Coaching für die Herausforderungen, die Menschen wirklich mitbringen (page 113)

Cognitive Defusion (ACT), Made Practical · Defusion from Anxious Thoughts · Defuse from the thoughts that rule your behavior + 7 more

Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression · Identify the cognitive distortion at work · Spotting cognitive distortions + 7 more

Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See · Actively seek disconfirming evidence · Structure the analysis before searching for evidence + 7 more

Connect before you correct · One-minute reprimands: immediate, specific, behavior-not-person · Prioritize items you were confidently wrong about + 7 more

Consistency over intensity · Use conversational pace to build exercise tolerance safely · Structure zone 2 sessions for consistency, not motivation + 7 more

Anchor your wake time, not just your bedtime · Use consistent timing as the primary Process C anchor · Keep a consistent sleep–wake schedule + 7 more

Why Constraints Boost Creativity · Deliberate Constraints, Made Practical · Tune to the inverted-U sweet spot + 7 more

Practice the same skill in different physical and social contexts · Integrate across modalities with narrative or story · Situated practice in authentic contexts + 7 more

Capture context before every forced switch · Context Switching Cost: Why Task Switching Wrecks Focus · Track your actual switch-cost pattern for one week + 7 more

Actively connect ideas across projects and topics · Build a deliberately broad input diet · Intentional field-crossing + 7 more

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical · DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical · Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical + 7 more

DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship · Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical · DEAR MAN: DBT’s Skill for Asking for What You Want Effectively + 7 more

DEAR MAN: DBT’s Skill for Asking for What You Want Effectively · DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship · Balance FAST with DEAR MAN when the relationship and the goal are both at stake + 7 more

Defer judgment during ideation · Ideate — generate options before judging · Green hat: generate new ideas and creative possibilities + 7 more

Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice · Build sharper mental representations · Practice with full, undivided focus + 7 more

Desirable Difficulties: When Harder Means Better Learning · Tune the difficulty to your current level · Desirable difficulty calibration + 7 more

Work at progressively subtler tension levels · Edmund Jacobson’s Progressive Relaxation, Made Practical · Tension-release contrast (the core tense-and-release cycle) + 7 more

The Digital Declutter, Made Practical · Define which technologies are "optional" before you begin · Conduct a 30-day digital declutter + 7 more

Contrast training · High-variability exposure · Rapid classification trials + 7 more

Effortlessness (the “no concentration” principle) · Right effort — the middle way between straining and slack · Shikantaza — "just sitting" in the Soto Zen tradition + 7 more

Elaborate new information with examples, images, and stories · Elaborative Interrogation: Ask "Why Is This True?" · Extract a transferable principle, not just a description + 7 more

Situation selection · Distinguish suppression from reappraisal in the moment · Recognize the cost of suppression + 7 more

Actively watch for escalation of commitment · Exit obligations gracefully and early · Schedule commitment renewal to prevent drift + 7 more

Experiment without attachment to outcome · Defer all judgment during ideation · Bias toward action over deliberation + 7 more

Avoid bright overhead light in the 2 hours before bed · Dim lights for the 60 minutes before bed · View sunset light to buffer against evening bright-light damage + 7 more

Use multiple varied examples to map the concept’s true shape · Study multiple varied examples of the same principle before generalizing · Generate your own example after learning a concept + 7 more

Spend on experiences rather than possessions · Invest in experiences rather than possessions · Give experiences, not objects + 7 more

The discipline of action · Act with the reserve clause · Add the reserve clause: "fate permitting" + 7 more

The Feynman Technique, Step by Step · Run the loop until it is smooth · Teach it to a real person + 7 more

Keep a consistent sleep–wake schedule · Anchor a stable wake time · Keep a strict, consistent wake time + 7 more

Negotiate from abundance, not scarcity · Reject the fixed-pie assumption · Map interests for both sides before generating solutions + 7 more

Practice flexible optimism, not blind optimism · Calibrate toward accuracy, not positivity · Optimism Training: Building Realistic, Flexible Optimism + 7 more

Flow: Engineering the State of Total Absorption · Flow Triggers, Made Practical · Protect the ramp-up time + 7 more

The Loss Frame: How Framing Shapes Decisions · Choose gain or loss framing deliberately · Set the reference point before you introduce the loss + 7 more

The Generation Effect: Why Making It Yourself Makes It Stick · Generate your own examples or explanations before studying provided ones · Generativity: investing in what outlasts you + 7 more

Build a three-level goal hierarchy · Organize effort under one top-level goal · Review your goal hierarchy to ensure lower goals serve higher ones + 7 more

Task Batching: Grouping Similar Work to Cut Switching Costs · Establish an explicit delegation protocol for Q3 tasks · Match the task to the person + 7 more

Gratitude Journaling, Done Well · Write gratitude entries with specificity, not generality · Write one brief gratitude note per week to a real person + 7 more

Embodied Cognition: How Your Body Shapes Your Thinking · Use a physical tactile anchor · Map a new domain onto a familiar bodily one + 7 more

Give yourself explicit permission to spend guilt-free on your priorities · Make spending on top priorities guilt-free by design · Protect the 30% wants budget as a deliberate allocation + 7 more

Gratitude for the ordinary as a beginner’s-mind restoration · Recognize when you’re on the hedonic treadmill · Mental subtraction + 7 more

Negative Visualization for Gratitude: The Stoic Path to Appreciation · Mental subtraction of a positive event · Gratitude for the ordinary as a beginner’s-mind restoration + 7 more

Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect · Generate the counterfactual outcome · Log probability estimates before the outcome + 7 more

Recognition-Primed Decision Making · Expert-explanation comparison · Protect expert intuitive response from rule-reversion under pressure + 7 more

Calibrate practice difficulty so it is challenging but not overwhelming · Stop judging learning by today’s performance · Locate your growth edge before each session + 7 more

Keep the nap to 10–20 minutes · The power nap (10–20 minutes) · Choose nap length by sleep stage goal + 7 more

Define "enough" before you need it · Define your number for "enough" · Define your own "enough" proactively + 7 more

Assert your request or refusal directly and specifically · Reinforce by explaining the benefit to the other person · Make requests specific, present-tense, and doable + 7 more

Include acts of kindness toward yourself · Self-kindness over self-judgment · Loving-kindness toward yourself + 7 more

Make repair attempts early and accept them graciously · Make and accept repair attempts · Label emotions during conflict to reduce escalation + 7 more

Grounding Techniques for Acute Distress · Ground and orient to the present · The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique + 7 more

Use weekend recovery sleep — but limit the overshoot · Sleep Debt and Social Jetlag: Recovery Strategies · Manage caffeine to offset debt without deepening it + 7 more

Curate your comparison pool deliberately · Switch to temporal self-comparison · The Comparison Trap + 7 more

Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End · Make your future self vivid to reduce psychological distance · Name your present bias before you buy + 7 more

If–Then Planning, Made Practical · Combine mental contrasting with an if–then plan (MCII) · Plan for obstacles with coping plans + 7 more

If–Then Planning, Made Practical · Combine mental contrasting with an if–then plan (MCII) · Plan for obstacles with coping plans + 7 more

Imaginal exposure for difficult-to-access fears · Understand imaginal exposure: revisiting the traumatic memory deliberately · In-vivo graded exposure: confront the real situation step by step + 7 more

Identify compatible interests for joint gain · Trade across issues where each side has different priorities · Trade across differing priorities + 7 more

Practice intellectual humility: "I might be wrong" · Practice intellectual humility as a spiritual discipline · Practice structured humility + 7 more

Practice intentional technology use — pause before opening any device · Clarify what you actually want your attention for · Set explicit values-based rules for each technology you keep + 7 more

Inversion: Solve Problems Backward · Reverse and Rearrange · Use inversion as the first model in every problem + 7 more

Dim lights for the 60 minutes before bed · Dim light in the evening · Avoid bright overhead light in the 2 hours before bed + 7 more

Include acts of kindness toward yourself · Loving-kindness toward yourself · Send yourself the same loving wishes you send others + 7 more

Mastery Experiences · Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance · Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization + 7 more

Schedule unstructured mind-wandering time · Practice observing where your mind wanders without redirecting it · Use a single, undirected object-gaze to invite daydreaming + 7 more

Attend to moral beauty as an everyday awe source · Seek moral beauty as a source of awe · Sharing awe with others + 7 more

Get outdoor light into your eyes within 30–60 minutes of waking · Morning Light Anchoring · View sunset light to buffer against evening bright-light damage + 7 more

Design your environment to supply safety cues · Map your personal safety and threat cues · Environment Design for Behavior Change + 7 more

Use a strategic nap to service acute sleep debt · Track and repay sleep debt intentionally · Use strategic naps to partially service acute sleep debt + 7 more

Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical · Advanced noting — noting the act of noting itself · Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space + 7 more

Nudge Theory, Made Practical · Use social norm messages to shift behavior · Make the right cue salient at the decision moment + 7 more

Adopt a strict single-tasking protocol · Do one thing at a time with full focus · The one-task rule + 7 more

Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical · Choiceless awareness — resting without an object · Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space + 7 more

Opportunity Cost Thinking: What You Give Up When You Choose · Always name the specific thing you are giving up · Distinguish sunk costs from future opportunity costs + 7 more

Define the result before listing tasks · Plan for obstacles with coping plans · Action Planning + 7 more

The Outside View · Invoke the outside view before committing to any significant plan · Ask what a specific other person would do + 7 more

Choice Overload, Made Practical · Limit the option set deliberately · Reduce the number of options to increase follow-through + 7 more

Paced breathing: make the exhale longer than the inhale · Understand why exhale-dominance is the active ingredient · Engage the vagal brake with a slow, extended exhale + 7 more

Use it as a pause before a difficult response · Wait before reacting · Practice Self-leadership in reactive moments + 7 more

Expand the IZOF profile to include positive and negative emotions · Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical · Meaningful engagement + 7 more

The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed · Memento mori as the ultimate premeditation · Run a premortem before committing + 7 more

Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice · Practice probabilistic calibration by tracking your predictions · Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use + 7 more

Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally · Enumerate scenarios and their probabilities before deciding · Use reference classes to ground personal estimates in base rates + 7 more

Problem Reframing: Solving the Right Problem First · Generate a balanced alternative · Cognitive Reframing, Made Practical + 7 more

Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance · Process Goals, Made Practical · Understand the three-goal hierarchy: outcome, performance, process + 7 more

Manage the learner’s frustration during difficulty · Tell desirable difficulty from plain obstacle · Productive Failure: How Struggling First Makes Instruction More Effective + 7 more

Separate solvable worries from unsolvable ones · Productive Problem-Solving vs. Worry · Distinguish actionable from non-actionable worries + 7 more

Decompose distal goals into proximal action plans · Stack proximal milestones beneath a stretch target · Make the endpoint concrete and countable + 7 more

Name the emotion in plain words · Name it to tame it (affect labeling) · Label what you sense (affect labeling) + 7 more

Working with restlessness-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca) · Balance torpor and agitation · Use a comfortable, sustainable position + 7 more

Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point · Escalate the amount gradually with income · Automate savings and investments before the money hits checking + 7 more

Self-as-Context (Observing Self), Made Practical · Track self-stability over time · Self-as-context (the observing self) + 7 more

The Self-Compassion Break · The self-compassion break · Recognize backdraft — the pain that arises when kindness first lands + 7 more

Cultivate Self through directed inner compassion · Self-Compassion, Made Practical · The self-compassion break + 7 more

Use credible verbal persuasion to raise efficacy in the short term · Build self-efficacy through mastery experiences · Mastery Experiences + 7 more

Separate the person from the problem · Break apart perceptual chunks that may be blocking you · Fight the problem, not each other + 7 more

Sleep Restriction Therapy · Set a restricted sleep window equal to your actual sleep time · Expand the sleep window by fifteen minutes when efficiency improves + 7 more

Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained · Allow the body to complete its response · Allow facilitator bodywork during intense physical activation + 7 more

Minimize attention residue between tasks · Attention Residue: Why Switching Tasks Costs More Than You Think · Eliminate split-attention effects + 7 more

Stimulus Control for Sleep · Apply stimulus control to the sleep environment · Stimulus Control, Made Practical + 7 more