Coaching for the challenges people actually bring (page 234)
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- Kasina Parikamma Nimitta
Kasina Meditation: Concentration Through a Physical Object · Developing the preliminary sign (parikamma nimitta) · Using kasina nimitta to enter the first jhana + 7 more
- Kasina Stages
Kasina Meditation: Concentration Through a Physical Object · Varying the kasina element to address specific obstacles · Using kasina nimitta to enter the first jhana + 7 more
- Katherine Milkman Temptation Bundling
Temptation Bundling, Made Practical · Design a bundle where the want is only available during the should · Temptation bundling + 7 more
- Keating Five Categories Thoughts
Releasing all thoughts without judgment · Blue hat: manage the thinking process itself · Detached mindfulness: observe thoughts without engaging + 7 more
- Keating Practice Schedule
Sitting for twenty minutes, twice daily · Centering Prayer: The Method of Thomas Keating · Carrying contemplative consent into daily activity + 7 more
- Keating Word Selection
Deliberate strategy selection · Lectio: reading slowly and receptively · Settling on purpose + 7 more
- Keep a Task System Current
Run a weekly review · Keep a simple, few-list system · Carry unfinished tasks to tomorrow’s list — and evaluate whether they belong + 7 more
- Keep Going Compound Effect
Push through the plateau · The Compound Effect, Made Practical · Manage your inputs and influences + 7 more
- Keep Investing in Downturn
Never pause DCA during downturns — they are when it works best · Actively watch for escalation of commitment · Use the DCA system to override market fear + 7 more
- Keep Small Commitments
Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It · Schedule mini habits at fixed times rather than flexible "whenever" · Run a weekly accountability session + 7 more
- Keep the Cue Swap Routine
Habit Substitution: Swap the Routine, Keep the Reward · Fire the new routine on the original cue · Keep the cue and reward; swap only the routine + 7 more
- Keep Your Promises Trust
Build reliability by making smaller, keepable promises · Build reliability through small, visible commitments · Build sincerity by saying only what you mean + 7 more
- Keeping Commitments
Commitment Contracts, Made Practical · Run a weekly accountability session · Make a public commitment to create social accountability + 7 more
- Keeping in Touch Professionally
Weak-tie maintenance rituals · Follow up every meaningful interaction · Send a meaningful thank-you note + 7 more
- Keeping Options Open Cost
Price the cost of keeping options open · Know when to close a painful mental account · Settling on purpose + 7 more
- Keeping Promises Professionally
Build reliability by making smaller, keepable promises · Build reliability through small, visible commitments · Run a weekly accountability session + 7 more
- Keeping Promises to Yourself
The practice of personal integrity · Build trust with yourself through consistent small commitments · Run a weekly accountability session + 7 more
- Keeping Relaxation Skills
Maintain the skill with regular abbreviated practice · Release-only relaxation: drop the tension phase · The release-only shortcut + 7 more
- Keeping the Heart Open
Keeping your inner gate open · Evoke a positive emotion to deepen HRV coherence · The heartbeat phrase ("My heartbeat is calm and regular") + 7 more
- Keeping Up with Joneses
Audit the reference groups driving your spending · Weak-tie maintenance rituals · Schedule metric checks instead of monitoring continuously + 7 more
- Keeping Up with the Joneses
Audit the reference groups driving your spending · Recognize which upgrades stop feeling good quickly · Weak-tie maintenance rituals + 7 more
- Kegan Fourth Order
Practice third-order perspective-taking · Develop your own compass for decisions · Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical + 7 more
- Kegan Stages
Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical · Practice third-order perspective-taking · Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development + 7 more
- Kelly Mcgonigal Willpower Instinct
The Willpower Instinct: What Self-Control Actually Is · Track when your willpower is high and low across the day · Reduce the demand on willpower through environment design + 7 more
- Keltner Collective Rituals
Seek awe in collective rituals and shared experience · Create and protect rituals of connection · Draw a mandala immediately after the session + 7 more
- Keltner Everyday Awe
Build a personal catalog of micro-awe triggers · Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion · Use awe to expand your felt sense of time + 7 more
- Kennon Sheldon Goals
Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical · Excavate core values before writing goals · Audit why you are pursuing each goal + 7 more
- Kensho and Practice
Continuing practice after insight (post-kensho) · Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) · Koan practice and daily ethical conduct (sila) + 7 more
- Key Life Moments Exercise
Identifying the turning points that shaped you · Explore your nuclear episodes · Peak experience analysis + 7 more
- Key Premise in Argument
Surface the hidden premises · Surface and test underlying assumptions · Lead with argument quality on the central route + 7 more
- Key Results Examples
OKRs for People, Not Just Companies · Define measurable Key Results · Name three outcomes each day + 7 more
- Keysar Closeness Bias
Closeness-Communication Bias · Default to assuming you’ve been misunderstood · Adjust for your egocentric starting point + 7 more
- Keysar Perspective
Adjust for your egocentric starting point · Observe from multiple angles before drawing conclusions · Return from proportion to action + 7 more
- Keyword Method Vocabulary
Run a jargon audit on every key explanation · Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations · Substitute abstract terms with concrete stand-ins + 7 more
- Keyword Mnemonic Method
Use acronyms and narratives to compress chunks · Substitute abstract terms with concrete stand-ins · Deliberately explore the most unlikely combinations + 7 more
- Khafi Dhikr Naqshbandi
Silent dhikr (khafi): inner remembrance · Coordinating dhikr with the breath · Hadra: the Sufi dhikr ceremony + 7 more
- Kill Joy Thinking
Catching the kill-joy thoughts · Directed mudita meditation · Using gratitude as a bridge to mudita + 7 more
- Kill Your Darlings Writing
The integration letter to a disowned part · Enforce the no-re-reading rule for eight weeks · Compassionate letter to yourself + 7 more
- Killingsworth Gilbert
Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical · Know your two selves (Adam I and Adam II) · Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical + 7 more
- Kim Scott Care Personally
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor · Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life · Care personally without lowering the bar + 7 more
- Kim Scott Radical Candor
Radical Candor, Made Practical · Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor · Care personally + 7 more
- Kind Friend Perspective Self Compassion
Compassionate Letter Writing · Replace critic monologue with compassionate self-talk · Write from the voice of an unconditionally kind friend + 7 more
- Kind Inner Voice
Developing the Compassionate Self Voice · Identify your Self 1 interference in real time · Name and externalize the inner critic + 7 more
- Kind Response to Slip
Treat a lapse as data, not failure · Repair a poor response · Pair the rule with self-compassion, not self-criticism + 7 more
- Kind Self Talk
Replace critic monologue with compassionate self-talk · Warm self-talk · Developing the Compassionate Self Voice + 7 more
- Kindle Instead of Phone
Use a dedicated e-reader instead of a phone for reading · Single-Purpose Devices · Replace phone scrolling with a physical book at bedtime + 7 more
- Kindle Instead of Phone Reading
Use a dedicated e-reader instead of a phone for reading · Replace phone scrolling with a physical book at bedtime · Single-Purpose Devices + 7 more
- Kindness and Happiness
Extend kindness toward strangers, not just your inner circle · Acts of Kindness, Made Practical · Reflect briefly on kind acts after doing them + 7 more
- Kindness Cascade
Notice the ripple — secondary effects beyond the immediate act · Cluster your acts of kindness into one day · Extend kindness toward strangers, not just your inner circle + 7 more
- Kindness Clustering
Cluster your acts of kindness into one day · Extend kindness toward strangers, not just your inner circle · Widening the circle of care + 7 more
- Kindness Intervention
Include acts of kindness toward yourself · On-the-spot metta in real interactions · Extend kindness toward strangers, not just your inner circle + 7 more
- Kindness Journaling
Reflect briefly on kind acts after doing them · Emotion journaling using the Feeling Wheel as a prompt · On-the-spot metta in real interactions + 7 more
- Kindness to Yourself
Include acts of kindness toward yourself · Loving-kindness toward yourself · Self-kindness over self-judgment + 7 more
- Kinesthetic Imagery
Use a first-person kinesthetic perspective · Add sensory channels beyond vision · Image the process, not the outcome + 7 more
- Kinesthetic Perspective Imagery
Use a first-person kinesthetic perspective · Add sensory channels beyond vision · Image the process, not the outcome + 7 more
- Kinesthetic Visualization
Use a first-person kinesthetic perspective · Add sensory channels beyond vision · Image the process, not the outcome + 7 more
- Kinhin Breath Steps
Coordinating breath with each step · Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation · Adjusting kinhin pace to match the sit + 7 more
- Kinhin Eyes Open
Practicing with eyes open and lowered · Developing the preliminary sign (parikamma nimitta) · Eyes-open intimacy: contact without merger + 7 more
- Kinhin Foot Awareness
Attention on foot and ground contact · Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation · Walking kinhin in ordinary settings + 7 more
- Kinhin Form and Posture
Basic kinhin form and posture · Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation · Adjusting kinhin pace to match the sit + 7 more
- Kinhin Pace
Adjusting kinhin pace to match the sit · Build pace gradually — 1 stroke/second before going faster · Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation + 7 more
- Kinhin Transition Practice
Using kinhin as a transition between sitting and activity · Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation · Walking kinhin in ordinary settings + 7 more
- Kinhin Zen Walking Meditation During a Big Change
Using kinhin as a transition between sitting and activity · Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation · Kinhin — formal Zen walking meditation between sits + 7 more
- Kintsugi Practice Life
Kintsugi: treating your breaks as history, not defects · Slowing down with handmade and natural materials · Noticing beauty in imperfection + 7 more
- Klein Premortem Technique
The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed · Run a premortem before committing · Write a brief final accounting + 7 more
- Knoblich Insight
Break apart perceptual chunks that may be blocking you · Develop a shared vocabulary for tacit distinctions · Extract a generalizable principle from what you observed + 7 more
- Know Thyself Journaling
Know thyself: directed self-inquiry journaling · Self-Distancing Journaling · The distanced daily debrief + 7 more
- Know Thyself Practice
Know thyself — map your actual values against your actions · The Socratic Method, Made Practical · Know thyself: directed self-inquiry journaling + 7 more
- Know Your Limits
Tolerate the guilt and pushback · Follow through with consequences · Schedule boundary conversations — don’t have them reactively + 7 more
- Know Your Triggers
Map your personal emotion triggers · Use the map to prepare for known triggers · Map your urge triggers + 7 more
- Know Your Urge Triggers
Map your urge triggers · Plan ahead for predictable triggers · Understand the anatomy of an urge + 7 more
- Knowing When to Stop
Knowing when to stop · Using "enough" as a stopping rule · Stopping at 80% full + 7 more
- Knowing Your Partner
Apply the love map in small daily moments · Share your own inner world to build the map reciprocally · Build and update love maps + 7 more
- Knowing Your Partner Deeply
Share your own inner world to build the map reciprocally · Apply the love map in small daily moments · Build and update love maps + 7 more
- Knowing Yourself Accurately
Calibrate your confidence against real testing · Self-Concept Clarity, Made Practical · Build self-knowledge from behavioral evidence + 7 more
- Knowing Yourself Clearly
Self-Concept Clarity, Made Practical · Audit your self-beliefs for consistency · Build self-knowledge from behavioral evidence + 7 more
- Knowledge Articulation
Articulation prompts · Teach cases to solidify and test your own patterns · Build a bridging analogy from what they know to what they don’t + 7 more
- Knowledge Boundary Identification
Know and mark the edges of your circle · Map your Johari Window with a trusted person · Map your network clusters + 7 more
- Knowledge Gaps
Knowledge-boundary identification · Separate “the world is uncertain here” from “I don’t know enough yet” · Build an explicit map of what you don’t know + 7 more
- Knowledge Gaps Before Deciding
Log the information you wished you had · Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions · Knowledge-boundary identification + 7 more
- Known Unknowns
Distinguish risk from ambiguity before reacting · Expand the Unknown quadrant through challenge and experience · Build an explicit map of what you don’t know + 7 more
- Known vs Unknown Odds
Distinguish risk from ambiguity before reacting · Ambiguity Aversion — Why Unknown Odds Feel Worse Than Bad Odds · Use maximin reasoning for high-stakes, irreversible decisions under ambiguity + 7 more
- Koan and Body Sensation
Dropping the koan into the body · Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Track body sensation (the felt sense) + 7 more
- Koan and Ethics
Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Koan practice and daily ethical conduct (sila) · Presenting understanding to a teacher (sanzen) + 7 more
- Koan and Teacher
Presenting understanding to a teacher (sanzen) · Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Receiving and holding a first koan + 7 more
- Koan and Zazen
Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Integrating the koan with seated meditation · Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) + 7 more
- Koan in Daily Life
Carrying the koan through daily life · Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Presenting understanding to a teacher (sanzen) + 7 more
- Koan Meditation Session
Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Integrating the koan with seated meditation · Receiving and holding a first koan + 7 more
- Koan Practice
Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Presenting understanding to a teacher (sanzen) · Carrying the koan through daily life + 7 more
- Koan vs Mantra
Zen Koans: Inquiry Beyond Reason · Koan practice · Presenting understanding to a teacher (sanzen) + 7 more
- Kobasa Hardiness
Psychological Hardiness, Made Practical · Cultivate commitment by finding meaningful stakes in your current work · Build perceived control by focusing on your sphere of influence + 7 more
- Kolb Active Experimentation
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle: Learning by Doing and Reflecting · Test your updated model in new situations · Complete the full cycle — do not skip stages + 7 more
- Kolb Concrete Experience
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle: Learning by Doing and Reflecting · Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice · Extract a generalizable principle from what you observed + 7 more
- Kolb Learning Cycle Stages
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle: Learning by Doing and Reflecting · Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice · Complete the full cycle — do not skip stages + 7 more
- Kolb Reflective Journal
Keep a learning journal to externalize and accumulate reflections · Extract a generalizable principle from what you observed · Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle: Learning by Doing and Reflecting + 7 more
- Kolb Reflective Observation
Extract a generalizable principle from what you observed · Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle: Learning by Doing and Reflecting · Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice + 7 more
- Korzybski Map Territory
The Map Is Not the Territory · ZOPA: The Zone of Possible Agreement · Add the strongest objection to every major supporting reason + 7 more
- Krishna Arjuna Teaching
The Bhagavad Gita on Action: Nishkama Karma in Practice · Practise sthitaprajna — the steady-minded response to difficulty · Dedicate action to something beyond personal gain + 7 more
- Kristin Neff Common Humanity
Common Humanity, Made Practical · Connect to common humanity in moments of failure · Apply self-compassion directly to shame + 7 more
- Kristin Neff Fierce Self Compassion
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical · Apply self-compassion directly to shame · Self-Compassion, Made Practical + 7 more
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