Coaching practices for I Keep it P Though Meaning

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • 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
  • I can do the slow breathing fine when I’ve got the app guiding me at home, but the moment I actually need it
  • I keep waffling and breaking my own little promises to myself, so there’s no track record to point to
  • I disappear into the screen for hours and surface having completely forgotten what any of it is for

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. 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
  5. Use decisive action to build, not just express, self-concept clarity
    Make and keep commitments deliberately — each kept commitment is data that builds a clearer self-knowledge over time.
    Self-Concept Clarity, Made Practical
  6. Value-object anchoring
    Keep a physical object associated with your deepest purpose visible in your workspace.
    Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
  7. Ground abstract concepts in concrete, physical instances
    An abstract concept understood only abstractly decays faster than the same concept grounded in a concrete, sensory example.
    Levels of Processing: Why Depth of Encoding Determines What You Remember
  8. Capture what resonates — not everything
    Save notes, highlights, and ideas only when they genuinely spark something — not out of obligation.
    Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical
  9. 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
  10. Substitute
    Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
    SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique

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