Coaching practices for How to Avoid Wishing My Coworker on Her Birthday

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• I can wholeheartedly wish the people I love safety and ease, but the moment I try to send those same good wishes toward myself I hit a wall
• I want to learn to feel genuine joy for people who do well, but if I imagine a rival succeeding I just curdle
• There’s one person I can’t stop resenting, and the bitterness loops in my head and exhausts me
• I keep quietly blocking off my focus time and saying nothing, and then seething every time a colleague books right over it
• There’s one particular person I can’t even think about without my whole body tightening with resentment

Practices that may help

1. Send yourself the same loving wishes you send others
   Expand loving-kindness practice inward — toward yourself as you would toward a beloved friend.
   The Self-Compassion Break
2. Directed mudita meditation
   Systematically send sympathetic joy to easy, neutral, and difficult targets — in that order.
   Mudita: How to Cultivate Sympathetic Joy
3. Work the difficult-person stage without forcing
   Extend metta to a difficult person not as approval of their actions but as unconditional goodwill for their wellbeing.
   Metta Bhavana: The Practice of Loving-Kindness
4. Communicate your theme-day structure to collaborators
   Let colleagues know which days are off-limits for meetings so the structure is sustainable, not secret.
   Theme Days, Made Practical
5. Compassion meditation for widening the circle
   Extend deliberate well-wishing to people you find difficult, building non-aversion before you encounter them.
   Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
6. Loving-kindness toward yourself
   Begin by directing the well-wishes inward — “may I be safe, happy, healthy, at ease.”
   Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation
7. Offer office hours to concentrate collaboration
   Designate one or two open windows per day when collaborators can reach you freely, then protect everything else.
   Maker vs Manager Schedule
8. Create meaningful grief rituals
   Establish regular practices that honour the person and mark the ongoing relationship.
   Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical
9. Wish — name a meaningful, challenging goal
   Pick one wish that is hard but feasible, and that genuinely matters to you.
   WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
10. Identify one permission you need to give yourself
    Name the specific permission you are withholding from yourself that stands between you and more happiness.
    The Regret of the Dying

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