Coaching practices for Schedule Aligned to Values
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The things that actually matter to me only ever get the scraps of time left after everyone else’s urgent stuff is handled
- I say family and health are what matter most to me, but if you looked at my actual calendar this week you’d never guess it
- We’ve got nice-sounding values up on the wall and the website, but they do nothing in the room when a real hiring or judgment call is on the table
- I say I value certain things, but when I look honestly at how I actually spent my week, my real priorities were something else entirely
- The long-term work my team needs
Practices that may help
- Values-based scheduling
Block time for purpose-aligned activities before reactive obligations fill the calendar.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day - Audit your time against your values
Compare where your hours actually go to the values you say you hold.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Make core values operational, not decorative
Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Check action against stated values — the alignment review
Once a week, compare your stated values to your actual choices and name the gap honestly.
The Pythagorean Evening Review - Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - The values–behavior gap check
Audit the last week: which of your top values did your actual decisions honor?
Values Card Sort - Committed action: making specific, values-linked behavioral commitments
Translate a value into a specific, observable action you commit to this week.
Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical - 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 - Run an annual values-spending alignment review
Review your spending against your values once a year — values shift, and so should the allocation.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Quadrant 2: schedule it
Important but not urgent — the high-value work that gets crowded out — gets a protected slot.
The Eisenhower Matrix, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Align Money With Values
Write your top five values without looking at your bank statement — then compare the two.
Elicit your actual values before looking at your budget
- Calendar Alignment With Values
Compare where your hours actually go to the values you say you hold.
Audit your time against your values
- How Often To Revisit Values
Re-sort your cards every three to six months — values shift, and the map should too.
The seasonal values revisit
- Schedule Your Values
Compare where your hours actually go to the values you say you hold.
- Weekly Values Check
Review your spending against your values once a year — values shift, and so should the allocation.
Run an annual values-spending alignment review
- Acting On Values
Values-based action in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) means choosing behaviors that are consistent with what matters most to you — your values — rather than behaviors driven by avoidance of pain or approval-seeking. ACT distinguishes values (directions, ongoing) from goals (destinations, finishable); the emphasis is on the quality of action in the present rather than outcome attainment. ACT has robust meta-analytic support; values-based action is identified as a core mechanism.
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