Coaching practices for Plan B Ross Greene

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Plan B Ross Greene, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

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

• I have a goal but no path to it, just a mountain of things I could do that all feel equally important
• I’ve quietly decided there’s only one acceptable version of my life and I’m white-knuckling toward it
• My plans hold up fine until something throws them off
• I’ve settled on what I’m going to do and I’m ready to pull the trigger, but I haven’t actually played the tape forward to see where it breaks
• I’ve got a perfectly good plan sitting there, but the important stuff never has an actual slot on my calendar

Practices that may help

1. Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
   Ross Greene’s Collaborative Problem Solving model holds that kids with explosive behavior lack the cognitive skills to handle frustration and inflexibility — not the motivation. The approach replaces punitive consequences with structured adult–child conversations that build lagging skills over time. Randomized trials in clinical settings show significant reductions in explosive behavior, though most real-world evidence is clinical and observational.
2. Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method reframes planning around three questions: What do I want (Result), Why do I want it (Purpose), and What’s the most efficient path (Massive Action Plan). The "why before how" sequence is consistent with motivational research on purpose and implementation intentions. RPM is a practitioner framework rather than a formally studied protocol.
3. Build a Massive Action Plan (MAP)
   Brainstorm every possible action that could move you toward the result, then ruthlessly prune to the ones that actually will.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
4. Draft three genuinely different five-year plans
   Sketch three distinct five-year lives — not variations on the same theme, but genuinely different directions.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
5. Plan for obstacles with coping plans
   Anticipate the specific obstacles most likely to block your plan and pre-decide your response to each.
   Action Planning
6. Run a mental simulation before committing to a course of action
   Before acting on a recognized situation, mentally run through how your intended response plays out.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
7. Chunk and schedule time for key results
   Block specific chunks of time for the actions in your MAP and protect them as non-negotiable.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
8. Run prototyping conversations before committing to a plan
   Talk to people already living your Plan B or C before you decide whether to pursue it.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
9. Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
   Tony Robbins’ method centers on deliberately managing your internal state — through priming, physiology, language, and focus — so that better decisions and actions follow. The practices range from well-supported (gratitude, slow breathing, mental rehearsal) to mechanistically plausible but thinly studied (incantations).
10. Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation
    Empathize with the child’s concern, share yours, and invite them to solve it together.
    Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)

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