Coaching practices for I Keep Catching Myself Making Calls Based on How They'll Make Me Look Rather Than What's Actually Best for the Thing I'm Building I Want My Drive to Be Pointed at the Mission Not at My Own Legacy

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• I keep catching myself making calls based on how they’ll make me look rather than what’s actually best for the thing I’m building
• I keep abandoning things the moment it’s clear I won’t personally see them pay off, and I want to be able to pour myself into something that matters even knowing I’ll be long gone before it’s finished.
• I catch myself walking into every one-on-one asking what I need out of this person, and almost never what would actually help them grow
• So much of what I’m building is really about being remembered, about leaving a monument with my name on it
• I’ve named what I want to stand for, but day to day I just drift along on autopilot and the gap between what I said matters and how I actually spend my time keeps widening

Practices that may help

1. Channel ambition to the institution, not yourself
   Care more about the organization’s success than your personal legacy.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
2. Cathedral thinking
   Commit to projects whose benefits you will not live to see, as medieval builders committed to cathedrals.
   The Good Ancestor: Long-Path Thinking for a Meaningful Life
3. Put the growth of others first
   Start from "how do I help this person succeed?" rather than "how do they help me succeed?"
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
4. Redirect symbolic immortality into genuine contribution
   Channel the drive to "live on" into work that actually benefits others rather than mere legacy-seeking.
   Terror Management Theory, Made Practical
5. Act today as the person your legacy letter describes
   Use the values and commitments in your legacy letter as a daily touchstone for decisions.
   The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind
6. Reason up from the parts, not by analogy
   Build the solution from the fundamentals you kept, rather than copying an existing template.
   First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable
7. Spend real time on growth, not just tasks
   Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
8. Guard against goal-induced tunnel vision on the stretch target
   Intense focus on a specific stretch metric can produce unethical shortcuts or costly neglect of adjacent areas.
   Stretch Goals: When Ambitious Targets Help and When They Backfire
9. Take the outside view (base rates)
   Estimate using the track record of similar cases, not the vivid details of your own.
   Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
10. Apply reverse sunk-cost thinking to existing commitments
    Ask "Would I commit to this today, knowing what I know now?" for every ongoing obligation.
    Essentialism: The Art of Eliminating the Non-Essential

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