Coaching practices for Michael Bungay Stanier Questions

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

• I keep doing just enough to clear the bar and then coasting, and it’s quietly become who I think I am
• I get so pulled into whatever I’m thinking or feeling that I lose any sense of solid ground
• I hit the point where everything in me says I’m done and I stop right there, but part of me suspects I had way more left
• Something blew up my plans and I’ve just been stewing in how unfair it is
• Some of what I’m tracking has quietly become just who I am now

Practices that may help

1. The Coaching Habit: Seven Questions to Be More Coach-Like
   Michael Bungay Stanier’s seven questions — from "What’s on your mind?" through "What was most useful for you?" — are a practical system for coaching conversations that takes less than a minute to learn and a career to master. The framework is practitioner-derived from behavioral coaching practice; its mechanisms are grounded in autonomy support, self-determination, and the generation effect. The questions work because they shift the cognitive labor back to the person who owns the problem.
2. The Morning Questions
   Marshall Goldsmith’s morning questions are a daily active question routine in which you score yourself each morning on whether you "did your best" to pursue specific values-based commitments the previous day. The practice reframes self-monitoring from passive measurement ("how did X go?") to active responsibility ("did I try?"), which research on active questions suggests produces greater engagement and honest self-assessment. The evidence base is practitioner-clinical; large-scale trials are limited.
3. Outperform expectations in every context
   Becoming the person who consistently delivers beyond what’s expected is a discipline practice, not just a performance tactic.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
4. Resting in the seat of awareness
   Settle back into the center of consciousness that is simply aware, behind all experience.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
5. Apply the 40% rule when you want to quit
   When your mind says you’re done, you’re at roughly 40% of your actual capacity — there’s more.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
6. 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
7. Graduating a question when the behavior becomes automatic
   Retire a question from the list when it scores consistently 8 or above — mastery earned is bandwidth freed.
   The Morning Questions
8. Replace statements with questions in familiar territory
   Wherever you would normally state a conclusion, form it as a genuine question instead.
   Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical
9. The Untethered Soul, In Practice
   Michael Singer’s teaching is that you are not your thoughts and emotions but the awareness that observes them — "the seat of awareness." The practical moves are noticing the inner voice, choosing to relax and release stuck emotional energy rather than suppress or indulge it, and keeping the "inner gate" open through whatever arises. These are experiential teachings; some overlap with studied mechanisms like decentering and acceptance, but Singer’s framing is not a clinically tested protocol.
10. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
    Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
    The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice

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