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lives. It offers some common values and examples of how they appear
in personal and work situations.
With a highest rating of 10, assign a rating of your level of satis-
faction to each value, dividing the score between personal and work.
This exercise will help you to see how well you blend and manage
your values from a whole life perspective. Why divide the score of
10? Sometimes your level of satisfaction is different when looking at
both personal and work life. For example, achievement may be an
important value to you. Let’s say you rated this value a 7 at work but
3 personally. Knowing that you are falling short on personal achieve-
ment outside of your work and profession, you begin to think of per-
sonal milestones to increase your level of satisfaction for that value.
Maybe getting involved with a community outreach board or taking
a course in an area you would like to personally learn and master is
just one example of how to use this tool. See where your values are
in sync with your personal life but not your work life and vice versa.
In places where you’re happy, actively work to protect against devel-
oping an imbalance. Finally, use this exercise to prioritize and focus
on your top five nonnegotiable values.

Table 2-1 Values Chart

Value Personal Definition P W Work Definition
Accomplishment Reaching personal 6 4 Successfully completing projects;
milestones; having a great reputation; having
gaining respect of your work recognized; being
others; having a promoted
good standing in
the community
Affiliation/ Having a close knit Feeling part of a department or division;
Relationships family or circle of having “connected” relationships
friends with coworkers; teamwork; harmony
in the workplace