Coaching practices for Values Compass Check

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Values Compass Check, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I keep telling myself I’m basically living in line with what I care about, but if I’m brutally honest about my actual behavior the last couple of weeks, I suspect I’m way further from the center than I let myself admit
• Working on my values feels like an endless aspiration with no scoreboard
• There’s a low hum of dissatisfaction in my life I can’t pin down
• When I take stock of my life I catch myself rounding everything up
• I assume my spending more or less reflects what I care about, but I’ve never actually tested it

Practices that may help

1. Values Card Sort
   A values card sort is a structured exercise — originally developed in motivational interviewing — that forces you to rank competing values by choosing between them rather than claiming you hold all of them equally. The comparison process surfaces implicit priorities that self-report alone misses. Evidence for values-clarification as a lever for behavior change is observational to clinical; the specific card-sort format has good face validity but limited direct trial data.
2. Rate your current position in each domain
   Mark on each domain’s bullseye how closely your recent behavior has matched the value — honestly.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
3. 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
4. Values Bullseye, Made Practical
   The values bullseye, developed by Tobias Lundgren within the ACT framework, is a visual exercise in which you rate how close your current behavior is to the bullseye in four life domains — work, relationships, personal growth, and leisure. It converts abstract values into a concrete gap-analysis, making it easier to choose one committed action that moves you toward the center. The exercise is part of the established ACT toolkit; direct evidence for the instrument is limited but the underlying ACT framework has substantial support.
5. Valued living audit: how much are you actually living your values?
   Rate both how important each value is and how consistently you have been living it — the gap is where to focus.
   Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
6. Rate each life domain with brutal honesty, not aspiration
   The wheel’s value is proportional to the honesty of your ratings — aspirational scores produce a pleasant picture that changes nothing.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
7. Elicit your actual values before looking at your budget
   Write your top five values without looking at your bank statement — then compare the two.
   Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
8. The values–behavior gap check
   Audit the last week: which of your top values did your actual decisions honor?
   Values Card Sort
9. 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.
10. Ikigai quarterly review
    Every three months, map the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.
    Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day

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