Coaching practices for How to Clarify What Matters Most
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- I keep butting heads with someone over what each of us wants, and we’re stuck trading positions back and forth
- Going through that, I saw so clearly what actually matters to me
- Whenever I try to narrow down what matters most I can’t bring myself to actually cut anything
- If someone asked me what I actually care about, I’m not sure I could answer honestly
- My team keeps fighting over what to do first and it always gets personal, but underneath it I think we just quietly mean different things by "important"
Practices that may help
- Using values questions to deepen a conversation
Ask "what matters most to you about this?" to surface values rather than surface preferences.
Values Card Sort - Values Clarification, Made Practical
Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research. - Let adversity reorder your priorities
Use the clarity that hardship brings to permanently re-rank what actually matters to you.
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity - Circle your top 5 without negotiating
From 25, choose exactly 5 — the ones you’d feel worst about not doing.
Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy - Values clarification: what matters most to you?
Identify 3–5 core values — not what you should value, but what actually matters when life is stripped back.
Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical - Define "important" explicitly as a team
Before sorting tasks, align on what "important" means — which goals, for whom, over what time horizon.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Values clarification
Name the directions you want your life to move in, distinct from goals you can check off.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - Clarify values and choose them actively
Name what genuinely matters to you — not what should matter — and make it a live choice today.
Psychological Flexibility, Made Practical - Choose one domain to move toward the bullseye this week
Pick the domain where a small move would matter most — not the most important one in the abstract.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Set one organization-wide priority per quarter
Identify the single most important thing the company must accomplish this quarter, and make it everyone’s top priority.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus
Related concerns
- Clarifying Values
Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research.
- How To Clarify Your Values
Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research.
- How To Discover Your Values At 50
Imagine how you’d want to be remembered to reveal the values you’d defend most.
Use the eulogy / future-self lens
- How To Find Your Personal Values Goals And Beliefs How Do You Know If They Are Right For You
Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research.
- Values Clarification Exercise
Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research.
- Values Clarification Goals
Values clarification is the work of naming what matters most to you, sorting the genuine priorities from the inherited ones, and using them to guide real choices. The methods — card sorts, ranking, value-consistent action — draw heavily on values work in acceptance-and-commitment therapy (ACT), which has clinical support; living in line with your values correlates with wellbeing in observational research.
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