Coaching practices for Daring Greatly During a Big Change

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

  • There’s a thing I want to say or ask for, but I can’t make myself do it without knowing how they’ll take it first
  • Every time I set out to change something, I aim big and then just freeze
  • There’s a conversation I know I need to have
  • I’ve got a big move (or a new job) coming up in a couple of months, and I can feel it’s a rare chance to start fresh
  • A big change is coming and I’m so focused on what’s next that I’m treating the last weeks of this chapter as a waiting room

Practices that may help

  1. Daring Greatly, Made Practical
    Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
  2. Choose vulnerability on purpose
    Show up and let yourself be seen when there is no guarantee of the outcome.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  3. Shrink the step below the fear threshold
    Make the change so small it provokes no resistance — then it actually gets done.
    Kaizen: Change by Tiny Steps
  4. Develop emotional courage
    Choose discomfort deliberately when the values-aligned path is harder — courage is a practice, not a trait.
    Emotional Agility, Made Practical
  5. Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
    Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
    The Habit Discontinuity Effect
  6. The last chance before a transition
    Before a major life change, fully inhabit what is ending, rather than only anticipating what comes next.
    The Last Time Meditation
  7. Practice wholehearted living
    Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  8. Make tiny tweaks, not heroic leaps
    Change behavior by adjusting the smallest action in the direction of your values — not by waiting until you feel ready.
    Emotional Agility, Made Practical
  9. Regulate the level of distress in the system
    Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
    Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
  10. Confront the brutal facts while maintaining faith in the outcome
    Hold two things at once: unflinching honesty about current reality and unwavering belief in ultimate success.
    Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders

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