Coaching practices for I Keep it P Tho Meaning

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  • I tell my kid "good job" all day and it doesn’t seem to change anything
  • 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 walk into everything already sure how it’ll go
  • I lose my temper with my kid and then feel sick about it for hours

Practices that may help

  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Pu — simplicity and the uncarved block
    Return regularly to an unconditioned, open state before adding complexity or opinion.
    The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical
  6. Manage your own emotional state before responding
    A regulated parent is the single most powerful behavior management tool available.
    Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
  7. The discipline of action
    Act for the common good, with a "reserve clause": I intend this, fate permitting.
    The Inner Citadel
  8. Capture everything into a trusted inbox
    Get every open loop out of your head and into one external place you trust.
    Getting Things Done (GTD), Made Practical
  9. 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
  10. Internalize the rhythm to breathe without a pacer
    Practice with a pacer until the five-breaths-per-minute rhythm becomes automatic without counting.
    Coherent Breathing, Made Practical

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