Coaching practices for Trust Self 2 Gallwey

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

• I won’t hand anyone real responsibility until they’ve completely proven themselves first
• There’s an area of my life
• I’m always making plans with myself and breaking them, and somewhere along the way I stopped trusting my own word
• I’d never speak to anyone else the way I speak to myself
• The second something gets hard I find a reason to back off, and I’m tired of being that soft with myself

Practices that may help

1. Extend trust deliberately to invite it
   Trust others first, in bounded ways, before they have earned every dimension — it is how trust is built.
   The Trust Triangle
2. The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
   Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game framework distinguishes Self 1 — the critical, instructing voice that interferes with performance — from Self 2, the body’s natural learning intelligence. Performance improves not by trying harder but by reducing Self 1’s interference so Self 2 can perform. The model is widely applied in coaching, athletics, and business; controlled-trial evidence is limited but the underlying mechanisms align with research on choking, explicit monitoring, and attentional redirection.
3. The practice of living consciously
   Bring awareness to what you are doing and seeing, rather than acting on autopilot or avoidance.
   The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical
4. The Trust Equation, Made Practical
   The Trust Equation (Maister, Green, and Galford) holds that trustworthiness = (credibility + reliability + intimacy) ÷ self-orientation. The model is a practitioner framework rather than a rigorously tested theory, but it usefully names the levers — especially self-orientation, which is the single biggest trust-killer most leaders overlook.
5. Confidence from keeping promises to yourself
   Reliably showing up builds self-trust independent of how any session goes.
   Strength Training for Confidence
6. Replace critic monologue with compassionate self-talk
   Speak to yourself the way you would speak to a close friend in the same situation.
   Working With Your Inner Critic
7. Callus your mind through voluntary hard things
   Deliberately doing difficult things — beyond your current comfort — builds the mental callus that hard moments require.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
8. Develop your own compass for decisions
   Build a personal value system that guides decisions independently of social approval.
   Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical
9. Lower your guard to raise the intimacy score
   Sharing something real about yourself makes others feel safer sharing something real with you.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
10. Audit and reduce your self-orientation
    Self-orientation is the denominator: a small increase in it wipes out gains in all three numerator variables.
    The Trust Equation, Made Practical

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