Coaching practices for Wholehearted Living Guideposts
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep telling myself I’ll finally feel okay about myself once I hit the next thing
- I want to pin down the few things I most want to have stood for when I look back at my whole life
- 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
- My life is arranged almost entirely around my own preferences and comfort, and it’s left me feeling weightless and adrift
- I’m busy chasing things but half of them feel like what I’m supposed to want, not what I actually do
Practices that may help
- Practice wholehearted living
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
Daring Greatly, Made Practical - Write a values declaration as the core of your legacy letter
Name the two to four values you most want to have lived by — then write why they matter to you.
The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind - 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 - Make a commitment that transcends self-interest
Bind yourself to a person, cause, or calling that comes before your own preferences.
The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character - Values clarification
Name the directions you want your life to move in, distinct from goals you can check off.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - Bring contemplative attention to ordinary moments
Practice full presence in mundane activities as a form of sacred attentiveness.
The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical - Map your values across the four life domains
Write one core value statement for each domain — work, relationships, personal growth, leisure — before touching the bullseye.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Act as if sages were watching — the practice of the philosophical community
Before any action, ask: would a person I genuinely respect — who embodies the values I aspire to — approve of this?
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises - Live according to nature
Act in accord with your rational nature and with the nature of the whole — not by instinct alone.
Philosophy as a Way of Life - The practice of living purposefully
Set goals, pursue them deliberately, and monitor whether your actions match your intentions.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Wholehearted Living
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
Practice wholehearted living
- Connect Tasks To Values
A task you find boring can become motivating when you see concretely how it serves a goal that matters to you.
Surface utility value by connecting a task to goals you already care about
- Connection To Living World
When human community feels inaccessible, find the sense of belonging in the natural world you are part of.
Find belonging in nature and the cosmos
- Define Your Values
Imagine how you’d want to be remembered to reveal the values you’d defend most.
Use the eulogy / future-self lens
- Ethical Will Writing
A legacy letter (also called an ethical will) is a written statement of the values, wisdom, and meaning you want to pass on — distinct from a legal will, which handles possessions. Rooted in the Viktor Frankl tradition of meaning-as-a-motivational-force, writing one clarifies what matters most and tends to align daily choices toward what you actually want to have stood for. The evidence is primarily clinical and observational, but the practice is well-established in end-of-life care and is increasingly used across adulthood.
- Existence Precedes Essence Practice
Make your practice your philosophy — not a separate reading life and a separate daily life.
Live what you study
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