Coaching practices for How to Measure Well Being
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
- On paper my life looks successful
- I’m hitting every productivity target and somehow feeling emptier by the week
- My life looks fine until I open my phone and see what everyone else has, and then it instantly feels not enough
- When I take stock of my life I catch myself rounding everything up
Practices that may help
- 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 - Audit your life against PERMA
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Positive Psychology, 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 - Audit your comparison set
Identify who and what you’re comparing yourself to — and whether that comparison is serving you.
The Mindset of Enough: Contentment Without Complacency - 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. - Rate each life domain with brutal honesty, not aspiration
The wheel’s value is proportional to the honesty of your ratings — aspirational scores produce a pleasant picture that changes nothing.
The Wheel of Life, 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 - Interrupting upward social comparison
Notice when comparison is generating discontent and shift attention to your own trajectory.
Santosha: The Practice of Contentment - 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 - Track time affluence as a metric, not just productivity
Measuring how time-rich you feel — not just output — changes what you optimise for.
Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence
Related concerns
- Five Elements Of Well Being
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.
- 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.
- Life Balance Vs Life Satisfaction
The Wheel of Life is a coaching tool that maps satisfaction across multiple life domains (career, health, relationships, finances, and others) as a visual "wheel" to show where life is well-rounded and where it is flat. It is widely used in coaching but lacks independent clinical trial evidence; its value is as a structured self-awareness and conversation-starter tool rather than a therapeutic intervention.
- Goal Disengagement Wellbeing
Treat disengagement between performances as a skill to develop, not an indulgence to manage.
Oscillate deliberately between full engagement and full recovery
- Life Satisfaction Wheel
The Wheel of Life is a coaching tool that maps satisfaction across multiple life domains (career, health, relationships, finances, and others) as a visual "wheel" to show where life is well-rounded and where it is flat. It is widely used in coaching but lacks independent clinical trial evidence; its value is as a structured self-awareness and conversation-starter tool rather than a therapeutic intervention.
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