Coaching practices for Death Reflection Exercise

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• I want to look back from the very end of my life and ask honestly what I actually did with my time
• I’ll do this big thorough reflection once, feel great about it, and then not do it again for three weeks
• I reflect on my day and feel all these feelings about it, and then tomorrow plays out exactly the same
• I’m stuck on a real decision and lost in the noise of it, and I want to step back and ask how the version of me at the very end of life would see this
• Whenever I let myself think about dying it doesn’t clarify anything

Practices that may help

1. Write a brief final accounting
   Write as if you’re reporting on your life: what did you do with your time?
   Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters
2. Keep it brief and daily
   Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
3. Close with a resolve for tomorrow
   End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
4. Use mortality salience to clarify what actually matters
   Regularly reflect on finitude — not to produce dread, but to sharpen the signal-to-noise ratio of your choices.
   The Regret of the Dying
5. Practice bounded mortality contemplation
   Set a timer and contemplate mortality for five minutes — then close it deliberately.
   Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters
6. Melete thanatou — meditation on death
   Briefly contemplate your own death today to clarify what actually matters.
   Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises
7. Deliberate mortality reflection
   Briefly contemplate your finite lifespan to surface what actually matters to you.
   Terror Management Theory, Made Practical
8. Build a weekly reflection ritual so the cycle runs regularly
   Schedule a fixed reflection window so the four stages happen as a routine, not an afterthought.
   Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
9. Close with a forward-looking resolve
   Choose one concrete intention to carry into tomorrow before closing the review.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
10. Practice daily self-transcendence
    Each day, do at least one thing whose value is entirely independent of how you felt, performed, or appeared while doing it.
    Logotherapy: Dereflection

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