Coaching practices for When It's Just for Me I Cut Corners and Let Things Slide but I Do My Best Work When I Remember Other People Are Leaning on the Same Fabric I Am I Want My Choices to Carry That Weight That What I Half Ass Quietly Weakens the Whole Not Just Me
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- When it’s just for me I cut corners and let things slide, but I do my best work when I remember other people are leaning on the same fabric I am
- I extend everyone else this generosity, but when I mess up I go straight to "I’m lazy, I’m a failure, this is just who I am"
- I run myself into the ground taking care of everyone else and I’m always the last person on my own list
- I spread myself thin trying to keep up with everyone, and I end most weeks drained
- I’m brutal on myself the second I slip up
Practices that may help
- Use mutual dependence as a motivation to act well
Remember that others depend on the same fabric you do — and act in ways that strengthen it.
Sympatheia — the Stoic Practice of Universal Interconnection - Apply the razor to yourself
Extend to your own past actions the same charitable interpretation you give others.
Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain - Fierce provision: identify and meet your own needs
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Apply 80/20 to relationships and energy sources
Identify which relationships energize and catalyze your best work, and invest in them disproportionately.
The Pareto Principle: 80/20 for Personal Productivity - Extend the same generosity inward
The charitable read is for your own behavior too — and refusing it for yourself fuels harshness toward others.
Generous Interpretation - Less but better
Channel your effort into a few vital things done excellently rather than many done adequately.
Essentialism, Made Practical - Apply Parkinson’s Law — compress deadlines to compress work
Work expands to fill available time, so deliberately constraining time forces prioritization.
Lifestyle Design, Made Practical - Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships - Follow through on micro-commitments
Always do the small thing you said you’d do — weak ties live or die on reliability.
The Strength of Weak Ties - Treat your creative work as the highest-priority obligation
Do the most important creative work first, before any obligation that feels more pressing.
The War of Art, Made Practical
Related concerns
- When Fast Skill Be Fair To Yourself
Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
- Fair To Yourself
Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
- Living Others Expectations
Identify the places where your choices reflect others’ expectations rather than your own values.
Audit whether you are living your life or someone else’s
- When Give And Take Identify Otherish Giving
Help others in ways that also serve your own goals and interests.
Be otherish, not selfless
- When Naive Realism Attributional Charity
When someone acts in a way that seems wrong, first generate a situational explanation before a dispositional one.
Default to attributional charity for others’ behavior
- When Self Forgiveness Procrastination Extend Compassion To Self
Ask what you would say to a capable friend who had delayed on the same task — then say that.
Extend the compassion you would give a friend to yourself
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