Values Declaration Table
In an unconspicuous booklet, with a misleading title, I found highly inspirating paragraphs about WORKLOVE. The title of the book was MONEY LOVE, suggesting that it belonged to the many books that promise you to become a millionaire overnight. But, very soon, the writer makes clear that there is little difference between work and play for those who love their work, do that work well and enjoy the doing. Those are the rich people. Often, yes, also moneywise. The chapter WORKLOVE, therefore, is the largest chapter of the booklet. From that chapter I selected some paragraphs and a Values Declaration Table I have used very often for myself and in my workshops on Entrepreneurship and Small Scale Marketing. I also bought a few dozen of the booklet to give to friends. I'm afraid it is no longer for sale. Anyway, here is its identification:
Jerry Gillies, Money-Love, New York 1978, Warner Books, Inc, ISBN 0-446-34258-0. Reissued: October 1981. Earlier publication rights: M. Evans and Company, Inc, 216 East 49th Street, New York, N.Y> 10017.

VALUES
(abstracted from the preceding text)

Values are those qualities you consider worthwhile and important.
But a good many of your values are imposed upon you by society and parents and other important people in your life. Her again, the first humanistic psychologist, Dr Abraham Maslow, made some important discoveries in his research into those superior people he called "Self-actualized". He found that their values are based on what is real for them, rather than what they've been told by the outside world.

VALUES CLARIFICATION
(abstracted from the preceding text)

Values clarification is an entire science of human behavior. It's just what it says, a set of strategies to help you clarify your values an choose more appropiate ones if you so decide.

Dr Sydney Simon, Professor of Humanistic Education at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of Values Declaration. In his workshops he used the following table to facilitate the awareness of one's own values in relation to work.


(Full text from here)
This is a way of looking at what you hope to get out of your work. These are the rewards you hope to get from working, what you actually want from your job or career or profession. The idea is to rate each category in order of importance to you. First the chart, then some explanations.

WHAT I WANT FROM WORK
MONEY STIMULATION
/EXCITEMENT		 LOVE & AFFECTION LEAVE A
THUMBPRINT
ON THE WORLD
 Survival & Luxuries  Challenge  Colleagues  Change Individuals
 To Give Others  Cutting edge of Newness  Boss or Bosses  Change Systems & Institutions
 Freedom of Choice  Variety  Clients & Customers  Create Product with Long Shelf Life
 Security & Protection  Be Part of Team Solving Real Problems  Family & Friends  Affect Family & Friends

USING THE VALUES CLARIFICATION CHART

The purpose of this chart is to help you discover exactly what you want from your work. You are ratint these wants in order of importance from 1 to 4 with 1 being the highest rating an 4 the lowest. To start with, you'll be looking at how it is right now. What satisfactions are you looking for in the work you are doing now? First, rate the four major categories in order of importance. Each one gets a number from 1 to 4. You ar thus asking yourself:

  • Am I working mainly for financial gain?
  • Am I working for the stimulation and excitement my work provides?
  • Am I working for love and affection
  • Am I working to accomplish something important, to leave a thumbprint on the world as I know it?
Most of us have aspects of all four in what we do. Rate them for yourself.

Next, take the first category, MONEY, and rate, in order of importance:

  • Survival & Luxuries (Food, shelter, stereo, vacations)
  • To Give Others (College for children, support family, donations)
  • Freedom of Choice (So you don't "have" to do what you don't want)
  • Security & Protection (For your old age, medical emergencies, savings.)
The item you think is your strongest motivation for wanting money is ranked 1.

The next column is STIMULATION / EXCITEMENT. Many prosperity-conscious people cite this as one of their major motivations for work. Rate the categories:

  • CHALLENGE (Sid Simon describes this as enjoying getting in over your heaD with the feeling that you'll make it out.)
  • CUTTING EDGE OF NEWNESS (Being really alive gives a sense of newness to all work)
  • VARIETY (Lots of different things to do, a many faceted career.)
  • BE PART OF A TEAM SOLVING REAL PROBLEMS (This can generate exciting group energy.)
Again, the four subheads for Stimulation / Excitement are to be ranked in the order in which they are important to you in your current work.

The next column, LOVE & AFFECTION, covers an area largely ingnored by people talking about and exploring their reasons for choosing a certain profession. But it's a vital area. This one in ranked from 1 to 4 on the basis of who you are most trying to please in your work, other than yourself, of course. Do you most want the love and affection of:

  • COLLEAGUES (The people you work with)
  • BOSS OR BOSSES (Where the money and the promotion come from)
  • CLIENTS AND CUSTOMERS (Would include students if you're a teacher, patients if you're a therapist or physician)
  • FAMILY & FRIENDS (Are you working for the love you get when you get home?)

I really like Sid Simon's phrase for the next category: LEAVE A THUMBPRINT ON THE WORLD. It's the kind of creative imagination someone with a true prosperity consciousness exhibits, and an apt description of the impact his Values Clarification work has had on education an psychcology. Is this what you're working for: Impact? And where is it most important for you to have that impact?

  • CHANGE INDIVIDUALS (Teachers are often motivated most by this one, the heady knowledge that you've moved someone in a new direction)
  • CHANGE SYSTEMS & INSTITUTIONS (This is often the province of the idealist, and can be one of the most frustrating motivations)
  • CREATE PRODUCT WITH LONG SHELF LIFE (This can be any kind of a product from a book to a new medicine to a new way of doing something.)
  • AFFECT FAMILY & FRIENDS (Of course, the occupation most strongly motivated by this one may be homemaker.)

If you look closely, you may find you are motivated a bit by each of these sixteen factors, plus the four main categories. To take this effective tool a step further, go through it again, --the main categories-- with all the subheads ranked from 1 to 4, but this time the way you would like it to be, the way you want it when you achieve your fondest dreams.

The first time was what you want from what you are doing now; this second run-through is for the work you would like to be doing a few years from now.