Coaching practices for Functional Emotions Performance

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• Everyone tells me to get calm and positive before I perform, but honestly some of my best moments came when I was actually a little angry or on edge
• I spend all day arranging my face into the cheerful, capable version everyone expects while I feel nothing like it inside, and holding that mask up hour after hour is leaving me hollowed out and weirdly unsure of what I even feel underneath it anymore.
• Everyone tells me to "just stay calm" before the big moment, but calm leaves me flat and underpowered
• By the time I get to the people who matter I’ve got nothing left to give them
• A feeling slams into me and I have no idea where it came from or why it’s this big

Practices that may help

1. Expand the IZOF profile to include positive and negative emotions
   Map which emotions — not just anxiety — are functional for your performance, and which are dysfunctional.
   The Zone of Optimal Functioning: Hanin’s IZOF Model
2. Stop surface acting
   Recognize when you’re masking emotions at work or in relationships, and find low-cost outlets for what you actually feel.
   Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical
3. Regulate emotional tone as part of performance preparation
   Identify the specific emotional tone (challenged, confident, competitive, calm) your IPS requires — and practice producing it.
   The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
4. Build emotional energy rituals to buffer against daily depletion
   Emotional energy is the quality of emotional availability you bring to work and relationships — and it is trainable through brief daily rituals.
   Energy Management, Not Time Management
5. Understand the function of the emotion
   Every emotion evolved because it does something useful — learn what yours is trying to do.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
6. Identify and shift emotional energy drains
   Chronic negative emotions are not just unpleasant — they are metabolic and cognitive loads that drain performance capacity.
   The Energy Audit
7. Locate the emotion in the body as well as naming it
   After naming an emotion on the Feeling Wheel, find where it lives in the body.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
8. Red hat: name the emotions without justifying them
   Give feelings a legitimate place in the discussion — the red hat makes emotional data explicit so it stops running covertly.
   Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
9. Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
   Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
   The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
10. Manage emotional energy
    Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
    The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical

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