Your Primary Orientation
Terminal Values
Tool 2 of 3 — Terminal Values
What do you want your
Ways of Living
Terminal Values
Instrumental Values
What do you want your
life to produce?
Terminal values are the end goals — the outcomes you actually want your life to generate. Not the habits or qualities you want to have, but the things you want to be true when it's all done.
Psychologist Milton Rokeach spent decades researching how people prioritise 18 fundamental life goals. Most of us hold several at once. The question is which ones are actually driving us — and which ones we only think we care about.
Go through each one honestly. Not what sounds noble. What actually pulls at you.
How much does this resonate as a goal for your life?
Your Results
Values that resonated most
Something to sit with
This is the second of three value frameworks. The third — Instrumental Values — looks at the personal qualities you most want to embody in pursuit of these goals. Explore the full course →