Jake Haver: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Jake Haver, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Make Time, Made Practical
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky’s system runs on a simple daily loop — Highlight, Laser, Energy, Reflect — designed to defend one meaningful priority a day against the pull of "Busy Bandwagon" culture and "Infinity Pool" apps. The components rest on solid ideas about attention, friction, and energy, though the framework is a designer’s synthesis rather than a tested protocol. - The Havening Place (safe-place induction)
Combine havening strokes with a vividly imagined calm location to deepen resource anchoring.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - The Availability Heuristic: Why Memorable Feels Probable
The availability heuristic is the mental shortcut of judging how common or likely something is by how easily examples come to mind. Tversky and Kahneman identified it in 1973. It is adaptive in many everyday situations but systematically misfires for dramatic, recent, or emotionally vivid events — causing consistent over- and underestimation of real-world probabilities. - Slow down adaptation with deliberate savoring
Actively attend to positive experiences in the moment to extract more happiness from what you already have.
The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical - Distinguish protein appetite from general hunger
Learn to recognize the specific "nothing satisfies" hunger that signals a protein shortfall, not just a need for more food.
The Protein Leverage Hypothesis, Made Practical - Map your Hot Spots to see where you invest your life
Define the key life areas (Hot Spots) that matter most and allocate attention across them intentionally.
Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical - Havening to clear pre-performance anxiety
Run a short havening sequence before a high-stakes event to lower physiological anxiety.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - Arm havening stroke
Slowly stroke both forearms from shoulder to elbow while keeping attention off the distress.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical
The hedonic treadmill describes the human tendency to return to a roughly stable level of wellbeing after positive or negative life events — which means that chasing external outcomes for lasting happiness is largely futile. Research since Brickman and Campbell suggests the set point is real but not fixed: deliberate practices (gratitude, savoring, varied experiences) can raise it modestly. - Hara Hachi Bu, Made Practical
Hara hachi bu is the Okinawan practice of eating until you are about 80% full rather than stuffed — a cultural rule of mindful moderation, not a clinical protocol. The evidence is observational and cultural: it is one habit associated with longevity in the Okinawan "Blue Zone", which makes it suggestive rather than proven cause and effect.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I don’t want to only scramble for calm once I’m already in pieces
- The things I once desperately wanted
- There’s this restless, gnawing kind of hunger where I’ve clearly eaten enough but nothing has actually hit the spot
- All my energy pours into work while my body, my friendships, the fun stuff just quietly get nothing
- I’m about to walk in and my heart is pounding, hands cold, mind racing
Related concerns
- Jonathan Haver
Combine havening strokes with a vividly imagined calm location to deepen resource anchoring.
The Havening Place (safe-place induction)
- Arm Havening
Slowly stroke both forearms from shoulder to elbow while keeping attention off the distress.
Arm havening stroke
- Havening Strokes For Anxiety
Slowly stroke both forearms from shoulder to elbow while keeping attention off the distress.
- How To Do Havening At Home
Slowly stroke both forearms from shoulder to elbow while keeping attention off the distress.
- How To Do Self Havening
Self-havening uses slow, repetitive self-touch on the arms, face, and hands — combined with distraction or eye movements — to interrupt acute distress and lower arousal. The proposed mechanism (delta-wave induction via touch de-potentiating traumatic amygdala encodings) is plausible but not yet independently replicated at scale. As a brief self-soothing technique many people find it calming in the moment; it is not a proven clinical treatment and should not replace professional care for trauma or PTSD.
- Self Havening Calming The Nervous System Through Touch During A Big Change
Self-havening uses slow, repetitive self-touch on the arms, face, and hands — combined with distraction or eye movements — to interrupt acute distress and lower arousal. The proposed mechanism (delta-wave induction via touch de-potentiating traumatic amygdala encodings) is plausible but not yet independently replicated at scale. As a brief self-soothing technique many people find it calming in the moment; it is not a proven clinical treatment and should not replace professional care for trauma or PTSD.
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