provide insight into your values and help you consider how you may want to reflect that in your self and life.

I also appreciate the second part of the card that asks you to identify one quality you can practice today and how. This step is a tangible, easy prompt to help you generate a real action toward value-based living.

There are many avenues for understanding and exploring your values beyond just identifying them. By recognizing the qualities you admire in others, you can intentionally practice them in a way that makes sense to you, furthering your alignment to a life that truly matters to you.