Coaching practices for I Keep Assuming This Person Just Didn't Try Hard Enough and Pushing Them to Care More and Nothing Changes and I'm Starting to Wonder If I've Never Actually Asked What Got in Their Way Before Jumping to the Fix

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• I keep assuming this person just didn’t try hard enough and pushing them to care more, and nothing changes
• I keep blaming myself and vowing to just try harder, yet the same failure happens again and again no matter how much willpower I throw at it
• My answer to every failure is "I just need to try harder," but I already gave it everything I had and still came up short
• I’m completely unmotivated and I honestly can’t tell whether it’s that deep down I don’t believe I can pull this off, or that I just don’t care about it
• This conversation keeps circling back to whose fault the whole thing was, and we just relitigate the past over and over

Practices that may help

1. Explore before you prescribe: diagnose why the gap happened
   The solution to a missed commitment depends entirely on what caused the miss — and you usually don’t know until you ask.
   Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter
2. Distinguish system causes from individual causes in the analysis
   Most failures have system causes and individual causes; fixing only the individual leaves the system to produce the same result again.
   After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning
3. Calibrate effort attributions carefully
   Attribute failure to insufficient effort only when more effort was genuinely the variable — not as a substitute for honest strategy analysis.
   Attributional Retraining, Made Practical
4. Diagnose whether you are stuck on expectancy or value
   Before trying to motivate yourself, identify which of the two factors is actually low.
   Expectancy-Value Theory: Why You Try (or Don’t)
5. Ask "What do we need to do to move forward?"
   Forward-facing questions shift energy from arguing about the past to solving for the future.
   Calibrated Questions, Made Practical
6. Catch the attribution error
   Notice when you’re explaining someone’s behavior by their character instead of their situation.
   Generous Interpretation
7. Diagnose before you prescribe with COM-B
   Before picking a strategy, identify which of Capability, Opportunity, or Motivation is the bottleneck.
   The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
8. Take a deliberate incubation break
   When stuck, stop working the problem and let time and an unrelated activity do the work.
   Incubation: Why Stepping Away Solves Problems
9. Distinguish technical problems from adaptive challenges
   Separate problems you can solve with existing expertise from those requiring you to change.
   Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical
10. Accept imperfect repair attempts
    Reject a clumsy repair attempt and you teach your partner to stop trying.
    Repair Attempts: Gottman's Key to Surviving Conflict in Relationships

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