Coaching practices for Awe and Well Being When Starting Out

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

  • I’ve come far enough through my own version of this that I want to be the person I needed back then for someone just entering it
  • By the time I notice I’ve been running on edge all day, it’s already too late
  • There’s this one heavy thing I keep stepping around
  • I’ve finally accepted that chasing more stuff and more status isn’t making me durably happier, and now I want to pour my time and money into whatever actually does move the needle for good
  • On paper my life looks successful

Practices that may help

  1. Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
    Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences.
  2. Share your benefits with others who are facing similar adversity
    Once you have found genuine benefits, sharing them with others in similar situations extends both your benefit and theirs.
    Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical
  3. Begin the day with a brief Self-check
    Each morning, scan which parts are up and reconnect with Self before the day pulls you into reactivity.
    IFS Self Energy, Made Practical
  4. Identify the drag domain — the one pulling everything else down
    One chronically low domain often functions as a ceiling on satisfaction in all the others.
    The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
  5. Invest in what research shows moves the set point
    Prioritize relationships, autonomy, and meaning — the three factors most reliably linked to lasting wellbeing gains.
    The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical
  6. Audit your life against PERMA
    Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  7. Design awe walks that amplify the psychological return of outdoor movement
    Walking with intentional attention to vast, novel, or beautiful elements generates awe — which compounds the mood benefits of movement.
    Nature and Movement, Made Practical
  8. Practice wholehearted living
    Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  9. Name a specific, feasible wish
    Start WOOP with a wish that is genuinely meaningful to you and realistically achievable — not too easy, not out of reach.
    Mental Contrasting and WOOP
  10. Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
    Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
    Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical

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