Coaching practices for Authentic Life Audit
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Authentic Life Audit, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I look at the big shape of my life
- On paper my life looks fine and I can’t point to anything that’s wrong, but I have this nagging sense it isn’t actually going well
- There’s a low hum of dissatisfaction in my life I can’t pin down
- I’m living by a whole set of rules about how life should go, and it’s started to dawn on me that I never actually chose most of them
- I’m not sure my stated values are real or just the ones I think I should have
Practices that may help
- Audit whether you are living your life or someone else’s
Identify the places where your choices reflect others’ expectations rather than your own values.
The Regret of the Dying - Periodic eudaimonia audit: are you actually flourishing?
Periodically evaluate your life against the conditions Aristotle thought were necessary for genuine flourishing — not just your feelings about it.
Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue - 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 - Conduct a regular examined-life audit
Periodically ask: which of the beliefs I am living by have I actually examined, and which am I just inheriting?
The Socratic Method, Made Practical - Excavate your actual values from your history
Use past choices and sacrifices — not aspirations — to find what you actually value.
Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy - Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - Use the wheel as a relationship check-in, not just a solo exercise
Sharing your wheel with a partner, coach, or trusted friend turns a self-assessment into a conversation and a commitment.
The Wheel of Life, Made Practical - Know thyself — map your actual values against your actions
Compare what you say you value with what your behavior reveals you actually value.
The Examined Life - Ask for clarity and honest perception
Before reviewing, pause to ask for the capacity to see honestly rather than defensively.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - 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
Related concerns
- Honest Life Assessment
The wheel’s value is proportional to the honesty of your ratings — aspirational scores produce a pleasant picture that changes nothing.
Rate each life domain with brutal honesty, not aspiration
- How To Examine Your Life
Periodically ask: which of the beliefs I am living by have I actually examined, and which am I just inheriting?
Conduct a regular examined-life audit
- Life Balance Assessment
The Wheel of Life is a coaching tool that maps satisfaction across multiple life domains (career, health, relationships, finances, and others) as a visual "wheel" to show where life is well-rounded and where it is flat. It is widely used in coaching but lacks independent clinical trial evidence; its value is as a structured self-awareness and conversation-starter tool rather than a therapeutic intervention.
- Life Balance Audit
Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
- Longitudinal Self Assessment
Sharing your wheel with a partner, coach, or trusted friend turns a self-assessment into a conversation and a commitment.
Use the wheel as a relationship check-in, not just a solo exercise
- Ought Self Audit
People systematically miscalibrate self-monitoring — periodic objective checks correct the drift.
Periodically compare self-ratings with objective data
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