It is important to carefully consider your values for several reasons:

(1) they could guide your life minute by minute towards noble goals, rather than your life being controlled by self-serving motives, customs, accidental occurrences, bad habits, impulses, or emotions. You have to know where you are going before you can get there.

(2) Values and morals can not only guide but inspire and motivate you, giving you energy and a zest for living and for doing something meaningful.