Coaching practices for Fresh Eyes Decision

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

• If I’m honest, I would never sign up for this job (or this routine, this arrangement) if it were put in front of me fresh today
• I walk into the same situation already knowing exactly how it goes, so I stop actually looking
• There’s a tangled decision with too many moving parts to hold in my head all at once, and I feel pushed to just call it now and be done
• I’m too tangled up in this to see it clearly
• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop

Practices that may help

1. Ask: “Would I choose this today if I were starting fresh?”
   Evaluate your current situation as if you were encountering it for the first time, without sunk costs.
   Status Quo Bias — Why We Stick with the Default
2. Fresh-eyes inquiry: "What if I knew nothing about this?"
   Before engaging a familiar situation, ask what you would notice if you were seeing it for the first time.
   Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical
3. Sleep on important decisions
   For complex decisions, delay commitment overnight — sleep processing integrates information deliberate thought misses.
   The Three Bs of Creativity: Bed, Bath, and Bus
4. Apply the new investor test
   Ask: would a rational person who had not already invested choose to invest now?
   The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escaping Bad Investments
5. Run a weekly decision review session
   Set aside 20 minutes each week to score past decisions and extract one lesson.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
6. Commit and stop re-evaluating
   Once you’ve chosen, close the door instead of reopening the comparison.
   Satisficing vs. Maximizing: When “Good Enough” Wins
7. Ensure the first commitment feels freely chosen
   The self-perception update only fires when the person believes they chose to comply.
   The Foot-in-the-Door Technique, Made Practical
8. Project to age 80 and look back
   Ask which choice your 80-year-old self will least regret.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
9. Apply all three horizons explicitly
   Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
10. Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
    Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
    The 10-10-10 Rule

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