Coaching practices for Changing Values Over Time
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- A lot has changed for me lately
- I’m still funneling money toward priorities I set years ago, and my life has moved on since then
- Whenever I try to change something I frame it as forever
- I’ll grind on the same not-quite-working approach for months before adjusting anything, then change five things at once
- Working on my values feels like an endless aspiration with no scoreboard
Practices that may help
- The seasonal values revisit
Re-sort your cards every three to six months — values shift, and the map should too.
Values Card Sort - Run an annual values-spending alignment review
Review your spending against your values once a year — values shift, and so should the allocation.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - The time-boxed trial
Run every new behavior as an explicit test with a fixed end date.
Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It - Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints
Cycle through short tests quickly to compress your learning rate.
Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It - 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 - Exploit micro-transitions within your day as mini fresh-start moments
Use daily transition points — arriving home, finishing a meeting, taking a break — to deliberately shift behavior rather than defaulting to the old pattern.
The Habit Discontinuity Effect - Plan in seasons, not permanent allocations
Think of burner settings as seasonal, not fixed — recalibrate at defined intervals.
Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs - Act on exactly one change before cycling again
Carry one specific modification into the next cycle — not a wholesale overhaul.
Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement - Understanding trait change — what shifts and what does not
Big Five traits are relatively stable in rank order but do change in absolute level — especially with deliberate practice and major life transitions.
The Big Five Personality Model - Calibrate the time horizons to the actual decision
10-10-10 is a template — adjust the horizons to the real timescale of the choice.
The 10-10-10 Rule
Related concerns
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When your social group changes, use the transition to adopt the behavioral norms of the new group rather than carrying old ones.
Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior
- How Often To Revisit Values
Re-sort your cards every three to six months — values shift, and the map should too.
The seasonal values revisit
- Partitioning Behavior Change
Dividing a resource into smaller units reduces how much of it you consume at once.
Use partitioning to limit overuse of resources
- Personal Change Experiments
Test one specific context change rather than your willpower.
Design the experiment as an environmental probe
- Rapid Iteration Behavior Change
Cycle through short tests quickly to compress your learning rate.
Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints
- Single Variable Change
Carry one specific modification into the next cycle — not a wholesale overhaul.
Act on exactly one change before cycling again
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