Coaching practices for What Did Not Go Well

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For What Did Not Go Well, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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

• It didn’t work out and I’m beating myself up as if a bad result automatically means I did badly
• When something doesn’t land the way I hoped, I write the whole thing off as a failure and myself along with it
• I lost, so I’ve written the whole thing off as a failure
• It went fine, and now a voice says all that worry was a waste and I could ease off next time
• One thing goes badly — a single rough conversation — and within an hour it’s bled into everything, like I’m suddenly bad at relationships, bad at my job, bad at all of it, when really it was just that one moment that didn’t go well.

Practices that may help

1. Review actions through the reserve clause lens
   After a disappointing outcome, ask: did I act well? If yes, the discipline is complete — the outcome is not the measure.
   The Stoic Reserve Clause
2. 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
3. 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
4. Debrief after performance without letting relief collapse the strategy
   After a successful performance, acknowledge the outcome honestly without abandoning the preparation habit that produced it.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
5. Make attributions specific, not global
   Keep the explanation for failure in the domain where it happened — resist letting it spill into a verdict on your whole self.
   Attributional Retraining, Made Practical
6. Evaluate the outcome and adjust
   After implementing, honestly assess what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next.
   Problem-Solving Therapy, Made Practical
7. Treat errors as adjacent-possible expansion events
   When something goes wrong, ask what new territory the failure has made visible that success would have hidden.
   The Adjacent Possible, Made Practical
8. Debrief against process goals, not just the outcome
   After performance, evaluate whether you executed your process goals before evaluating the result.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
9. Balance the review with a genuine positive inventory
   List three specific things you did well today — not three things that went well, but three things you did.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
10. Actively restore the ratio after a major rupture
    After a bad fight, the ratio is temporarily negative -- restoration requires intentional positive investment.
    The Magic Relationship Ratio: Gottman's 5-to-1 Principle

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