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The Practice Ground | A Self-Improvement Podcast with Ken Li and Kari Watterson

The Practice Ground | A Self-Improvement Podcast with Ken Li and Kari Watterson

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Join confidence coach, Ken Li, and mindset and habits coach, Kari Watterson, for conversations that challenge how you think, encourage courageous experimentation, and inspire you to gather experiences that deepen your confidence—and your participation in your own life.

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  • Ep. 13 - Procrastination: Why It Makes Sense—and What Can Change (Part1)

    Ep. 13 - Procrastination: Why It Makes Sense—and What Can Change (Part1)
    Nov 6 2026
    How much energy are we spending trying to avoid spending energy?Procrastination doesn't just cost us the things we don't get done. It can consume enormous amounts of time, attention, and emotional energy as we worry, negotiate with ourselves, and struggle to take action.But what if we're not simply avoiding the task? What if we're trying to avoid how we think doing it will make us feel?Through the Self-Coaching Model, we can begin to recognize how our thoughts about a task create feelings of dread, frustration, or overwhelm—and how putting it off can offer temporary relief from those emotions.Seeing procrastination as a thinking and emotional regulation problem versus a time management problem can help us not only understand why we've been responding this way, but guide us to approach our behavior differently—and begin changing it.In this episode of The Practice Ground, confidence coach Ken Li and mindset and habits coach Kari Watterson explore procrastination through three complementary frameworks: the motivational triad, Brooke Castillo's Self-Coaching Model, and James Clear's four-part habit loop.Ken introduces the motivational triad—our tendencies to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy—and explores why pursuing what matters to us sometimes means deliberately moving beyond those tendencies.Kari examines the survival value of conserving energy and raises a different question: What if the work in front of us is precisely where we want to invest our energy, rather than preserve it?Understanding these tendencies can bring tremendous relief. Instead of interpreting procrastination as evidence that something is wrong with us, we can begin to recognize why we've been responding the way we have.And with that understanding comes an opportunity to begin considering how we want to respond differently.Ken explores how the Self-Coaching Model helps us recognize the thoughts and feelings influencing our behavior—and experiment with more empowering thought–feeling combinations that support the actions we want to take.Kari explores how the habit loop helps us understand avoidance as a learned, reinforced response—and how we can deliberately design and practice different responses that orient us toward doing the thing rather than remaining caught in cycles of self-evaluation.Together, these approaches invite us to move from self-judgment toward understanding, relief, choice, and the practice of behaviors that support the lives we want to live.Ken and Kari invite us to imagine what life might feel like if we could increasingly count on ourselves to engage with and follow through on the things we've been putting off.Ken imagines greater flow and enjoyment in the doing. Kari imagines movement, energy, and freedom -- for whatever else they want to experience in life.What you'll hear inside the episode:Why procrastination can consume so much energy even when we're not taking actionWhy avoiding a task may really be an attempt to avoid an uncomfortable emotionWhat the motivational triad reveals about avoidance—and why we may want to act beyond our immediate tendenciesHow understanding our behavior can bring relief, reduce self-judgment, and open up new choicesHow the Self-Coaching Model helps us explore more empowering thoughts and feelings that support the actions we want to takeHow the four-part habit loop explains why avoidance can become rewarding—and how to begin designing and practicing different responses*****Coming next week: Procrastination, Part 2Once we understand our procrastination patterns, then what?In Episode 14, Ken and Kari explore practical strategies for getting started, reducing friction, and making follow-through increasingly accessible and repeatable.Mentioned in this episodeSteven Pressfield: The War of Art — Understanding resistanceBrooke Castillo: The Self-Coaching Model and the motivational triad — Understanding thoughts, feelings, and behaviorJames Clear: Atomic Habits — Cue, craving, response, rewardGreg McKeown: Essentialism — Including the question, What's important now?Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit — Cue, routine, rewardDavid Allen: Getting Things Done — Clarifying and organizing workSee the Self Coaching Model in actionVideo | Kari Watterson & Ken Li | The Self Coaching Model: How it Works----Ken Li is a confidence coach. Connect with Ken on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/kenchangkuoli/), where he regularly shares mindset tools, resources, and strategies to help professionals who second-guess themselves feel as confident inside as they look.Kari Watterson is a mindset and habits coach. Connect with Kari on Instagram (@theadhdhabittrainer), where she shares her ongoing series, The Habit Training Diaries, or visit KariWatterson.com.
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    54 min
  • Ep. 12 - Are You Taking Your Capabilities Seriously?

    Ep. 12 - Are You Taking Your Capabilities Seriously?
    Oct 30 2026
    What if one of the most satisfying ways to live is to keep discovering what you're capable of—and what you can create with others?From the time we're born, we're learning to do things we couldn't do before. We develop new abilities, build on what we've learned, and gradually expand what's possible for us.What if we approached the rest of our lives with that same sense of curiosity and possibility?In this episode of The Practice Ground, Ken and Kari explore Capableism, a philosophy developed by Dan Sullivan, co-founder of Strategic Coach, based on the idea that human beings have a natural desire to grow, develop, and expand their capabilities.At the heart of Capableism are two powerful multiplier effects: developing our own capabilities and combining them with other people's capabilities to create something new.Kari shares how Sullivan's invitation to take your capabilities seriously changed the questions she began asking about her life. Ken explores how recognizing our strengths, developing them, and collaborating with others can give us a proactive way to create purpose and meaning through action.Together, they examine what Capableism offers beyond simply playing to your strengths, how to decide which capabilities are worth developing, and why we don't have to figure out how to do everything ourselves.They also look at their own collaboration on The Practice Ground—what each brings to the partnership, what they've created together, and the unexpected capabilities they're developing along the way.Discover how Capableism can become a daily orientation for directing your time, energy, and attention toward activities and relationships that energize you, build on what you've already developed, and expand what's possible ---not as another daily test of whether you're doing enough, but a compass for living and growing with greater intention.What you'll hear inside the episodeWhat Capableism means and why Sullivan sees the desire to develop our capabilities as a fundamental part of being humanHow developing and combining capabilities creates two powerful multiplier effectsWhy Capableism can offer a proactive source of purpose, meaning, and possibilityWhat Capableism adds to the familiar advice to play to your strengthsHow to identify your existing capabilities and decide which ones you'd like to developWhy internal capabilities like self-confidence, self-trust, and self-efficacy matter just as much as practical skillsHow Who Not How can change the way we approach challenges and opportunitiesWhat Ken and Kari have learned by combining their capabilities to create The Practice GroundHow Capableism applies to everyday life, including working within an organizationHow to begin taking your own capabilities seriouslyMentioned in this episodeArticle | Dan Sullivan | What Is Capableism and Why Is It So Important for Entrepreneurs?Book | Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy | Who Not HowBook | Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy | The Gap and The GainAssessment | Gallup | CliftonStrengthsArticle | Kari Watterson | Why Taking Your Capabilities Seriously Might Be the Missing Link to the Change You SeekPodcast | Kari Watterson | The End of the Day: A Mindset Podcast, Episode 83 — Do You Take Your Capabilities Seriously? If Not, Why? A Look Into Dan Sullivan's CapableismDownloadable Worksheet | Taking Your Capabilities Seriously—Reflection Exercise-----Ken Li is a confidence coach. Connect with Ken on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/kenchangkuoli/), where he regularly shares mindset tools, resources, and strategies to help professionals who second-guess themselves feel as confident inside as they look.Kari Watterson is a mindset and habits coach. Connect with Kari on Instagram (@theadhdhabittrainer), where she shares her ongoing series, The Habit Training Diaries, or visit KariWatterson.com.
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    57 min
  • Ep. 11 - Your Past Patterns Don't Have to Be Your Future Patterns with The Self Coaching Model with Kari Watterson

    Ep. 11 - Your Past Patterns Don't Have to Be Your Future Patterns with The Self Coaching Model with Kari Watterson
    Oct 23 2026
    What might become possible in your life if you could learn to respond differently to the things that have been holding you back?Maybe you've been putting something off, second-guessing yourself, avoiding a difficult conversation, or struggling to change a behavior you've repeated for years.You can see where you are. You can imagine where you'd like to be. But no matter how much you want things to be different, you keep finding yourself on the same side of a gap you can't seem to cross.And that can be painful. Especially when you've tried, perhaps many times, to change. You know what matters to you. You want to move forward. But when your efforts keep bringing you back to familiar patterns, it's easy to become discouraged—and begin doubting your ability to change at all.What if part of finding a way across that gap is learning to understand how you've been responding to life—and discovering that those familiar responses aren't your only options?In this solo episode of The Practice Ground, Kari introduces the Self Coaching Model, a practical framework created by Brooke Castillo, founder of The Life Coach School, for understanding how our thoughts, feelings, actions, and results are connected—and how those connections shape our experiences.The Model helps us slow down and examine how an experience unfolded: what happened, what we thought about it, how we felt, what we did, and what resulted.As we begin to recognize those connections, patterns that once seemed automatic or difficult to understand can become more visible.And when we can see how an experience unfolded, change can begin to feel less mysterious and less out of reach.But understanding is only the beginning.The Model doesn't change our lives for us. It helps us develop the awareness and skills to participate more deliberately in changing them.Through everyday examples and a step-by-step demonstration, Kari shows how we can use the Model to understand familiar patterns, recognize where we may have more choice, and begin experimenting with different responses.And as we practice, something else becomes possible: we can begin developing capabilities that extend far beyond the particular problem we're trying to solve.We can learn to face discouragement without automatically giving up. Navigate uncertainty without always retreating. Learn from unwanted results without turning them into verdicts about who we are.Each new response gives us another experience to learn from—and potentially new evidence about what we're capable of doing.Over time, we're not simply changing individual behaviors or solving individual problems. We're developing capabilities that can change how we experience ourselves, how we approach life's challenges, and what we believe is possible for our futures.What you'll hear inside the episode:why the same circumstances can lead to different experiences—and how our thinking contributes to those differenceshow the five parts of the Self Coaching Model—Circumstance, Thought, Feeling, Action, and Result (CTFAR)—help us understand how our experiences unfoldwhy separating what happened from what we're making it mean can help us recognize possibilities we might otherwise misshow familiar thoughts, feelings, and actions can reinforce patterns that keep us from moving toward what matters to uswhy becoming an observer of our own experience helps us recognize thoughts without automatically treating them as factshow an unintentional model helps us understand an existing pattern, while an intentional model helps us explore different responseswhy we don't necessarily have to wait until we feel differently before we begin acting differentlyhow experimenting with new responses can create new experiences—and new evidence about what we're capable of doingwhy how we experience ourselves while pursuing our goals matters alongside whether we achieve themhow practicing the Model can help us develop capabilities that extend beyond any one problem, goal, or circumstanceThe Self Coaching Model isn't simply a tool for understanding why we've responded the way we have.It's a skill we can develop and continue practicing throughout our lives—one that can help us become more capable of navigating challenges, pursuing what matters to us, and participating deliberately in creating the lives we want to live.Our past patterns may help explain how we've learned to respond to life. They don't have to determine what's possible for our future.Explore the Self Coaching Model from another perspectiveThis episode is a companion to Episode 10 — How to Coach Yourself Through Any Problem with The Self Coaching Model with Ken Li.Ken and Kari bring complementary perspectives and examples to the Model. Listen to both episodes to explore different ways you can begin understanding and applying this life-changing tool in your own life.See the Self Coaching Model in actionVideo | Kari Watterson & Ken Li | The Self Coaching Model: How it Works----Ken Li is a ...
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    27 min
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