Existentialism

There was an activity in my theories of counseling text book reading for today that I wanted to put on here. I think you should try it.

Review the following list of values. Place a checkmark by all of the values that are important to you. Then review the values that you have checked and list, in priority order, the three that are most important to you.

Achievement
Beauty
Career success
Child rearing
Creativity
Fame
Friendship
Health and fitness
Helping others
Independence
Learning and knowledge
Love and romance
Nature/outdoors activities
Order
Possessions
Power
Prestige and admiration
Security
Variety
Wealth

When I first went through the list, I checked these:

Achievement
Beauty
Career success
Child rearing
Creativity
Friendship
Health and fitness
Helping others
Independence
Learning and knowledge
Love and romance
Order
Security
Variety

From those I narrowed it down to:

Achievement
Friendship
Independence
Learning and knowledge
Love and romance
Order

I was able to take it down to these few because I see some things as taking care of other things. Ultimately, I view achievement as taking care of most things and as far as this particular list is concerned, I would consider myself as having achieved if I have independence and knowledge. Love and friendship were difficult for me to debate between but ultimately I decided that if I could love someone they were most likely going to be close to me and therefore a friend. Order holds everything up. And so, here is my final list, in 1-2-3 sequence:

Order
Achievement
Love and romance

I would love to know your top three.