Values Clarification Worksheet

This tool helps you identify the life areas that matter most to you, discover your core values within those areas, and build meaningful goals and action steps aligned with who you want to be.

ACT Values Clarification Worksheet — Creative Solutions Behavioral Health, PLLC
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Choose your life areas

In ACT, values work begins by identifying the domains of life that matter most to you — not what should matter, but what genuinely does. Select all areas that feel important to you right now. There are no wrong answers.

Tip: Think about where you most want to grow, improve, or show up differently. Select as many or as few areas as feel right — you can always return and edit.

Add your own life area

Explore your values

For each life area you selected, describe how you ideally want to be in that area — not what you want to achieve, but the qualities and ways of living that matter deeply to you. Values are directions, not destinations.

Guiding questions: How do you want to show up? What qualities do you want to express? What kind of person do you want to be in this area of life?

Build goals and action steps

Goals are concrete, time-bound steps in the direction of your values. Action steps are the specific behaviors you’ll take. Unlike values, goals can be completed — they’re the way your values come alive in daily life.

Remember: Goals and actions should be realistic and specific. “I will call my mom every Sunday” is more useful than “be a better son.” Small, consistent steps compound into meaningful change.

Your values roadmap

Here is everything you’ve identified. Save or print this page to keep as a reference as you move forward. Revisit and update it as your life and priorities evolve.