THE VALUES & NEEDS PROGRAM

1. I like activities like river rafting because you never know what's really around the bend.

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 the longer way, or 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. There is probably art in everything, but only certain things are worth looking at.

2. I tend to make whatever I touch more aesthetically pleasing.

3. Nature is the source of beauty.

4. If it's not beautiful, I probably won't like it.

5. There is nothing more important to me personally than seeing or experiencing the beauty of things, life, etc.

1. After people meet me, see or speak with me, they tend to get "into action" about something.

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 or more productively.

5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being a catalyst or lever for change or movement.

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.

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 personally than contributing or serving people or humanity.

1. The act of inventing or making up new things, ideas, art, form or function is very appealing and energizing to me.

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. I would have really liked to have been a Christopher Columbus type person, discovering something that had not been discovered before.

2. I like finding the wrinkle that has not been discovered before.

3. I love finding out new things about myself and others.

4. Once I've found "it," I go looking for another "it."

5. There is nothing more important to me personally discovering new things or new ways with things.

1. It's important to me to express my feelings, even when it gets in the way of things.

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 feeling and emotions.

1. It's important that someone step forward and take charge.

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. I feel compelled to be the best that I can be.

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. There is nothing more important to me personally than to be master or the master of my trade.

1. A strong and consistent theme throughout my life has been my quest for personal and physical 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 personally in life than experiencing as many forms of pleasure as possible.

1. I get high from being included on other's lives or plans.

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! (More people to love!)

4. The bond between two people is God's greatest gift to us.

5. There is nothing more important to me personally than to be very connected with people.

1. I will shop at a store with higher prices but with clerks who are really nice and helpful.

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 or nice to me on the phone or in person.

4. I am so sensitive that I can't be around people who are upset, needy or loud. I protect my "space."

5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being sensitive and/or nice; or being around those who are.

1. I have a strong relationship with God or the "universal being."

2. I have surrendered my life to God's will for me.

3. I get tremendous pleasure and strength from praying, meditation or being with God.

4. If there wasn't really a God, I would create one for myself.

5. There is nothing more important to me personally than being in constant touch with God.

1. I enjoy passing on information and ideas to the next generation.

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. I tend to justify the means to get to and end I really want.

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.