Coaching practices for I Keep it P Meaning

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  • I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
  • Every idea I come up with, I shoot down as unrealistic before it can go anywhere, so I never escape the sensible little box
  • I tell my kid "good job" all day and it doesn’t seem to change anything
  • I disappear into the screen for hours and surface having completely forgotten what any of it is for
  • The moment we start arguing, any sense that I actually like and respect this person evaporates

Practices that may help

  1. Build meaning through contribution rather than achievement (meaning pillar)
    Orient your work toward what it does for others, not just what it earns you.
    Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
  2. Provocation (PO): make a deliberately absurd statement to escape the pattern
    Prefix an impossible or absurd idea with "PO" to signal it is a provocation, not a proposal — then follow it to see what it unlocks.
    Lateral Thinking, Made Practical
  3. Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block
    Pu (朴, "uncarved block") is a central image in Laozi’s Tao Te Ching representing a state of original simplicity — potential uncluttered by excess conditioning, opinion, and accumulated complexity. As a practice, pu means deliberately returning to essentials: stripping away unnecessary complexity in decisions, possessions, commitments, and inner speech to restore natural responsiveness.
  4. Use descriptive praise instead of generic approval
    Tell the child exactly what they did right so they know what to repeat.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
  5. Value-object anchoring
    Keep a physical object associated with your deepest purpose visible in your workspace.
    Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
  6. Protect fondness actively during and after conflict
    Conflict is the test of PSO — deliberately hold the positive frame while the negative one is loudest.
    Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
  7. Peg System Mnemonics, Made Practical
    The peg system links numbers (or abstract items) to vivid, pre-memorized "peg" images, then fuses new information to those images through bizarre mental pictures. Evidence for the method is primarily mechanistic and practitioner-reported — direct RCT data are limited, but the underlying memory principles (elaborative encoding, dual coding) are well supported.
  8. Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
    Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence.
  9. Pu — simplicity and the uncarved block
    Return regularly to an unconditioned, open state before adding complexity or opinion.
    The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical
  10. Actively maintain memory of your relationship’s positive history
    PSO is partly built on a rich, accessible memory of good times — keep it alive.
    Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships

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