What Are Your Motivated Values?
What are Work Values?
 Work values are important to YOU and make you productive or ineffective. They describe the
work situation that suits your unique and individual work style.
 They include things like the working pace, job stability, flexibility, pay, travel, talking or being
alone, competitive or collaborative, being detail oriented or a generalist, etc.
 They are what you need to be productive, move ahead, or get fired!
What are Life Values?
 Life values are important in the long run. What would you like people to say about you at your
funeral when you are 100? What would you like to be remembered for?
 These values typically include your relationships, how you spent your time, the big issues you
fought for or supported throughout your life. They can include hobbies, avocations, and interests.
They are important to your purpose in life.
Don’t get hung up on the difference!
 Don’t worry too much about the difference between work vs. life values. Just put a check by each
value that is very important to you. You will narrow it down in a minute.
Work Values
Life Values
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Adventure/excitement
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Humor
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Communicating
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Community
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Competitive
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Compassion
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Diversity
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Courageous
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Entrepreneur
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Love
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Express creativity
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Children
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Face Challenges
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Caring
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Fast-paced environment
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Faith
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Financial success
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Truth
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Have recognition
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Pleasure
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Helping Others/Society
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Environment
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High public contact
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Honesty
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Job Stability
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Fun
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Leading others
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Equality
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Leisure time
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Friendship
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Live abroad
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Religion
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Live in a city
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Spirituality
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Live in a suburb or country
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Spontaneity
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More education
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Justice
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Obtain intellectual status
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Patience
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Own a house
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Trust
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Physical challenge
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Social Justice
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Precision work
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Family
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Regular work hours
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Fitness
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Set your own hours/flexible
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Freedom
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Task variety
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Health
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Teamwork
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Inner Harmony
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Travel often
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Integrity
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population:
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Wisdom
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Write your own:
(young, elderly, homeless, etc.)
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Write your own:
On the next page, you will narrow these down to identify your critical motivated
values…
Motivated Values Matrix
Work Values
Complete the Values Checklist activity. Narrow down your choices to no more than 5 values in each category.
Always Valued
Often Valued
Sometimes Valued
Seldom Valued
Never Valued
Life Values
Complete the Values Checklist activity. Narrow down your choices to no more than 5 values in each category.
Always Valued
Often Valued
Sometimes Valued
Seldom Valued
Never Valued
Results:
 You probably noticed how hard it is to select only five top values. Keeping the list to only five
values that are “Always Valued” forces you to focus.
 These values represent your “sweet spot” – the values that you need to meet if you are to have a
meaningful life.
What’s the point?
 When you think about a career or even a current job, you can look for careers and jobs that
incorporate your motivated Work Values. Also, you need to spend time on your Life Values.
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When you do the things you value, you will succeed. When you are forced to neglect your
motivated values you are probably mis-matched and need to keep looking for a better fit.