Coaching practices for Values Review Practice

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

• Every time I review how I acted today I catch myself building a defense
• Whenever I review my own day I quietly spin everything to make myself look better, and I know it
• I only ever stop to reflect when something blows up
• Working on my values feels like an endless aspiration with no scoreboard
• I say I value certain things, but when I look honestly at how I actually spent my week, my real priorities were something else entirely

Practices that may help

1. The Stoic Daily Review
   The Stoic daily review is a structured morning-and-evening self-examination practice — rooted in Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus — that trains attention on what is within your control, builds honest self-knowledge, and interrupts reactive patterns before they compound. Evidence is largely mechanistic and clinical; no randomized trials exist, but the underlying cognitive mechanisms align with modern research on self-monitoring and reflection.
2. 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
3. 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
4. The Pythagorean Evening Review
   The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
5. Build a regular AAR cadence, not just crisis-triggered reviews
   Reviews triggered only by problems create a negative-events database; a regular cadence captures ordinary learning that compounds.
   After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning
6. 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
7. Check action against stated values — the alignment review
   Once a week, compare your stated values to your actual choices and name the gap honestly.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
8. Reduce: convert main notes to questions in the cue column
   After the session, cover your notes and write a question in the cue column for each main idea.
   Cornell Note-Taking: A System for Learning, Not Just Recording
9. Begin with gratitude
   Start the review by recalling specific gifts and good moments of the day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
10. The GTD Weekly Review
    The GTD weekly review is a structured 1–2 hour practice recommended by David Allen in Getting Things Done: you clear your inboxes, review all active projects and next actions, update your lists, and regain what Allen calls "mind like water." Evidence that the full review improves outcomes is largely practitioner-reported; the underlying components — external capture systems, project-level reviews, and outcome clarification — are consistent with cognitive offloading and self-regulation research.

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