Coaching practices for If Someone Asked Me What I Actually Care About I'm Not Sure I Could Answer Honestly I'd Reach for the Things I'm Supposed to Value and I Genuinely Don't Know What Would Be Left If I Stripped Away What I Think I Should Say
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- If someone asked me what I actually care about, I’m not sure I could answer honestly
- If you ask me what I value I’ll say family, health, honesty, growth
- I say I value family, or health, or creativity
- I keep butting heads with someone over what each of us wants, and we’re stuck trading positions back and forth
- I can’t tell which of my values are truly mine and which I just absorbed from my parents or my culture
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Using values questions to deepen a conversation
Ask "what matters most to you about this?" to surface values rather than surface preferences.
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 - Run a values card sort
Sort a deck of value words into keep/maybe/discard to surface what actually matters.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - Clarify values and choose them actively
Name what genuinely matters to you — not what should matter — and make it a live choice today.
Psychological Flexibility, Made Practical - Use the someday list as a values barometer
What you keep adding to the someday list — and what you keep not doing — reveals what you actually value versus what you think you value.
The Someday List - Rank your top values
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
Values Clarification, Made Practical - 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
Related concerns
- How To Choose Your Values
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
Rank your top values
- What Do I Value Most
Write your top 20 candidate values on cards, then sort them ruthlessly until you have a ranked top five.
The forced-rank sort
- What Values Matter Most To Me
Write your top 20 candidate values on cards, then sort them ruthlessly until you have a ranked top five.
- When Values Clarification Rank Your Values
Force a strict order among your finalists so conflicts resolve in advance.
- Define Your Values
Imagine how you’d want to be remembered to reveal the values you’d defend most.
Use the eulogy / future-self lens
- How Can I Find What My Personal Values Are
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?
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