Coaching practices for Jargon Audit

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• I sprinkle in terms that are just second nature to me without even hearing them as specialist words anymore
• I keep these apps because I’m scared I’ll miss something important, but when I’m honest about what I actually got from all those hours this week, it’s almost nothing
• I finally tracked my time and now I’m staring at the numbers
• I’m good at my job and on top of my commitments, and yet I’m quietly miserable
• Looking at my own numbers has started to feel like getting audited

Practices that may help

1. Run a jargon audit on every key explanation
   Go word by word through your explanation and mark every term a newcomer would not know.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
2. Run a weekly platform value audit
   Once a week, assess whether each platform you used is actually delivering value proportional to the time it received.
   Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy
3. Analyze your log for patterns and surprises
   After logging, find the two or three surprising facts — not the obvious ones.
   The Time Audit
4. Apply the matrix at the role level, not just the task level
   Audit which of your entire roles or commitments are Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 — not just individual tasks.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
5. The Time Audit
   Laura Vanderkam argues that most people do not have a time shortage but a time-awareness problem: they underestimate how much discretionary time exists in 168 weekly hours. A time audit — tracking actual time use for a week — almost always reveals significant gaps between perceived and actual allocation, which is the foundation for intentional redesign. The method is straightforward; the hard part is using what you find.
6. Create a feedback acknowledgment ritual to close each tracking cycle
   A brief, consistent closing ritual after reviewing behavioral data anchors the feedback loop and prevents it from becoming pure surveillance.
   Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
7. Clarify the concepts you are using
   Ask for precise definitions before arguments built on contested or ambiguous terms go far.
   Socratic Questioning
8. Global vs. local JOL separation
   Rate individual items separately from your general sense of "how the session went" — they diverge.
   Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
9. Pair the RACI with a decision log
   Knowing who decides is only half the system — recording what was decided closes the accountability loop.
   The RACI Matrix, Made Practical
10. Encoding variability to reduce JOL inflation
    Study material in varied contexts to counteract the familiarity-based inflation of JOLs.
    Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned

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