Coaching practices for Money Values Exercise

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

• The math says this bet is worth taking, but if it goes wrong the loss would genuinely wreck me
• A price in dollars is just an abstract number I judge by "can I afford it"
• A few dollars a day on some little habit feels like nothing in the moment, so I never connect it to anything
• I’ll happily blow money that came from one place and clutch the exact same amount from another, and I’m starting to see my choices are being run by what I’ve labeled the money rather than whether the thing is actually worth it.
• I’m about to drop a chunk of money on something I’m sure will make me happy, but I’m only picturing that one purchase

Practices that may help

1. Adjust raw expected value for risk aversion on large stakes
   A 50% chance of losing everything is not equivalent to a certain 50% loss — adjust for your actual risk tolerance.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
2. 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
3. Calculate the opportunity cost of a recurring habit
   Convert any regular expense into its 10-, 20-, and 30-year invested value.
   The Latte Factor: Small Spending and the Cost of Habit
4. Treat money as fungible across the buckets
   A dollar is a dollar no matter which mental account it sits in — decide accordingly.
   Mental Accounting, Made Practical
5. Apply the "value per dollar" test to major purchases
   Before a large purchase, ask how much wellbeing per dollar this generates relative to alternatives at the same cost.
   Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
6. Convert time decisions to a common currency
   Ask "what is my time worth per hour?" and price time commitments in that currency.
   Opportunity Cost Thinking: What You Give Up When You Choose
7. Audit the endowment effect
   You overvalue what you already own simply because it is yours — price it as a stranger would.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Pricing things in life-hours
   Convert a purchase into the hours of your life it costs to earn, then decide.
   Voluntary Simplicity, Made Practical
10. Run a values card sort
    Sort a deck of value words into keep/maybe/discard to surface what actually matters.
    Values Clarification, Made Practical

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