What Matters to You: How your values are the key to transforming your life and work, perfect for readers of Brene Brown, Julia Baird and Brianna Wi

by Greta Bradman

Whether you want to make better decisions, improve your relationships or find more meaning in your work, harnessing your core values is the key to your future success, contentment and contribution.


Have you ever heard a voice inside you whispering, 'There's got to be more than this'? Or simply felt some kind of disconnect between the life you lead and the life you want?

That's a signal you're living out of alignment with your core values.

In What Matters to You, psychologist Greta Bradman explains how our values impact the way we interpret, evaluate and respond to the world, whether we have insight into them or not. They're more than beacons that inspire; they're drivers that deeply affect us, even when we're out of alignment with them. Your values offer you a roadmap to making sense of what matters most to you. They can anchor and help explain your convictions and beliefs, and motivate actions with long-term benefits. Values also help make sense of the way we prioritise things differently when we feel threatened. In a nutshell, values help us understand our world and express ourselves with authenticity and courage.

By helping us explore our core and threat-based values - why they're important to us, and how to use those core values in both the big and little decisions in day-to-day life - Greta Bradman teaches us to align more of our choices with our values, so we can grow into our own version of a life well lived.

336 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2025

Reviews

[Pyper Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was great. I’ve never thought deeply about values beyond the cliche “they represent what’s important to you”. As someone who sometimes doesn’t feel like they have a direction, this really helped me nail down not only the difference between core values vs threat based values BUT it also helped me understand them as guiding principles. I’ve never thought deeply about my own personal values, so this was a great exercise.

[Natalie Cookson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you for writing this book. It was exactly what I needed to read.

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 star.
I found this book hard to get through at times.
I might be because Im familiar with some of the concepts, but I found it a bit repetitive. I like the chapter summaries.