Coaching practices for Five Elements of Well Being
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Five Elements of Well Being, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- On paper my life looks successful
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
- 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
- There’s this one heavy thing I keep stepping around
- I’m hitting every productivity target and somehow feeling emptier by the week
Practices that may help
- Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence. - Audit your life against PERMA
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical - 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 - Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
In Martin Seligman’s original randomized controlled trial, participants who wrote three good things and their causes each evening for one week reported significantly higher happiness and lower depression at one month and six months — making it one of the most replicated exercises in positive psychology. Effects are genuine but modest; the practice sustains benefits best when kept specific and causal rather than performed as a gratitude list. - Positive Psychology, Made Practical
Martin Seligman’s positive psychology studies what makes life worth living, organized around the PERMA model — Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Several of its signature interventions, including three good things, the gratitude visit, and using signature strengths, have genuine randomized-trial support for raising well-being and lowering depressive symptoms. - 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. - 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 - Include a happiness question — not as an outcome goal but as a signal
Add "Did I do my best to be happy today?" to the list — not as a target, but as a daily quality-of-life sensor.
The Morning Questions - Three good things (positive emotions pillar)
Write down three good things that happened today and why they happened.
Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Five Pillars Of Wellbeing
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Audit your life against PERMA
- How To Improve Well Being
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.
- How To Measure Well Being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
- Awe And Well Being Research
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.
- How To Increase Wellbeing
Prioritize relationships, autonomy, and meaning — the three factors most reliably linked to lasting wellbeing gains.
Invest in what research shows moves the set point
- Three Ps Seligman
Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence.
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