Coaching practices for Unglamorous Fundamentals Performance

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• I notice I only really put in the effort when someone’s watching or there’s credit in it, and the boring fundamentals slide
• I keep grinding harder at the thing I’m already good at and hitting the same wall, and I’m starting to suspect what’s really holding me back isn’t effort at all
• I keep getting frustrated that people aren’t hitting the bar
• I look at the people a level above me in my field and assume they have some talent I just don’t have, so I never really start
• In the moment my practice goes smooth and I walk away feeling like I’ve got it nailed

Practices that may help

1. Do the unsexy work no one else sees
   Consistent private effort on unglamorous fundamentals separates actual performance from performance of performance.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
2. Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
   Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
   The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
3. Agree in advance on what good performance looks like
   Performance conversations go badly because the standard was never made explicit — the reprimand is the first time it is stated.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
4. Close the gap between where you are and the next level through daily invisible work
   The distance between average and above-average is usually many small daily disciplines, not one large talent gap.
   The Slight Edge: Jeff Olson’s Philosophy of Consistent Small Actions
5. Stop judging learning by today’s performance
   How well you do during practice is a bad predictor of how much you will keep.
   Desirable Difficulties: When Harder Means Better Learning
6. Audit your life against PERMA
   Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
7. Sustain effortful practice over the long haul
   Make deliberate practice repeatable across years, not heroic for a week.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
8. Establish transactional reliability before adding transformational layers
   Clear expectations, fair consequences, and reliable follow-through must come before vision and inspiration.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
9. Connect performance to purpose to sustain engagement under adversity
   Ground high-demand performance in a clear "why" that is stable when conditions are worst.
   The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
10. Make core values operational, not decorative
    Use core values in hiring, recognition, and decision-making — not just on the website.
    The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus

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