The Beauty family brings together 4 core values: Beauty, Elegance, Quality and Style. They share a theme, aesthetics, quality and style, and each puts the weight somewhere slightly different. If two or three of them feel true of you, this theme probably matters a lot in how you choose your work and spend your time.
The values in Beauty
Beauty
Beauty as a core value means noticing, seeking out and creating things that move you through their form, colour or harmony, and treating that as a real need in your life.
Elegance
Elegance as a core value means looking for the simplest, most graceful way to do something, in work, design or behaviour, with nothing unnecessary added.
Quality
Quality as a core value means caring that things are made well and built to last, and being willing to pay more, wait longer or work harder to get them.
Style
Style as a core value means doing things in a distinctive, considered way, bringing personality and intention to how you dress, write, host, lead or shape the space around you.
About the author
Matt Rutherford is a Career and Leadership Coach. The Values Finder is the same exercise he uses with his coaching clients. He also writes Stuff that MattRs, a weekly newsletter with practical ideas to help you think clearer and work better.
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