Coaching practices for Identify What is in the Way

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

• I always blame the lack of time or the circumstances, but honestly something in me keeps stopping me
• Something blew up my plans and I’ve just been stewing in how unfair it is
• Whenever I think about why I never get there, I reach for no time, no money, other people
• I sit down and it just isn’t working, so I keep doing the one thing I know
• My report tells me what’s in their way, I nod and mean to handle it, and then it falls off my plate

Practices that may help

1. Obstacle — find the inner obstacle in your way
   Identify the personal, internal block that actually stops you — a habit, feeling, or thought.
   WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
2. Find the advantage inside the obstacle
   Ask what this obstacle makes possible that nothing else would — the way through is often in it.
   The Obstacle Is the Way, in Practice
3. Identify the main internal obstacle that stands between you and the wish
   Ask honestly: what is the primary thing in me — not outside me — that is most likely to block this wish?
   Mental Contrasting and WOOP
4. Precise hindrance identification before applying antidotes
   Before doing anything about a meditation obstacle, name which of the five hindrances is actually present.
   The Five Hindrances: Diagnosing and Working with Meditation Obstacles
5. Use the time to remove blockers
   Ask what’s in their way and then actually clear it — this is your highest-leverage move.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
6. Run a gap analysis on each domain — what would move the needle?
   For each domain you want to improve, name the specific obstacle, not just the desired state.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
7. Treat each obstacle as an opportunity for the discipline of action
   When something blocks your intended action, ask what virtuous response the obstacle itself calls for.
   The Stoic Discipline of Action
8. The Obstacle Is the Way, in Practice
   Ryan Holiday repackages Stoicism into a three-part discipline for turning obstacles into advantage: control your perception of the problem, take deliberate action on it, and use your will to endure what you can’t change. The practices are modern framings of ancient Stoic moves, so their strongest support is the same — the lineage into cognitive reappraisal and the studied benefits of reframing and action.
9. Control your perception of the obstacle
   The obstacle isn’t the problem — your interpretation of it is the first thing you can change.
   The Obstacle Is the Way, in Practice
10. Obstacle anticipation before close
    Before ending, ask "what could get in the way?" and pre-plan the response.
    The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical

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