My personal values influence the decisions I make about my life and work. Although values and principles should remain relatively constant, they may change over time. So, it is important that I review this list often to keep in touch with what is important to me and make any appropriate changes.

I've listed my top ten (10) personal values below and will write posts for my top five (5).  

1. Me so I can take of Heidi and me
2. Us so we are secure (financial, )
   
3. Heidi: Her happiness and well being
4. LWPS
5. Laura
6. MI EP
7. MICA
8. MI DI
9. Laura
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17. Family
    
18. Help Others: Help, teach or coach others directly, either individually or in small groups.
19. Help Society: Help improve conditions in our society and/or the world.
20. Independence/Control/Freedom: Have the freedom to choose the kind of work I'll do and how I'll do it.
21. Balance: Balance family and work.
22. Entrepreneur: Build a new business..
23. Learning/Growth Potential: Opportunity to expand knowledge, abilities and skills.
24. Stability: Have reasonably predictable job duties that are stable over a long period of time..
25. Work Alone: Do things by myself, without much contact with others.
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Below are the lists of personal values that I have found on the Internet and in books over the past 20 years. Add a comment with any that I have missed.

1. Accomplishment/Results: Have a sense of accomplishment or impact.
2. Aesthetics: Have a job that involves sensitivity to beauty.
3. Affiliation: Belong to an organization which shares my values.
4. Artistic Creativity: Do creative work in any of several art forms.
5. Balance: Balance family and work.
6. Challenge: Having sufficient responsibilities and challenges.
7. Change and Variety: Have a job where the duties or settings change often, or there is enough newness and breadth.
8. Community: Be active in community affairs.
9. Creativity (general): Be able to demonstrate creativity and originality.
10. Entrepreneur: Build a new business.
11. Excitement: Do work that is (often) very exciting.
12. Flexibility: Flexibility in location, work, and hours.
13. Help Others: Help, teach or coach others directly, either individually or in small groups.
14. Help Society: Help improve conditions in our society and/or the world.
15. High-tech: Be able to work with state-of-the-art equipment.
16. Independence/Control/Freedom: Have the freedom to choose the kind of work I'll do and how I'll do it.
17. Influence People: Be in a position to change people's attitudes and opinions.
18. Intellectual Status: Be regarded by others as an expert or a person of intellectual achievement.
19. Learning/Growth Potential: Opportunity to expand knowledge, abilities and skills.
20. Make Decisions: Have the power to set policy and determine a course of action.
21. Meaningfulness: Feeling that my job is important - has value and worth.
22. Peer Relationships: Have cordial and cooperative relations with work group/team.
23. Physical Challenge: Have a physically demanding job.
24. Power and Authority: Be able to control other people's work activities.
25. Pressure/Stress: Contains right amount of work and pressure.
26. Profit, Gain: Be able to earn large amounts of money or obtain other material possessions.
27. Quality Work: Do work that allows little tolerance for error.
28. Recognition: Be recognized for my work in some visible or public way.
29. Risk Taking: Do work that requires me to take risks.
30. Security: Have good benefits and reasonable job security and retirement benefits.
31. Skills Usage: Opportunity to utilize and demonstrate my skills.
32. Stability: Have reasonably predictable job duties that are stable over a long period of time.
33. Support: Have adequate help and support.
34. Visibility/Professional Contact: Opportunity for exposure.
35. Work Alone: Do things by myself, without much contact with others.

I found the following from other sites adn need to integrate them into the above list.

• Health and Fitness: Making an effort to be in good physical and mental shape
• Social responsibility: Working for the welfare of society
• Open-mindedness: Being broad-minded
• Enjoying life: Doing things because I like them
• Social tolerance: Respecting ethnic, religious, and racial differences
• Enduring love: Enjoying a deep emotional and spiritual intimacy
• Traditional gender roles: Following traditional roles for men and women
• Career: Establishing a successful working career
• Technology: Keeping abreast with new technological advances
• Travel: experiencing new places and cultures
• Preserving the environment: Helping to preserve nature
• Tradition: Preserving time-honoured customs
• Being youthful: Feeling young
• Excitement: Having stimulating experiences
• Learning: Continuing to learn throughout my life
• Status: Achieving a higher social status
• Creativity: Being creative, imaginative
• Faith: Holding to religious faith and belief
• Respecting ancestors: Showing respect for those that came before us
• Internationalism: Wanting to keep up to date with international news and events
• Wealth: Having material possessions, a lot of money
• Romance: Having romance in my life
• Wisdom: Having a profound understanding of life
• Equality: Desiring equal opportunity for all
• A varied life: Pursuing a life filled with challenge, novelty and change
• Having fun: Having a good time
• Friendship: Having close, supportive friends
• Power: Having control over people and resources
• Ambition: Aspiring to get ahead
• Helpfulness: Making the effort to assist others
• Stable personal relationships: Maintaining a long term commitment to friends and loved ones

1. Ability Utilization:  Workers on this job make use of their individual abilities.
   
2. Achievement: Workers on this job get a feeling of accomplishment. 
   
3. Activity: Workers on this job are busy all the time.
   
4. Independence: Workers on this job do their work alone
   
5. Variety: Workers on this job have something different to do every day.   
   
6. Compensation: Workers on this job are paid well in comparison with other workers.
   
7. Security: Workers on this job have steady employment.
   
8. Working Conditions: Workers on this job have good working conditions.
   
9. Advancement:  Workers on this job have opportunities for advancement.
   
10. Recognition: Workers on this job receive recognition for the work they do.
    
11. Authority: Workers on this job give directions and instructions to others. 
    
12. Social Status: Workers on this job are looked up to by others in their company and their community.
    
13. Co-workers:   Workers on this job have co-workers who are easy to get along with.
    
14. Social Service:  Workers on this job have work where they do things for other people.
    
15. Moral Values: Workers on this job are never pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.  
    
16. Company Policies and Practices: Workers on this job are treated fairly by the company.
    
17. Supervision, Human Relations: Workers on this job have supervisors who back up their workers with management.
    
18. Supervision, Technical: Workers on this job have supervisors who train their workers well.   
    
19. Creativity: Workers on this job try out their own ideas.     
    
20. Responsibility: Workers on this job make decisions on their own.   
    
21. Autonomy: Workers on this job plan their work with little supervision

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