Coaching practices for I Keep it P Meaning Slang

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  • 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 keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
  • We have our own little shortcuts and looks that work fine day to day, but the second we’re upset those same phrases get read totally wrong
  • 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

Practices that may help

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  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. 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
  5. Reduce reliance on relationship shorthand in high-stakes moments
    Save the code language for low-stakes moments; use full sentences when it matters.
    Closeness-Communication Bias
  6. 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)
  7. Value-object anchoring
    Keep a physical object associated with your deepest purpose visible in your workspace.
    Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
  8. Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
    Triple P — Positive Parenting Program — is a multilevel evidence-based parenting support system developed by Matthew Sanders at the University of Queensland. It teaches positive relationship skills, proactive management strategies, and calm responses to misbehavior. Multiple meta-analyses and RCTs support its effectiveness for reducing child behavior problems and parent stress, making it one of the most rigorously evaluated parenting programs in the world.
  9. Batch low-value digital communication
    Move texting, liking, and quick replies into scheduled windows instead of an all-day trickle.
    Digital Minimalism, Made Practical
  10. Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
    Meaning research — particularly work by Baumeister, Steger, and Frankl-influenced researchers — finds that purpose is not a permanent state but something that must be actively maintained. "Purpose anchors" are concrete prompts, rituals, and artifacts that bring a person’s larger sense of why back into attentional focus across ordinary days.

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