Values are important because they guide our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. If you continuously compromise your values in your decision-making, the impact on you can be quite negative. You need to be able to recognize, understand, and stay true to your values. Understanding your values will also help you to choose a career path that supports and aligns with your values.

Moral Values: What is right or wrong; thoughts or codes by which to live.

Aesthetic Values: Values that reflect your feelings about what has beauty in nature and life. They reveal appreciation for the way things look, sound, feel, taste, and smell.

Material Values: Material values reflect the possessions we own; the things on which we spend our money.

Intrinsic Values: Intrinsic values are things or ideas that have value to us in their own right; the end and not the means.

Extrinsic Values: Some values are important because they help us gain other values or desired results.

Universal Values: Universal values are values on which all or most people agree, such as equality, justice, worldwide brotherhood, respect of self, and others.

Beliefs: Something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion.

**Definitions sourced from: Utah Education Network, Merriam-Webster