Coaching practices for Warren Buffett S Two List Strategy After a Setback

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  • I either cling to priorities I set ages ago that don’t fit my life anymore, or I only ever rethink them in a panic when something’s already going wrong
  • It’s not junk that derails me
  • I’ve decided the lesson from this success is “focus narrow” or “go big”
  • Whenever I try to narrow down what matters most I can’t bring myself to actually cut anything
  • I pour my energy into clever little optimizations and edge-case improvements while some giant, obvious way to blow the whole thing up sits there untouched

Practices that may help

  1. Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
    The Buffett two-list strategy asks you to write down 25 career or life goals, circle the top 5, then treat everything else on the list as active avoidances — not "do later" items. The story is apocryphal and its precise origin is unverified, but the underlying principle — that near-priority goals steal attention from top priorities — is consistent with how cognitive resources and opportunity costs work.
  2. Run a quarterly focus review to refresh the lists
    Revisit and rebuild both lists every quarter — priorities shift, and so should the lists.
    Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
  3. Treat items 6–25 as active avoidances, not a later list
    Everything not in your top 5 must be actively avoided — it is your "do-not-do" list.
    Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
  4. Steelman the strategy opposite to the successful one
    Before adopting a lesson from a success story, build the best possible case for the opposite approach.
    Survivorship Bias: Learning from What You Can’t See
  5. Circle your top 5 without negotiating
    From 25, choose exactly 5 — the ones you’d feel worst about not doing.
    Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
  6. Optimize for avoiding stupidity, not brilliance
    Munger: "It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid."
    Inversion: Solve Problems Backward
  7. Keep your Focus List physically visible
    Post your top 5 somewhere unavoidable so every new request gets evaluated against them.
    Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
  8. Leave it alone: resist the urge to check and trade frequently
    Check your portfolio quarterly at most; intervene only for planned rebalancing.
    Automatic Investing, Made Practical
  9. Use the DCA system to override market fear
    A pre-committed investment system is the primary tool for defeating loss aversion at market bottoms.
    Dollar-Cost Averaging, Made Practical
  10. Make the lump-sum vs DCA decision with honest math
    When you have a windfall, invest it in full unless the evidence for waiting is behavioral, not mathematical.
    Dollar-Cost Averaging, Made Practical

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