Coaching practices for Character Inventory

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

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

• I keep wishing I were a more patient, more generous person, like it’s a trait I’m just missing
• I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
• I read all these brilliant thinking tools and nod along, and then the moment I’m actually facing a hard problem not one of them comes to mind
• I have abstract ideas about the kind of person I want to be, but in a hard moment I freeze because I don’t actually know what that looks like in practice
• I treat each choice as its own isolated thing

Practices that may help

1. Building character through deliberate repetition
   Choose one character quality you want to embody and perform one specific act of it daily until it no longer requires effort.
   Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue
2. Map your safety-behavior inventory
   List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
3. Maintain a personal model catalog with examples
   Keep a written inventory of your models, each illustrated with a real example from your own experience.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
4. Choose and study role models deliberately
   Select a specific person whose character in a specific domain you want to internalize, and study how they act — not just what they say.
   Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
5. View your life as a narrative, not a sequence of choices
   Ask: what story am I living, and does it reflect the character I am trying to build?
   Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
6. Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
   Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
7. Task 3: Adjust to a world without the person
   Actively develop new skills, roles, and identity elements to navigate the changed life.
   Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical
8. Take an initial inventory of your parts
   Name the recurring inner voices, emotions, and reactions — one per part — without judgment.
   IFS Parts Mapping, Made Practical
9. Default to attributional charity for others’ behavior
   When someone acts in a way that seems wrong, first generate a situational explanation before a dispositional one.
   Naive Realism: Why Everyone Thinks They See Things as They Are
10. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
    Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical

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