Coaching practices for Values Bullseye After a Setback

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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
• 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 just hit a real failure
• 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

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
3. Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
   Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
   Mastery Experiences
4. 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
5. Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal
   Build a routine for bouncing back so setbacks don’t end the pursuit.
   Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
6. 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
7. Maintain approach framing after a setback
   When you miss, ask "what does success look like from here?" rather than "how bad was the failure?"
   Approach vs Avoidance Goals
8. Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum)
   Briefly imagine losing what you have, so you stop taking it for granted and brace for setbacks.
   Stoicism, as a Set of Practices
9. Reframe feedback from outcome to process
   After any outcome — good or bad — ask "what did I do well?" before "how did it go?"
   The Confidence–Competence Loop
10. 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

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