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SELF WHEEL - DIMENSION 01 OF 16
Identity & Values
Knowing who you are and what you actually stand for.
OVERVIEW
What this dimension looks at.
How clearly you know what matters to you, and how often your daily choices line up with it. Whether your sense of self is your own, or mostly assembled from other people’s expectations.
A reflective example
You take a promotion because it’s the obvious next step, then spend months quietly unsure why you feel flat about something you were supposed to want.
WHY IT MATTERS
When your life runs on borrowed values, everything can look fine and still feel hollow. A clear sense of identity is what lets you make decisions without second-guessing them for weeks afterwards.
WHAT WE HOLD TO
What it looks like, either way.
These aren’t a diagnosis. They’re patterns, described plainly, so you can recognise where you tend to sit.
Signs of Alignment
- Your choices tend to match what you say matters, even when it costs you.
- You can name your core values without reaching for a script.
- You recognise a decision as yours, rather than one you drifted into.
Signs of Misalignment
- You feel vaguely flat about things you were supposed to want.
- Your reasons for big choices sound convincing to others and hollow to you.
- Your life is shaped more by expectation than by intention.
Practical insights
Where the work tends to start.
Name three, not thirty
Write the three values you would defend under pressure. Most misalignment is the gap between those three and last week’s calendar.
Audit one recent decision
Take one choice from the past month and ask whose voice made it. The answer is usually quick, and usually useful.
Go further in the workbook
Each edition turns insights like these into a concrete first move, matched to your lowest-scoring areas.
YOUR RESULT
See where Identity & Values sits for you.
The free assessment gives you an honest overall result. The full assessment scores this dimension, and all fifteen others, individually.