Needs and Values Program

Needs and Values Program (continued)

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PART 2:VALUES EVALUATION


Definitions:

Values are who you are. That is, once your basic needs are met, you tend to want to express your values. If you need something, it is not a value, even though it may appear to be. Once you experience your needs being satisfied and met, you see this distinction more clearly. When you orient your work and life around your "values," you are more fulfilled, motivated and engaged!

On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being ‘more true’ and 5 being ‘less true,’ how would you rate the following:

NOTE: Please provide an answer to all 5 statements in each section. Your total score should end up between 5-25 points for each section.

1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 1   
1. I like activities like river rafting, never knowing what’s really around the bend. Adventure
2. I’d really love to pack up and take a month-long trip to Europe (or any place abroad), and even leave next week!
3. If I had to choose between two ways of getting something done - the exciting, yet unpredictable and possibly longer way, and the most efficient way, I’d tend to take the more exciting way.
4. Sure, I could use a plan or map - but what fun is that, really?
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being a part of an adventure.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 2  
1. There is probably art in everything, but only certain things are worth looking at. Beauty
2. I tend to make whatever I touch more aesthetically pleasing.
3. Nature is the source of beauty.
4. I always notice my beautiful surroundings.
5. There is nothing more important to me than seeing or experiencing the beauty of things, life, etc.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 3   
1. After people meet, see or speak with me, they tend to get “into action”. Catalyst
2. I like being the spark that gets people going again.
3. It turns me on when I see people turned on because of something I’ve said or done.
4. I tend to let people know how they can get the job done more easily and more productively.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being a catalyst or lever for change or movement.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 4   
1. When someone asks me for directions, I usually take them a part of the way or draw a map so I am certain they won’t get lost. Contributions/ Service
2. I tend to put other people’s needs and concerns ahead of or equal to my own.
3. If I couldn’t assist people or make some definite and powerful contribution, I’d begin to question what life was all about.
4. I get upset when I see people not being served or assisted when they easily could be.
5. There is nothing more important to me than contributing or serving people or humanity.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 5   
1. The act of inventing or making up new things, ideas, art, form or function is very appealing and energizing to me. Creativity
2. I like to make things.
3. I get no personal reward from just watching or repeating someone else’s ideas; they have to come from or be measurably customized by me.
4. I don’t get bored; I find something creative to do or get involved with.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than creating something that didn’t really exist before I got involved.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 6   
1. I would really like to have been Christopher Columbus, discovering something that hat not been discovered before. Discovery/ Learning
2. I like finding the wrinkle in just about anything.
3. I love finding out new things about me and others.
4. Once I’ve found ‘’it”, I go looking for another “it."
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than discovering new things or new ways with things.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 7   
1. It’s important to me to express my feelings. Emotions/ Feelings
2. I am grateful that I can really experience the full range of emotions.
3. I am glad that I can cry.
4. I am able to laugh a lot.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than experiencing my feelings and emotions.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 8  
1. It’s important that someone step forward and take charge. Leadership
2. I tend to like to “rally the troops”, to get people moving forward together.
3. I like to be called on to lead a team of people.
4. When I lead, I don’t put up with anything from anybody.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than leading people.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 9   
1. I feel compelled to be the best that I can be. Mastery
2. I tend to be the most able and qualified person I know of in my area or field and I feel good about that.
3. I’d strongly prefer to be a master of a trade than a “jack of all trades."
4. I would be fully willing to be completely ignorant in several important areas if it meant that I could be a master of one.
5. Nothing is more important to me than to be master of my trade.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 10   
1. A strong and consistent theme throughout my life has been my quest of personal and physical pleasure. Pleasure
2. I can never “feel good” enough.
3. Without a lot of pleasure, what’s the use of living.
4. If it feels good, I do it.
5. There is nothing more important to me than experiencing as many forms of pleasure as possible.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 11   
1. I get high from being included in other’s lives or plans. Relatedness
2. If the phone doesn’t ring or I don’t get letters from friends, I tend to wind down or get depressed.
3. We are so lucky that there are 6 billion people on this planet!
4. Being in a committed relationship is most important to me.
5. There is nothing more important to me than to be connected with people.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 12   
1. I will shop at a store with higher prices but with clerks who are nice / helpful. Sensitivity/ Niceness
2. It is better to be polite than to get what you really want in a situation.
3. I am upset when people are not polite / nice to me on the phone or in person.
4. I am sensitive and I can’t be around people who are upset, needy or loud.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being sensitive and/or nice; or being around those who are.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 13   
1. I have a strong relationship with God and spirituality. Spirituality/ God
2. I have surrendered my life to God’s will for me, or another "universal being".
3. I get tremendous pleasure and strength from praying and / or meditating.
4. I belive in God, or have a strong spirituality.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being in constant touch with God, or my own sense of sprituality.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 14   
1. I enjoy passing on information and ideas to the next generation. Teaching
2. When I teach others, I get tremendous satisfaction.
3. It almost doesn’t matter what the subject matter is, I just love to teach.
4. I get pleasure from teaching even to a class of one.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than to teach.
                
1 2 3 4 5 SECTION 15   
1. I tend to justify the means to get to an end I really want. Winning
2. Many people are just born to lose.
3. I compete well, with a group or against myself.
4. I get a tremendous high from pulling something off or winning.
5. There is nothing more important to me personally than winning at something.
                

 

VALUES SUMMARY

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