About This Tool

This exercise is to help people identify the life values that are most important to you and weigh these in relation to your current actions.  Included in the pdf is a series of values cards which you can cut out.  These cards each contain words describing values that are important to some people.  

In this activity, you will sort these cards into five different piles depending on how important each one is to you.  The first five cards include these categories: “Most important to me,” “Very Important to Me,” “Important to Me,” “Somewhat Important to Me,” and “Not Important to Me.” 

This instrument is in the public domain and may be copied, adapted, and used without permission.

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Why It Works

The “Personal Values Card Sort” was created by W.R. Miller, one of the founders of Motivational Interviewing, along with his colleagues J. C’de Baca, D.B. Matthews, and P.L. Wilbourne at the University of New Mexico, 2001. Instructions, 2013.

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