Coaching practices for Schedule Your Values
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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
- I’ve got a short list of values but they’re all just sitting there as equals, and the second two of them collide in real life
- The things that actually matter to me only ever get the scraps of time left after everyone else’s urgent stuff is handled
- 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 pour everything into one part of my life
Practices that may help
- Audit your time against your values
Compare where your hours actually go to the values you say you hold.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Rank your top values
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Values-based scheduling
Block time for purpose-aligned activities before reactive obligations fill the calendar.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day - 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. - 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 - 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 - The values–behavior gap check
Audit the last week: which of your top values did your actual decisions honor?
Values Card Sort - 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 - Take value-consistent committed action
Translate each value into one concrete behavior you can do this week.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - 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
Related concerns
- Act Values List
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.
- How To Balance Values
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
Rank your top values
- Stated Vs Enacted Values
Use past choices and sacrifices — not aspirations — to find what you actually value.
Excavate your actual values from your history
- What Are My Core Values
Identify 3–5 core values — not what you should value, but what actually matters when life is stripped back.
Values clarification: what matters most to you?
- When Values Clarification Committed Action
Translate each value into one concrete behavior you can do this week.
Take value-consistent committed action
- 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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