Coaching practices for Ztd Leo Babauta

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

  • Every time I try to get organized I try to overhaul everything at once, and a week later the whole thing has collapsed because it was too much to keep up
  • I’m efficient now, blowing through my list every day, but I’ve started to feel hollow about it
  • My lists have gone stale and I’ve stopped trusting them, so I’m back to carrying everything in my head and dreading Monday
  • My systems and routines have grown so elaborate and tangled that just maintaining them drains me, and I can’t even tell anymore which parts actually matter and which I’ve bolted on out of habit
  • I lead by directing and correcting and stepping in to fix things, and my team has gone quiet and passive, waiting to be told

Practices that may help

  1. Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
    Zen To Done (ZTD) is Leo Babauta’s streamification of Getting Things Done — it keeps GTD’s capture and next-action habits while adding a minimalist philosophy: focus on one habit at a time, maintain a small set of most important tasks each day, and simplify rather than optimize. ZTD is a practitioner system grounded in habit-formation and attention research rather than a formally tested protocol.
  2. Build the capture habit before anything else
    Install one habit at a time — start with ubiquitous capture — before adding other ZTD practices.
    Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
  3. Align daily work with meaningful goals
    Ground your MITs and projects in goals that genuinely matter to you, not just what is urgent.
    Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
  4. Do a brief weekly review and planning session
    Each week, review what happened, clear the decks, and commit to next week’s MITs.
    Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
  5. Return to simplicity
    Strip unnecessary complexity from your life and actions — the uncarved block has all possibilities open.
    Wu Wei — the Practice of Effortless Action
  6. Leading from behind — the servant leader stance
    Influence others more through example, listening, and restraint than through assertion and command.
    The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical
  7. Simplify by reducing commitments
    Regularly eliminate projects, roles, and obligations that don’t align with your most important work.
    Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
  8. Don’t make gods into demons
    Don’t let spiritual practice become a source of pride, judgment, or superiority over others.
    Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training
  9. Trust the natural unfolding of things
    Stop micro-managing outcomes and allow processes to develop at their own pace.
    Wu Wei — the Practice of Effortless Action
  10. Find and follow the grain of the situation
    Before acting, read the natural structure of the situation and find the line of least friction.
    Wu Wei — the Practice of Effortless Action

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