Coaching practices for Presence Before Review

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Presence Before Review, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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

• Whenever I review my own day I quietly spin everything to make myself look better, and I know it
• When I do this alone in my head it’s too easy to let myself off the hook and skate past the uncomfortable parts
• Even after I’ve gone through all my lists there’s still this faint background hum that I’m forgetting something
• I know the weekly review is the thing that keeps me sane, but on any given week it always feels optional and something more urgent eats the time
• I started a list of someday ideas months ago and now I dread opening it

Practices that may help

1. Ask for clarity and honest perception
   Before reviewing, pause to ask for the capacity to see honestly rather than defensively.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
2. Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
   A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
3. Do a mind sweep to surface anything the system hasn’t captured
   Before ending the review, spend 5 minutes writing down anything still bothering or nagging in your mind.
   The GTD Weekly Review
4. Schedule the weekly review as a non-negotiable recurring appointment
   Put the weekly review on the calendar as a fixed, protected block — and treat it as an external meeting.
   The GTD Weekly Review
5. Review the someday list weekly — even briefly
   An unreviewed someday list is a guilt pile; a reviewed one is a planning resource.
   The Someday List
6. Become aware of God’s presence and give thanks
   Open the review by pausing, settling, and naming specific gifts from the day.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
7. Calibrate review depth to your current context
   Match the depth of the weekly review to what the week actually calls for — short when the system is current, deeper when life has been chaotic.
   The GTD Weekly Review
8. Give feedback in the moment, not stockpiled for reviews
   Feedback accumulated for a periodic review arrives late and in bulk — neither helps.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
9. Include a trusted other in high-stakes AARs
   Self-conducted AARs have blind spots; a peer or coach who was not inside the event sees the causal story differently.
   After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning
10. Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor
    Review the day as a fair judge would: what was the evidence, what was the verdict, what is the sentence?
    The Pythagorean Evening Review

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