Coaching practices for Virtue Gap Analysis

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

• 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
• 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
• There’s a low hum of dissatisfaction in my life I can’t pin down
• I keep trying to fix one trait
• I want to become a better person but "be better" is too vague to act on

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. Valued living audit: how much are you actually living your values?
   Rate both how important each value is and how consistently you have been living it — the gap is where to focus.
   Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
4. Practice virtues as interconnected, not separate
   When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
   Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
5. Identify the virtues you most need to cultivate
   Name the three character traits whose absence most limits you — those are your practice targets.
   Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
6. The values–behavior gap check
   Audit the last week: which of your top values did your actual decisions honor?
   Values Card Sort
7. Deliberate toward the virtuous mean
   For any character choice, identify the deficient extreme and the excessive extreme, then aim between them.
   Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom
8. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
   Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
9. Know your two selves (Adam I and Adam II)
   Distinguish the self that wants to build and achieve from the self that wants to be good.
   The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character
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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