• Core Value One: Connection to Others
  • Spend time with my family, together and individually
  • Help my family out when they need me
  • Maintain healthy boundaries with my family
  • Seek out communities which feel safe and affirming
  • Build my social life around those communities
  • Persevere with things, even though social anxiety is so painful
  • Work on developing better professional relationships
  • Meet local people while travelling, listen to their stories and learn from their ways of life
  • Have a healthy and loving romantic relationship
  • Have 3-5 friends who I can rely on, who I can call when I've had a bad day and who I can try out the local coffee places and bars with

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• Core Value Two: Connection to the Natural World
  • Spend at least 5 hours outside every week
  • Wander off the track
  • Climb trees and rocks
  • Leave as little an impact on the physical world as possible
  • Learn more about the things I see around me
  • Forage for blackberries, wild garlic and maybe mushrooms someday
  • Spend more time doing outdoor activities, especially hiking and SUP
  • Buy only what I need, to eliminate waste
  • Be aware of the environment in my daily life
  • Reuse and repurpose things instead of buying new
  • Dedicate some time and money to travel every year
  • Explore different parts of the UK
  • Experience diverse ecosystems and natural phenomena around the world
  • Climb more mountains (and just hills)
  • Touch down on every continent (not including Antarctica)

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• Core Value Three: Creative Productivity
  • Go to live music events
  • Learn to play Is There Somewhere and Daydreams on piano
  • Pass piano grade 5
  • Read often
  • Try out different creative projects - I don't really know what I want to pursue right now, so it would be good to just try some different things

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• Core Value Four: Freedom of Expression
  • Stay confident in what I believe and comfortable with what I don't know
  • Allow others to experience life however they want to, where their behaviour is not harmful to others
  • Live my own truth, being myself and living by my own values, regardless of what others think
  • Take time for sensory seeking, hyperactivity and daydreaming (when safe and appropriate to do so)
  • Meet myself when I am, rather than holding myself to others' standards
  • Work on expressing my ideas in different settings i.e. socially and professionally
  • Develop confidence in sharing my opinion and engaging in different conversations
  • Worry less about how people might perceive me and my ideas

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• Core Value Five: Freedom to Explore
  • Engage with interesting materials (articles, books, podcasts)
  • Treat every day as a new lesson
  • Learn through the activities I do at work
  • Carry out additional research around areas of construction (although right now by this I literally just mean complete coursework)
  • Use travel as a means of learning about the world
  • Learn more about ancient history and about how things work
  • Become fluent in Cymraeg
  • Try out new recipes often (most weeks)
  • Learn to climb more challenging walls
  • Go to new places, even if they're not that far away
  • Try new things whenever possible
  • Attend classes and conferences
  • Be open-minded about different activities and ideas (especially when considering other peoples' recommendations)

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• Core Value Six: Joy-Seeking
  • Love / enjoy as many things as possible
  • Experience those things as often as possible
  • Engage in comfort activities in order to wind down
  • Rewatch episodes of shit TV shows that make me happy
  • Stand barefoot in the grass
  • Listen to lots of good music
  • Play with cats whenever possible
  • Have fun, life is short

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• Core Value Seven: Pacifism
  • Find courage in peace
  • Be respectful and kind to others
  • Treat all living things as I would like to be treated
  • Distance myself from negative topics and opinions
  • Learn to respectfully disagree with unpleasant opinions instead of becoming angry or upset by them

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• Core Value Eight: Personal Growth
  • Find strategies for becoming more confident in social and professional settings
  • Develop confidence in my ability to be productive and responsible at work
  • Use this to develop my career and in promoting myself
  • Get to know more people who I can feel confident around
  • Put myself out there into more social situations
  • Make an earnest start at dating
  • Actually respond to peoples' messages rather than overthinking about them
  • Get into the habit of texting or emailing people back as soon as possible
  • Learn to manage overthinking about how people will perceive my actions and words
  • Continue working on knowing and understanding myself
  • But don't get so caught up in introspection that I just get lost
  • Use yoga to help clear my mind and allow me to be present in the moment
  • Have better conversations which elicit different perspectives and help me work through different ideas

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• Core Value Nine: Personal Security
  • Keep better track of my incomings and outgoings, preventing the latter from exceeding the former
  • Be able to afford my needs and wants
  • Invest in my future (saving for a house, future partner or family, potential career moves, pension)
  • Increase my earnings
  • Budget for the things I want to have (car, phone), and the things I want to experience (travel, concerts)
  • Cultivate an environment in which I feel safe to be myself
  • Cut out things in life which do not make me feel safe
  • Have a place of my own and enough money to maintain it

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• Core Value Ten: Positive Health
  • Walk a minimum of 6000 steps every day
  • Spend more time doing adventurous activities
  • Extend my workout routine beyond walking and yoga
  • Try running
  • Do yoga at least twice a week
  • Keep myself nourished with healthy food, cooking fresh as much as possible
  • Drink (a lot) more water
  • Keep up with daily tasks and positive self-care habits e.g. washing myself, brushing teeth, skincare, laundry etc.
  • Be aware of what's going on with my body
  • Look after myself, especially when I'm not feeling great e.g. around my period or when I'm super tired
  • Take the pressure off myself when I need to
  • Use the values throughout this list to help me live my most fulfilling life and maintain good mental health
  • Don't be afraid to talk about how I'm feeling in different situations