Coaching practices for Do Nothing Practice

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• I can never find a separate block of time to practice, but I walk to the car and the train and to lunch every day on total autopilot
• My practice lives in a little window and the rest of the day
• When I run the whole thing end to end, my strong parts quietly cover for my weak one, so the actual bottleneck never gets touched
• My calm only lasts as long as the cushion
• My practice has gotten comfortable

Practices that may help

1. Everyday integration — using commute and errand walks as practice
   Transform a portion of routine walking into meditation by choosing one formal practice element to maintain for the duration.
   Walking Meditation, Made Practical
2. Treat every act as an offering — however mundane
   The karma yoga practitioner does not divide life into sacred and secular — every act done with full attention is practice.
   Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
3. Use constraint-based drills to isolate one component
   Remove degrees of freedom so attention concentrates on a single weak sub-skill.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
4. Work as practice (samu)
   Bring full, wholehearted attention to ordinary tasks, treating activity itself as meditation.
   Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond)
5. Train at the edge of your ability
   Work on tasks just beyond what you can reliably do, not what you already do well.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
6. Practice with full, undivided focus
   Short blocks of complete concentration beat long blocks of distracted repetition.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
7. Drill: attack your weakest sub-skill
   Isolate the rate-limiting component and drill it directly.
   Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning
8. Practice letting unsolvable worries be
   For worries you cannot act on, build the skill of acknowledging and releasing rather than rehearsing.
   Worry Postponement, Made Practical
9. Build sharper mental representations
   Develop a detailed internal model of what excellent performance looks like.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
10. Practice titration with low-stakes material to build the skill
    Apply the titration approach to ordinary everyday discomfort — mild frustration, physical tension, minor disappointment — to build the skill before harder material.
    Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical

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