Coaching practices for Enjoy the Process

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Enjoy the Process, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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

• Good moments slip past me because I’m already onto the next thing
• Right in the middle of a good moment a thought pipes up
• The good moments slip past me — a meal, my kid at this age, a season of life — and I only really feel them once they’re gone.
• Good things happen but I’m already onto the next thing before they even register
• Good things are happening and I’m physically right there but mentally somewhere else entirely, running on autopilot

Practices that may help

1. Savor existing goods before pursuing more
   Deliberately notice and extend the experience of present goods — before hedonic adaptation erases them.
   The Mindset of Enough: Contentment Without Complacency
2. Catching the kill-joy thoughts
   Notice and set aside the thoughts that quietly sabotage your enjoyment.
   Savoring: Getting More From the Good
3. Impermanence awareness practice
   Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
   Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection
4. Savoring positive experiences
   Slow down and linger in a pleasant experience — letting it register fully rather than rushing through or narrating it away.
   Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
5. Absorb the present — slow down and attend fully
   Pause whatever you’re doing and engage all your senses with the experience that is happening right now.
   Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
6. Linger in positive experiences (savoring)
   Slow down and fully attend to positive experiences rather than passing through them — the emotional benefit depends on dwelling time.
   Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
7. Sharpening perception and blocking distraction
   Heighten one sense and shut out interruptions to intensify a good experience.
   Savoring: Getting More From the Good
8. Sharpen your senses to deepen the experience
   Deliberately tune into one sensory channel at a time to get more from a pleasurable experience.
   Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
9. Savoring everyday moments
   Deliberately stretch and attend to ordinary good experiences instead of rushing past them.
   Slow Living, Made Practical
10. Savoring positive experiences
    Deliberately prolong and deepen good moments instead of letting them slip past.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical

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