How to Find Your Work Values: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- 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. - 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 - Map your values across the four life domains
Write one core value statement for each domain — work, relationships, personal growth, leisure — before touching the bullseye.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Values clarification through lived evidence
Infer your actual values from your past behaviour, not from what you wish you valued.
Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice - Review the bullseye weekly to track real movement
Re-mark each domain every week and compare — small outward or inward shifts are your feedback loop.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - The forced-rank sort
Write your top 20 candidate values on cards, then sort them ruthlessly until you have a ranked top five.
Values Card Sort - Use the eulogy / future-self lens
Imagine how you’d want to be remembered to reveal the values you’d defend most.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Audit your time against your values
Compare where your hours actually go to the values you say you hold.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Find meaning through what you create or contribute
Locate meaning in the work or deed you give to the world, not only in what you get from it.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Made Practical - Write your Workview and Lifeview
Articulate what work is for and what life is for — then check whether they point the same way.
Designing Your Life, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- If someone asked me what I actually care about, I’m not sure I could answer honestly
- I pour everything into one part of my life
- I say I value family, or health, or creativity
- Working on my values feels like an endless aspiration with no scoreboard
- If you ask me what I value I’ll say family, health, honesty, growth
Related concerns
- How To Work Out 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.
- Core Values Excavation
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
Make core values operational, not decorative
- Core Values For Work
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
- Defining Your Values 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.
- Finding My Values
Infer your actual values from your past behaviour, not from what you wish you valued.
Values clarification through lived evidence
- Finding 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.
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