Coaching practices for We Keep it P Doe Meaning

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• We used to have our own little language
• I tell my kid "good job" all day and it doesn’t seem to change anything
• The moment we start arguing, any sense that I actually like and respect this person evaporates
• I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
• We keep pulling everyone into a meeting to settle some tiny thing that could have been a one-line message anyone could object to

Practices that may help

1. Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement
   The Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycle is a four-step iterative method developed by W. Edwards Deming: form a hypothesis, run a small test, study what actually happened, then act on the lesson before cycling again. Originally industrial, it applies directly to personal skill-building: it replaces vague "try harder" with small, testable experiments and forces honest assessment of results.
2. Cultivating complicity: shared secret aliveness
   Build a private world of in-jokes, gestures, and references that only you two share.
   Mating in Captivity: Sustaining Desire in Long-Term Relationships
3. Use descriptive praise instead of generic approval
   Tell the child exactly what they did right so they know what to repeat.
   Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
4. Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block
   Pu (朴, "uncarved block") is a central image in Laozi’s Tao Te Ching representing a state of original simplicity — potential uncluttered by excess conditioning, opinion, and accumulated complexity. As a practice, pu means deliberately returning to essentials: stripping away unnecessary complexity in decisions, possessions, commitments, and inner speech to restore natural responsiveness.
5. Protect fondness actively during and after conflict
   Conflict is the test of PSO — deliberately hold the positive frame while the negative one is loudest.
   Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
6. Build meaning through contribution rather than achievement (meaning pillar)
   Orient your work toward what it does for others, not just what it earns you.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
7. The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It
   The protege effect is the finding that people learn material more deeply when they teach it — or even just prepare to teach it — than when they study it for themselves. Experiments support that expecting to teach, and then explaining to a real or stand-in learner, drives more organized, durable understanding, largely because teaching forces you to confront the gaps in your own knowledge.
8. GIVE: DBT’s Skill for Preserving Relationships During Difficult Conversations
   GIVE — Gentle, Interested, Validate, Easy manner — is a DBT interpersonal effectiveness skill developed by Marsha Linehan for keeping relationships intact during difficult exchanges. While DEAR MAN focuses on getting what you need, GIVE focuses on how you show up so the other person remains willing to engage with you over time.
9. Route low-stakes decisions to async channels instead of meetings
   Offload trivial decisions to a written channel where anyone can object within 24 hours — otherwise the decision is made.
   Parkinson’s Law of Triviality: Stop Bikeshedding
10. Invest meaning in shared symbols and objects
    Identify the objects, places, and phrases that carry meaning for your relationship.
    The Shared Meaning System

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