Coaching for the challenges people actually bring (page 155)
Start with what is happening in your life. Each concern below opens the closest matches from the IX Coach practice library. Showing 100 / 47301 concerns.
- Brene Brown Daring Greatly
Daring Greatly, Made Practical · Choose vulnerability on purpose · Practice wholehearted living + 7 more
- Brene Brown Empathy Sympathy
Receive others’ shame with empathy, not advice or sympathy · Shame Resilience, Made Practical · Apply self-compassion directly to shame + 7 more
- Brene Brown Imperfection
The Gifts of Imperfection, Made Practical · Practice self-compassion · Let go of perfectionism + 7 more
- Brene Brown Vulnerability
Choose vulnerability on purpose · Daring Greatly, Made Practical · Shame Resilience, Made Practical + 7 more
- A Big Change is Coming and I'm So Focused on What's Next That I'm Treating the Last Weeks of This Chapter as a Waiting Room and I Have a Feeling I'll Regret Rushing Past the End of Something I'll Never Get Back
The last chance before a transition · Full presence with something passing · Do the task in front of you, fully + 7 more
- Brian Moran 12 Week Year
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical · Treat 12 weeks as a full year · Commit to only a few goals per cycle + 7 more
- A Lot Has Changed for Me Lately a New Role a Health Scare a Shift in a Relationship and I'm Still Running on a Sense of Priorities I Set Before All of it and I Can Feel My Behavior Drifting From a Map That No Longer Fits Who I've Become
The seasonal values revisit · Update your love map after major life changes · Update the map as parts shift + 7 more
- Brian Tracy Abcde
The ABCDE prioritization method · Behavioral Chain Analysis: The DBT Method for Understanding Problem Behaviors · USA journaling: write your way to acceptance + 7 more
- Brian Tracy Eat That Frog
Eat That Frog, Made Practical · Slice and dice the task · Plan the night before + 7 more
- Bridge Preferred Future Present
Platform thinking: build capabilities that enable many futures rather than optimizing for one · Filter decisions through "what would future me thank me for?" · Build a vivid, concrete future orientation + 7 more
- Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite Under Stress
Absurdism and the Practice of Meaning Despite · Acknowledge the absurd without flinching · Revolt: keep living fully despite the absurd + 7 more
- Bridging Analogy Teaching
Build a bridging analogy from what they know to what they don’t · Use analogies to transfer structure from known to unknown · Use progressive alignment: start with similar cases and move to more distant ones + 7 more
- Accepting Uncertainty the Core Skill in Cbt for Gad at Work
Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD · Uncertainty Tolerance Training · Shift from negative to positive orientation toward uncertainty + 7 more
- Accepting Uncertainty the Core Skill in Cbt for Gad During Conflict
Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD · Shift from negative to positive orientation toward uncertainty · Directly challenge the belief that uncertainty equals danger + 7 more
- After a Bad Result I Tend to Change Everything at Once and Then When the Next Round Goes Differently I Have No Idea Which Tweak Actually Did it I Want to Move Just One Thing So I Can Finally Tell What's Working
Act on exactly one change before cycling again · Change exactly one element and observe what shifts · Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints + 7 more
- All Day I Do These Little Things to Kill Uncertainty Re Reading the Text I Sent Checking the Forecast Again Mapping Three Backup Routes Just in Case and I Want to Start Small by Deliberately Not Doing One of Them Sitting with the Not Knowing and Slowly Work Up to Bigger Unknowns as I Learn I Can Stand it
Uncertainty Tolerance Training · Build tolerance for uncertainty through graduated exposure · Run uncertainty experiments + 7 more
- Almost Everything That Gives My Life Meaning Rests on One Thing My Job or This One Relationship and I'm Quietly Terrified of How Little Would Be Left of Me If it Ever Went Away Before Any Crisis Has Even Hit
Maintain meaning sources proactively, not only after crisis · Audit which meaning source is currently depleted · Cultivate many small ikigai + 7 more
- Answer Interview Questions Honesty vs Strategically Explaining Career Transitions and Role Changes in Short Time
Practise your story before you need it · Listen for what isn’t in the job description · Prepare questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to + 7 more
- Brief Body Scan Daily Life
The slow, systematic sweep · The 3-minute body check-in — a daily-life bridge · Body Scan Meditation, Made Practical + 7 more
- Being Asked to Change My Last Name in Hr System to Work with it Systems
Use social transitions to change the norms around your behavior · Diagnose the challenge before choosing the response · Update the map as parts shift + 7 more
- Brief Check in Management
Use brief, frequent touch-points rather than long, rare meetings · Keep check-ins short — consistency beats comprehensiveness · Catch people doing things right + 7 more
- Benefit Finding Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity at Work
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity · Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical · Look for genuine benefits without forcing them + 7 more
- Brief Coaching Conversations
Replace performance review conversations with feedforward conversations · Use GROW in brief leadership conversations, not just formal coaching sessions · Close with "What was most useful for you?" + 7 more
- Benefit Finding Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity During Conflict
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity · Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical · Look for genuine benefits without forcing them + 7 more
- Brief Connection Positive Emotion
Create micro-moments of connection · Cultivate micro-moments of connection (positivity resonance) · Share positive experiences with others to amplify them + 7 more
- Benefit Finding Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity Under Stress
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity · Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical · Identify the strengths the hardship revealed + 7 more
- Brief Daily Reflection
Keep it brief and daily · Close with a resolve for tomorrow · The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day + 7 more
- Brief Evening Reflection
Close with a resolve for tomorrow · The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day · End every review with a single resolved next action + 7 more
- Brief Exposure Resource
Use controlled breathing to manage arousal during exposure · The Mere Exposure Effect, Made Practical · Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence + 7 more
- Caffeine and Anxiety What the Research Actually Says During a Big Change
Caffeine and Anxiety: What the Research Actually Says · Recognize when caffeine is worsening anxiety, not helping performance · Run a 2-week caffeine-free anxiety audit + 7 more
- Brief Loving Kindness Exercise
On-the-spot metta in real interactions · Use on-the-spot metta in daily life · Widening the circle of care + 7 more
- Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers During a Big Change
Use environmental context change to weaken existing conditioned habits · Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers · Counter-condition an unwanted cue-response pair + 7 more
- Brief Mantra Practice
Soham — synchronizing mantra with breath · Mantra in motion — using repetition during walking and exercise · Mantra as a transition anchor between activities + 7 more
- Cognitive Load Theory Learning Within Working Memory Limits During a Big Change
Cognitive Load Theory: Learning Within Working Memory Limits · Strip extraneous cognitive load from learning materials · Eliminate split-attention effects + 7 more
- Brief Thought Catching
Portable thought catching: the one-column version · Noting distractions — labeling what pulls attention away · Detached mindfulness: observe thoughts without engaging + 7 more
- Cognitive Processing Therapy Cpt Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain Ptsd at Work
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD · Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely · Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative + 7 more
- Brief Time Out Children
Use a brief reset rather than escalating consequences · Use time-out to regulate, not to punish · Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting) + 7 more
- Brief Tonglen Daily Life
Use flash tonglen in the moment of encountering suffering · Tonglen: sending and taking · Practice tonglen for your own suffering first + 7 more
- Brier Score Forecasting
Maintain a scored prediction log · Decompose complex questions into sub-questions · Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use + 7 more
- Compassion Focused Therapy Calming the Inner Critic During a Big Change
Compassionate Imagery: The Compassionate Image and Safe Place · Working with Multiple Selves (Chair Work in CFT) · Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic + 7 more
- Bright Light After Nap
Activate deliberately after waking from a nap · Use non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) for a midday reset · The power nap (10–20 minutes) + 7 more
- Bright Line Exceptions
Define exceptions in advance, in writing · Bright-Line Rules: When "None" Beats "Some" · Make the line and its crossings visible + 7 more
- Crucial Accountability Holding People to Commitments That Matter at Work
Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter · Close with a specific, confirmed, next-step commitment · Follow through on stated consequences — or don’t state them + 7 more
- Bright Line Rules
Bright-Line Rules: When "None" Beats "Some" · Make the line and its crossings visible · Define exceptions in advance, in writing + 7 more
- Crucial Accountability Holding People to Commitments That Matter During Conflict
Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter · Close with a specific, confirmed, next-step commitment · Follow through on stated consequences — or don’t state them + 7 more
- Brisk Walk Creativity
Matching pace to the mental state you want · Walking for Creativity · Walk to generate ideas (divergent thinking) + 7 more
- Crucial Accountability Holding People to Commitments That Matter Under Stress
Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter · Follow through on stated consequences — or don’t state them · Close with a specific, confirmed, next-step commitment + 7 more
- Brisk Walking Benefits
Walk briskly rather than just accumulating steps · Add load to walks (rucking) for strength and caloric benefit · Walk for cognitive performance and creativity + 7 more
- Broad Input Creativity
Steal, steal, then remix · Build a deliberately broad input diet · Quantity first: generate the most ideas possible before evaluating any + 7 more
- Decision Journaling Learning to Decide Better Over Time at Work
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time · Run a weekly decision review session · Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes + 7 more
- Broaden and Build Curiosity
Cultivate curiosity as a daily emotional practice · Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical · Prioritize skill gains that reveal more of the domain + 7 more
- Decision Journaling Learning to Decide Better Over Time During Conflict
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time · Run a weekly decision review session · Use the journal to externalize decisions you are stuck on + 7 more
- Broaden and Build Play
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical · Protect play and creativity as broadening-state generators · Narrow the scope: a smaller problem space is a richer one + 7 more
- Decision Journaling Learning to Decide Better Over Time Under Stress
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time · Run a weekly decision review session · Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes + 7 more
- Broaden and Build Practices
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical · Use Start-Stop-Keep reviews to drive continuous improvement · Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical + 7 more
- Deliberate Discomfort Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience at Work
Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience · Graduated Discomfort Exposure · Embracing Discomfort: Turning Resistance Into Growth + 7 more
- Broaden and Build Situation Selection
Design your situation for positive emotion, not just negative avoidance · Situation Selection, Made Practical · Curate your social situation portfolio + 7 more
- Deliberate Discomfort Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience During Conflict
Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience · Voluntary Discomfort: The Stoic Practice of Chosen Hardship · Graduated Discomfort Exposure + 7 more
- Broaden and Build Theory
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical · Protect play and creativity as broadening-state generators · Cultivate curiosity as a daily emotional practice + 7 more
- Deliberate Discomfort Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience Under Stress
Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience · Stress Inoculation: Pre-Exposure to Prepare for Future Stress · Voluntary Discomfort: The Stoic Practice of Chosen Hardship + 7 more
- Broken Record Assertiveness
The broken-record technique · Broken record: maintaining a position without escalating · Review thought records to find cognitive patterns + 7 more
- Discipline Equals Freedom Jocko Willink's Framework After a Loss
Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework · Detach from outcomes and focus only on what you control · Build systems that run without motivation + 7 more
- Broken Streak Recovery
Separate your identity from the broken streak · Plan the recovery before the chain breaks · Track streaks as motivation, not as guilt + 7 more
- Discipline Equals Freedom Jocko Willink's Framework After a Setback
Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework · Build systems that run without motivation · Detach from outcomes and focus only on what you control + 7 more
- Bronnie Ware Five Regrets
The Regret of the Dying · Identify one permission you need to give yourself · Audit work hours against your stated priorities + 7 more
- Bronnie Ware Happiness Regret
Identify one permission you need to give yourself · The Regret of the Dying · Practice expressing feelings you habitually suppress + 7 more
- Brooks Excitement Study
Reappraise physiological arousal as activation, not anxiety · Arousal Reappraisal: "I’m Excited, Not Anxious" · Celebrate immediately after each behavior with a felt sense of success + 7 more
- Brooks Law Team Size
Protect the advantages of small — resist headcount as a measure of success · Dunbar's Number · Join a small accountability group + 7 more
- Brown Fat Cold
The metabolic claims (calibrated) · Cold Exposure, Without the Hype · Cold showers for alertness + 7 more
- Bruner Scaffolding
Scaffolding: The Art of Temporary Learning Support · Demonstrate the target performance before demanding it · Systematically fade the scaffold as competence grows + 7 more
- Bryant and Veroff Savoring
Savoring the Moment, Made Practical · Savoring: Getting More From the Good · Sharing good news (capitalizing) + 7 more
- Bucket List Method
The Bucket List Method · Review and revise the bucket list quarterly · Create a shared bucket list with people you love + 7 more
- Bucket List Mortality Awareness
Write the list from a mortality-aware perspective · Deliberate mortality reflection · The Bucket List Method + 7 more
- Bucket List Review
Review and revise the bucket list quarterly · Review the someday list weekly — even briefly · Do a mind sweep to surface anything the system hasn’t captured + 7 more
- Drive Autonomy Mastery and Purpose During a Big Change
Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose · Purpose accountability pairing · Increase autonomy over task, time, technique, and team + 7 more
- Bucket List Time Horizon
Categorize list items by time horizon · Give someday items a time horizon to distinguish near and far · Fund and schedule one item now + 7 more
- Emotional Granularity Precision as a Regulation Skill at Work
Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill · Rate the intensity, not just the type · Track your emotions over time + 7 more
- Buddhism Impermanence Practice
Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence · Sensation-level impermanence noting · Hold impermanence without grief + 7 more
- Emotional Granularity Precision as a Regulation Skill During Conflict
Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill · Social skill · Rate the intensity, not just the type + 7 more
- Buddhism Suffering and Happiness
First noble truth — recognising dukkha honestly · Distinguishing the three types of dukkha · Second noble truth — finding the craving behind the suffering + 7 more
- Emotional Granularity Precision as a Regulation Skill Under Stress
Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill · Rate the intensity, not just the type · Granular labeling: move from broad to specific emotion words + 7 more
- Buddhist Approach to Loss
Integrating loss through the lens of anicca · Reframing loss as transformation · Treating grief as a form of gratitude + 7 more
- Employees Unhappy with Change of Workplace to an Inconvenient Location
Modify the environment to reduce sensory aversion · Inform stakeholders before they ask, not after they complain · Counteract occupational sitting with deliberate after-hours NEAT + 7 more
- Buddhist Approach to Suffering
First noble truth — recognising dukkha honestly · Distinguishing the three types of dukkha · Second noble truth — finding the craving behind the suffering + 7 more
- Energy Management Not Time Management During a Big Change
Energy Management, Not Time Management · Manage energy, not time · Protect mental energy with deep focus blocks + 7 more
- Buddhist Diagnostic Tool
The rapid-cycle four-truths diagnostic in daily life · Fourth noble truth — committing to the path as a practice, not a belief · Precise hindrance identification before applying antidotes + 7 more
- Enough Time Has Gone by Now That I Can Ask Honestly Whether This Changed Me for Real Not the Forced Everything Happens for a Reason Line but Actual Ways My Priorities or Relationships Are Different That I Could Say Out Loud to Someone Who Knew the Whole Cost
Look for genuine benefits without forcing them · Practice retrospective consent · Let adversity reorder your priorities + 7 more
- Buddhist No Self Practice
Anatta: The Buddhist Teaching of No-Self in Practice · Investigating the five aggregates · Don’t make gods into demons + 7 more
- Every Single Decision Funnels Through Me My People Wait on Me to Approve the Smallest Things Work Stalls in My Inbox and I'm Drowning While the Folks Closest to the Actual Problem Sit on Their Hands Because They're Not Allowed to Just Decide
Decentralized command · Transfer authority with the responsibility · Clarify what people can decide without asking + 7 more
- Buddhist Path Empirical
Fourth noble truth — committing to the path as a practice, not a belief · Right view — seeing clearly rather than through distortion · The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework + 7 more
- Everything I Know How to Think with Comes From My Own Field So Every Problem Ends Up Looking Like the Kind of Problem I Already Know How to Solve I Want to Start Deliberately Stealing One Good Idea at a Time From Disciplines I've Never Worked in
Collect models deliberately from fields outside your specialty · Import a frame from a different domain · Intentional field-crossing + 7 more
- Buddhist Path Practice System
Seeing the eight factors as a mutually supporting system, not a checklist · Fourth noble truth — committing to the path as a practice, not a belief · The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework + 7 more
- Everything on My Plate Feels Equally Important So I Spread Myself Across All of it and Make No Real Dent in Any I Need to Name the Single Goal That Would Change Everything and Let Myself Focus There
Define your Wildly Important Goal (WIG) · Identify the single most important output for today · Run two burners at high for a defined sprint + 7 more
- Buddhist Path to End Suffering
Fourth noble truth — committing to the path as a practice, not a belief · Third noble truth — establishing that cessation is actually possible · Distinguishing the three types of dukkha + 7 more
- Exercise Snacks Short Bursts of Movement That Actually Work During a Big Change
Exercise Snacks: Short Bursts of Movement That Actually Work · Micro-Workouts (Exercise Snacks), Honestly Explained · Exercise Snacking, Made Practical + 7 more
- Buddhist Philosophy Daily Life
Bring contemplative attention to ordinary moments · Right view — seeing clearly rather than through distortion · Seeing the eight factors as a mutually supporting system, not a checklist + 7 more
- Expanding the Pie Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference at Work
Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference · Logroll by trading issues of unequal importance · Invent options for mutual gain + 7 more
- Buddhist Self Deconstruction
Investigating the five aggregates · Anatta: The Buddhist Teaching of No-Self in Practice · Using anatta insight during identity crisis + 7 more
- Expanding the Pie Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference During Conflict
Expanding the Pie: Negotiation Beyond Splitting the Difference · Invent options for mutual gain · Logroll by trading issues of unequal importance + 7 more
- Budget Category Names
Design conscious spending categories around your values · Name categories by what they represent, not what they cost · Roll with the punches + 7 more
Or describe your concern in your own words.