Coaching practices for How to Stop Throwing Good Money After Bad

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• I keep doubling down to justify the last round
• I’ve poured so many years and so much money into this that walking away feels like admitting it was all wasted
• I keep grinding away at this because I’ve already poured so much time and money in that walking away feels like admitting it was all wasted
• My portfolio is bleeding red and the urge to just sell it all and stop the pain is almost unbearable
• Every time I try to weigh whether to keep going, the years and money I’ve already poured in flood right back in and drown out the actual question

Practices that may help

1. Actively watch for escalation of commitment
   Each new investment in a losing course makes the next exit harder — catch escalation early.
   The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escaping Bad Investments
2. Separate the sunk cost from the next decision
   What you already spent is gone — decide only on what happens next.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
3. Distinguish sunk costs from future opportunity costs
   What you’ve already spent is irrelevant; what you’ll give up going forward is the only cost that matters.
   Opportunity Cost Thinking: What You Give Up When You Choose
4. The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escaping Bad Investments
   The sunk cost fallacy is the tendency to continue a losing course because of unrecoverable past investment rather than on the basis of future expected value. It is one of the most robustly documented biases in behavioral economics. The corrective is to evaluate forward-only: what will each path deliver from here, regardless of what has already been spent.
5. Use the DCA system to override market fear
   A pre-committed investment system is the primary tool for defeating loss aversion at market bottoms.
   Dollar-Cost Averaging, Made Practical
6. Zero out past investment before evaluating the forward decision
   Explicitly set prior investment to zero and evaluate only what each future path offers from here.
   The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escaping Bad Investments
7. Calculate the ongoing cost of delay
   Every day you continue a bad course is a day you could have started a better one.
   The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escaping Bad Investments
8. Set stop-loss policies before starting projects
   Define exit criteria at the start, when you are not yet sunk.
   The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escaping Bad Investments
9. Roll with the punches
   When a category runs out, move money consciously rather than abandoning the budget.
   YNAB Budgeting, Made Practical
10. Freeze new debt acquisition while the snowball is running
    Stop adding to any debt balance while paying down others — an empty bucket never empties if it has a running tap.
    The Debt Snowball, Made Practical

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