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Social
Open Body Language
While listening: eye contact, slight forward lean, open hands, no phone.
Leadership
Town-Hall Q&A Preparation Technique
Before any open forum, write the 10 hardest expected questions and answer them in writing — never improvise live.
Parenting
The Daily Open Question
Replace "how was school?" with a daily-varying open question that invites a story not "fine."
Professional
2-Way vs 1-Way Door
Classify decision: reversible (2-way door) or not (1-way)? Required speed differs.
Administrative
2-Way Door vs 1-Way Door Sort
Two-way-door decisions move fast with no meetings; one-way-door demands scrutiny.
Psychological
Open-Eye Meditation
No need to close eyes — meditation in life as is.
Social
Fogging
When unjustly criticized, agree partially vs confront: "true I was late".
Administrative
Five Whys for Every Recurring Problem
Don't treat symptoms. Ask why five times to reach the root cause.
Psychological
Reattribution
If error occurred, 100% your fault? Usually no. Recalibrate share.
Parenting
Consent and Healthy Relationships Talk
Talk about consent and respect in relationships before your teen needs the information, not after a crisis.
Professional
GTD Weekly Review
A 60-minute weekly session that empties every open loop from your mind and resets your compass for next week.
Administrative
Fishbone: Cause-Effect Diagram
Draw a "fish skeleton" of the problem: head = issue, bones = cause categories.
Psychological
Wind-Down Tea Ritual
Chamomile/sage tea 1 hr before bed — ritual tells body "sleep time".
Professional
Pre-Mortem
Before executing decision, imagine it failed in a year, enumerate most likely failure causes.
Professional
360 Self-Audit
Each quarter, ask 6 people around you the same 3 open questions about your performance.
Administrative
Pre-Mortem Protocol
Imagine the project failed entirely a year from now; list 7 plausible reasons before starting.
Administrative
Post-Incident Review
After major incident: full review — timeline, causes, improvements, no blame.
Leadership
Decision Classification: Reversible?
Per decision: is it a two-way door (reversible) or one-way door?
Leadership
Reversible vs Irreversible Doors
Distinguish decisions you can reverse cheaply from those you can't — then treat them differently.
Psychological
Positive Resource Anchoring
Link a specific touch (thumb press) to strength memory — invoke in weakness.
Psychological
Mountain Meditation
Imagine self as mountain — storms pass, you remain.
Professional
Calibrated Questions
Replace direct demands with a "how" or "what" question so the other side feels in control while solving your problem.
Professional
Tomorrow Tonight
Before sleep, plan tomorrow — saves morning willpower.
Professional
Distraction Log
Log: what distracted, when, why — discover patterns.
Professional
Calibrated Questions (Voss)
Ask with "how" and "what" not "why" — opponent solves your problem.
Social
FORD Topics for First Conversations
Use Family-Occupation-Recreation-Dreams as four safe entry doors for any new conversation.
Social
Body Anchor Before Entering
Before entering, press thumb on index with deep inhale — a ready calm anchor.
Administrative
Lewin Model: Unfreeze-Move-Refreeze
Three core phases of any change: unfreeze status quo, move it, refreeze the new state.
Administrative
Policy on One Page
Each policy: title, scope, 5 rules, exceptions, review date — one page only.
Administrative
War Room Stand-up
During crisis: hourly stand-up — status, blockers, next. No long meetings.
Leadership
70% Information Decision Rule (Bezos)
Don't wait for 90% information; major decisions are made at 70% — beyond that is costly delay.
Leadership
GROW Model for Coaching Conversations
A 30-min conversation with a report: Goal, Reality, Options, Will — to grow their thinking instead of giving answers.
Leadership
Granting Full Ownership
Instead of delegating "a task", delegate "an outcome". Report decides the how themselves.
Leadership
Ethical Decision Matrix
Before ethically murky decision, evaluate on 4 axes: legal/ethical/values/reputation.
Parenting
Tell Me More
Replace investigative "why?" questions with the invitation "tell me more" to open the story.
Parenting
The Seven-Second Silence
After every question to your child, wait full 7 seconds before talking — silence extracts depth.
Parenting
Unstructured Free Play
Protect one hour daily for play with no direction, no educational agenda, no camera.
Parenting
Free Play Priority
Protect one hour daily of unstructured free play — it's your child's most important school.
Parenting
Twenty-Minute Walking Talks
Walking side-by-side opens conversations face-to-face never does.
Digital & AI
90-Minute Deep Work Block
Block 90 daily min for deep work with no phone, email, or colleagues — with a fixed startup ritual.
Digital & AI
Attention-Residue Recovery
After every task-switch, write 2 sentences about previous task before starting new. Clears "residue".
Digital & AI
Browser Tab Limits
Max 5 browser tabs. Every 6+ = close or save to read-later.
Digital & AI
Dinner-Table Phone Basket
Basket near table. Every phone in pre-first-bite. First to touch washes dishes.
Social
The Graceful Exit
Close a conversation with appreciation + reason + bridge to next, in three sentences.
Psychological
Inner Citadel
Within you is an unconquerable citadel — every event only knocks at its door.
Psychological
Willing Hands
Open hands, palms up — body signal for acceptance.
Professional
Pre-Mortem Analysis
Imagine your decision failed a year from now and write the reasons today — preventing 70% of catastrophes.
Social
SOLER Listening Posture
Use five body cues (Square, Open, Lean, Eye contact, Relaxed) to make your speaker feel safe.
Social
The Generous Backstory
Invent at least three plausible reasons for a behavior that upset you, before you judge.
Social
Prep 1-on-1 With Manager
Prep your 1-on-1 with SBI + GROW: situation, behavior, impact, then open GROW questions.
Social
Powerful GROW Questions
Practice asking open GROW questions instead of giving advice in every mentoring meeting.
Administrative
One-Week Kaizen Event
Small team, one process, 5 full days for radical improvement — not "open project".
Administrative
Monthly Variance Analysis
Monthly: planned vs actual — focus on variances >5%, dig into causes.
Leadership
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Pre-Mortem: Imagining the Decision Failed
Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.
Leadership
Mini Pre-Mortem for Leaders
15 min before a big decision: imagine it failed a year later, list 5 likely causes with mitigations.
Leadership
Powerful-Question Bank Building
Collect 20 strong open questions fit for any coaching session, instead of improvising or repeating "how do you feel about that?" only.
Psychological
ABC Model Map
Event (A) → Belief (B) → Consequence (C): break the assumption that events cause emotions directly.
Psychological
Emotion Granularity
Instead of "I feel bad", classify: "frustrated", "disappointed", "exhausted".
Professional
Time Boxing
Reserve a fixed time box in your calendar for each task, so it finishes on time instead of stretching forever.
Professional
Precise Request Framing
Instead of "I want raise", say "I want 15% raise due to X and Y, effective Jan 1".