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10
8
6
4
2

Spirituality

Family

Nature

Security

Helping Others

Good Times

Health

Materials

Achievement

Education/Culture

Time Balance

0
Work

How Important / Time Spent

your scores for each value and
divide by the number of days
you tracked.
Now comes the Values by Design
part of your own experiment. Look
at your "Values I.D." assessment
you created for yourself before you
began your daily tracking and com-
pare it with the results of what values
you lived to for one or two weeks.
In general, you'll notice one or two
trends happening with your data:
1) You spent your time living to
your values. Meaning, each day
whatever number you picked
roughly corresponded with which
values you said were least/most
important in your life overall.
2) You didn't spend time living to
your values. Unless it was a unique
week (travel/vacation), you didn't
focus your time on the values you
indicated in your Values ID were
the most important to you.
Note this is not an activity designed
to be condemnatory in any way. You
shouldn't (hopefully) feel judged by
the results of your tracking. The goal
is to help you be introspective about
the difference between what you
say you believe and what you spend
your time doing that may or may not
reflect those beliefs. Then, by identi-
fying the specific areas that are out of
balance, you can either readjust your
"Values ID" and how you think about
what you hold most dear, or adjust
how you spend your time to focus
more directly on what you've identi-
fied is important to you.
While it may seem like common
sense to know that living to your
values can increase your happiness
and wellbeing, it can be hard to do
unless we examine our actions and
reflect on our choices in this way.

Values

Time 1 (Beginning of Day, Assess Importance of Each Value)
Time 2 (End of Day, Relative Time Actually Spent)
Figure 1. Sample individual survey results for the Happathon Project.

as a way to help people identify and
track their beliefs via a methodology
called, Values by Design (VBD).
I based the term after Privacy by
Design, a methodology for assess-
ing and protecting personal data
created by Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.
who at the time was the Informa-
tion & Privacy Commissioner of
Ontario, Canada. I've been an ad-
vocate of personal data and privacy
control for years, not in relation
to one's preferences regarding pri-
vacy (e.g., how much information
you like to share about yourself on
Facebook, etc) but in the vital need
to provide every individual with a
method for controlling and clarifying
how they'd like their data to be shared.
I mention this here because identi-
fying and stating your values to your-
self and your others has to come in
complement to the access to and safe
sharing of your personal data.
But that's a different article.
For now, check out Figure 1.
This shows data from the sur-
vey Peggy and I created from the
fifty people that participated in
the three week experiment we did
focused on the increase in positive

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wellbeing based on the identifica-
tion of one's values.
The twelve words listed on the
bottom of the graph represent twelve
values participants tracked for three
weeks, after first identifying their
"Values by Design" at the beginning
of our experiment.
You can do the same. Here's how:
1) Look at all twelve values listed
here and on a scale of 1-10 ask
yourself, "how important is this
value to my life right now?" Make
a list for all twelve values. This
comprises your "Values I.D." or a
portrait of the specific ways you
view each of these values in your
life in a holistic manner.
2) At the end of the day for a week or
two, look at this list again and ask
yourself, "did I live to these values
today?" Then, for each value, pick
a number between one to ten rep-
resenting how much time you
spent focusing on that value. So,
for instance, if you were outside all
day you might say, "Nature" was a
ten. If you didn't work at all, you
would list that as a "0".
3) At the end of a week (or two if
you can track that long) add up
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