Coaching practices for Four Domains Act

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

• I pour everything into one part of my life
• I look at all the areas where I’m falling short and try to fix everything at once, and end up moving nothing
• There’s this one heavy thing I keep stepping around
• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• I keep forcing myself to lead the way I think a leader is supposed to, even when it cuts against my grain, and I can’t actually name what I’m naturally good at

Practices that may help

1. Map your values across the four life domains
   Write one core value statement for each domain — work, relationships, personal growth, leisure — before touching the bullseye.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
2. Choose one domain to move toward the bullseye this week
   Pick the domain where a small move would matter most — not the most important one in the abstract.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
3. Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
   Values-based action in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) means choosing behaviors that are consistent with what matters most to you — your values — rather than behaviors driven by avoidance of pain or approval-seeking. ACT distinguishes values (directions, ongoing) from goals (destinations, finishable); the emphasis is on the quality of action in the present rather than outcome attainment. ACT has robust meta-analytic support; values-based action is identified as a core mechanism.
4. Values Bullseye, Made Practical
   The values bullseye, developed by Tobias Lundgren within the ACT framework, is a visual exercise in which you rate how close your current behavior is to the bullseye in four life domains — work, relationships, personal growth, and leisure. It converts abstract values into a concrete gap-analysis, making it easier to choose one committed action that moves you toward the center. The exercise is part of the established ACT toolkit; direct evidence for the instrument is limited but the underlying ACT framework has substantial support.
5. Identify the drag domain — the one pulling everything else down
   One chronically low domain often functions as a ceiling on satisfaction in all the others.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
6. Committed Action, Made Practical
   Committed action — a core ACT process developed by Steven Hayes — means taking concrete, repeated steps toward what you value even while discomfort is present, rather than waiting for the feeling of readiness. It is the behavioral spine of ACT, which has substantial randomized-trial support across anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and other conditions.
7. Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
   Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
8. Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
   Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
9. Turn the chosen domain into a committed action
   Convert the domain insight into a concrete, timed, values-linked behavior — not a vague intention.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
10. The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
    The 4 Disciplines of Execution (McChesney, Covey & Huling) is an organizational strategy framework built around four practices: focus on a wildly important goal, act on lead measures, keep a compelling scoreboard, and create a cadence of accountability. Evidence is primarily organizational case studies and observational data; controlled trials on the framework as a whole are limited, but the individual components (implementation intentions, feedback loops, social accountability) have broader research support.

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