Coaching practices for June Price Tangney Research

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

• A price in dollars is just an abstract number I judge by "can I afford it"
• The name is right there on the tip of my tongue, I can almost taste it
• I have to put a price on what I’m offering and the number sounds huge said out loud on its own
• I’m tempted to pay a real chunk of money for the official course, but I can’t tell whether I’m buying something genuinely unique or just structure and a teacher I could get for free
• I keep gathering more and more data without ever deciding what would settle the question, so the research just sprawls on forever and I’m collecting whatever turns up instead of hunting for the specific thing that would prove or kill each possible explanation.

Practices that may help

1. Translate price into hours of work or future value
   Convert a price into concrete terms — work-hours or compound-growth — to make the real cost visible.
   The Marshmallow Test and Your Money
2. Tip-of-tongue resolution practice
   When you feel you know something but can’t retrieve it, work the retrieval actively rather than giving up.
   Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You
3. Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical
   Titration, borrowed from chemistry, describes Peter Levine’s principle of working with overwhelming experience in the smallest possible doses — like adding one drop at a time to avoid a reaction that floods and destabilizes. In somatic practice, titration means touching the edges of a difficult memory, sensation, or emotion briefly before retreating to safety, rather than diving into the whole experience at once. This prevents retraumatization and allows the nervous system to process what was previously too much to digest.
4. Reframe a cost against a larger, legitimate reference point
   A price or investment looks smaller when contrasted with a larger relevant figure.
   The Contrast Principle, Made Practical
5. Deciding whether the paid program is worth it
   Weigh TM’s structured, paid instruction against free, similar mantra and meditation practices.
   Transcendental Meditation (TM)
6. Test branches by forming specific, falsifiable hypotheses
   Turn each branch into a testable hypothesis before gathering data.
   Issue Tree Analysis
7. Evaluate a cost against your whole picture, not its tiny bucket
   A small bucket makes a fixed cost feel huge or trivial depending on framing, not reality.
   Mental Accounting, Made Practical
8. Actively choose time over money at decision points
   People who habitually trade money for time report higher life satisfaction than those who do the reverse.
   Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence
9. Add issues to expand the pie
   Bring more variables in — timing, scope, future work — so there’s more to trade.
   Win-Win Thinking: Expanding the Pie
10. Name your present bias before you buy
    Recognize that your brain systematically overvalues right now — naming it weakens its grip.
    The Marshmallow Test and Your Money

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