Coaching practices for Oscillation Performance Loehr

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  • My life keeps swinging between extremes
  • I’m never fully on and never fully off
  • I treat rest as something I only earn after everything else is done, so it’s the first thing I cut
  • I’m breathing along but I have no idea if it’s working
  • I only check in on whether something’s working every few months, and by then I can barely remember what I even tried

Practices that may help

  1. Understand why systems oscillate — and stop overcorrecting
    Delayed feedback loops and overreaction to perceived gaps cause the boom-bust cycles in your own system.
    Stocks and Flows
  2. Oscillate deliberately between full engagement and full recovery
    Treat disengagement between performances as a skill to develop, not an indulgence to manage.
    The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
  3. Treat recovery as a performance investment, not a reward for finishing
    Schedule recovery as deliberately as training — stress without recovery produces breakdown, not growth.
    The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
  4. Use HRV as real-time feedback during sessions
    Watching your HRV oscillate in real time during breathing practice accelerates the learning and strengthens the training effect.
    Resonance Frequency Breathing, Made Practical
  5. Shorten your PDSA cycles until feedback is near-daily
    More loops beat longer loops: compress the cycle time to accelerate learning.
    Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement
  6. The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
    The Ideal Performance State (IPS) is Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s term for the specific combination of physical, mental, and emotional activation at which a performer reliably produces peak output. The IPS is individual-specific — what energizes one performer paralyzes another — and is accessed through deliberate energy management rather than through hoping to "get in the zone."
  7. Analyze your best days — not just your failures — to identify what drives success
    When performance is above target, investigate what made it so: replicating peaks is as important as preventing troughs.
    Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
  8. Regulate the oscillation consciously
    If you are spending too long in one orientation, deliberately shift to the other.
    The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
  9. BOLT score — measure your CO2 tolerance
    The Body Oxygen Level Test gives you a repeatable number to track nasal breathing progress.
    Nasal Breathing for Performance
  10. Deliberately expand your inner circle
    Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
    Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical

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