Value Based Decision: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Try it here: check a decision against your values
Naming the value each option serves shows which one fits what you care about most.
Name the option you're weighing and the values on each side.
Practices that may help
- Resolving a decision with two competing values
When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
Values Card Sort - Apply the "value per dollar" test to major purchases
Before a large purchase, ask how much wellbeing per dollar this generates relative to alternatives at the same cost.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
The 10-10-10 Rule - Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
Values-based spending is the practice of deliberately allocating money toward what you have identified as genuinely important to you — and cutting spending that does not reflect those priorities. It is not minimalism or frugality; it is a decision framework that uses your stated values as the filter for every financial choice. The evidence base is primarily from financial psychology and hedonic wellbeing research, not clinical trials. - Name the values the regret is about
Regret points at a violated value — make the value explicit.
The Regret-Minimization Framework - Consider the cost of mediocre vs excellent allocation
Ask not just "is this worthwhile?" but "is this the best use of this resource right now?"
Opportunity Cost Thinking: What You Give Up When You Choose - 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 - Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
Expected value thinking multiplies each possible outcome by its probability and sums the results, giving a single number that represents the average payoff of a decision. It is the mathematical foundation of rational decision-making under uncertainty — well grounded in decision theory — but it has real limits: probabilities are often uncertain, outcomes are not always quantifiable, and raw expected value ignores risk aversion that can be legitimate. - Reduce opportunity-cost thinking
Stop calculating what every rejected option "costs" you — it amplifies regret for no gain.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - Design conscious spending categories around your values
Replace generic budget categories with value-named buckets so every allocation is self-evidently justified or not.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m frozen on a decision where honoring one thing I care about means shortchanging another
- I’m about to drop a chunk of money on something I’m sure will make me happy, but I’m only picturing that one purchase
- Under all this pressure to please people and react, I’m about to make a call that I already sense doesn’t square with who I actually want to be
- When I imagine choosing wrong here I get this strong pull of dread, but it’s just a formless ache I can’t reason with
- My life is full of perfectly fine, perfectly worthwhile things
Related concerns
- Value Based Decisions
Values-based spending is the practice of deliberately allocating money toward what you have identified as genuinely important to you — and cutting spending that does not reflect those priorities. It is not minimalism or frugality; it is a decision framework that uses your stated values as the filter for every financial choice. The evidence base is primarily from financial psychology and hedonic wellbeing research, not clinical trials.
- Values And Decision Making
When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
Resolving a decision with two competing values
- Values Based Decision
When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
- Values Based Decision Making
Values-based spending is the practice of deliberately allocating money toward what you have identified as genuinely important to you — and cutting spending that does not reflect those priorities. It is not minimalism or frugality; it is a decision framework that uses your stated values as the filter for every financial choice. The evidence base is primarily from financial psychology and hedonic wellbeing research, not clinical trials.
- How To Make Decisions Aligned With Values
Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
- How To Make Values Based Decisions
When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
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