Coaching practices for Values Bullseye After a Loss

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

• Working on my values feels like an endless aspiration with no scoreboard
• I keep telling myself I’m basically living in line with what I care about, but if I’m brutally honest about my actual behavior the last couple of weeks, I suspect I’m way further from the center than I let myself admit
• Even when something goes really well I brush it off as luck or good timing, so the win never actually counts toward believing in myself
• I just bombed at something and I’m stuck swinging between making excuses for it and beating myself up over it
• I keep passing on bets that are clearly worth it over the long run, because the sting of the likely small loss looms so much larger than the rare big win

Practices that may help

1. Values Bullseye, Made Practical
   The values bullseye, developed by Tobias Lundgren within the ACT framework, is a visual exercise in which you rate how close your current behavior is to the bullseye in four life domains — work, relationships, personal growth, and leisure. It converts abstract values into a concrete gap-analysis, making it easier to choose one committed action that moves you toward the center. The exercise is part of the established ACT toolkit; direct evidence for the instrument is limited but the underlying ACT framework has substantial support.
2. Review the bullseye weekly to track real movement
   Re-mark each domain every week and compare — small outward or inward shifts are your feedback loop.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
3. Rate your current position in each domain
   Mark on each domain’s bullseye how closely your recent behavior has matched the value — honestly.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
4. Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
   Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
   Mastery Experiences
5. Affirm a different value after a failure
   When you fail in one area, actively invest in a domain where you know you contribute.
   Self-Affirmation Theory, Made Practical
6. Accept positive-EV decisions even when they feel uncomfortable
   If the expected value is clearly positive, take the decision — even if most individual outcomes are losses.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
7. Use the bullseye to resolve competing values
   When two values pull in different directions, the bullseye shows you which domain is most neglected and most in need of attention.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
8. Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
   Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
9. Zoom out from the single loss to the aggregate
   A loss looks catastrophic in isolation and trivial across the whole portfolio of your life.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
10. Review process goal execution separately from outcomes after each performance
    Evaluate how well you executed your process goals independently of whether you won or lost.
    Process Goals, Made Practical

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