Coaching practices for Intentional Activities Wellbeing
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Intentional Activities Wellbeing, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I get so wrapped up in my own head and my own problems that I go days barely looking outside myself
- 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
- Plenty of what I do is pleasant enough but none of it feels like it matters, and that hollowness is wearing on me
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
- I can make myself do the easy little pick-me-ups, but they feel hollow and don’t really stick
Practices that may help
- Deliberate acts of kindness
Perform several intentional kind acts, ideally clustered, to lift your own well-being.
Positive Psychology, 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 - Meaningful engagement
Spend regular time doing something that generates both positive emotion and a sense of purpose.
Building Positive Emotions, 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 - Anchor activity to personal values
Choose pleasant activities that also connect to what genuinely matters to you, not just what is easy.
Pleasant Events Scheduling, 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 - Nourishing vs. depleting activities audit
Map your weekly activities into those that restore energy and those that drain it, then intentionally shift the balance.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical - 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. - Allocate part of your values budget to others
Prosocial spending — money spent on others — generates more lasting satisfaction per dollar than equivalent self-spending.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Ground transcendental future thinking in present action
If your motivation is legacy or meaning-based, translate it into a concrete this-week action.
Time Perspective Therapy
Related concerns
- Eudaimonic Wellbeing Activity
Choose pleasant activities that also connect to what genuinely matters to you, not just what is easy.
Anchor activity to personal values
- 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
- Purpose And Wellbeing
Prioritize relationships, autonomy, and meaning — the three factors most reliably linked to lasting wellbeing gains.
- Eudaimonic Wellbeing
Eudaimonia — often translated as "flourishing" or "the good life" — is Aristotle’s answer to what we ultimately aim at in living. It is not a feeling of pleasure but an active exercise of the soul in accordance with virtue over a complete life. The Nicomachean Ethics offers a precise system: character virtues are the mean between extremes, developed by practice, and exercised in genuinely social life. Most of Aristotle’s specific prescriptions align with contemporary wellbeing research on character, relationships, and meaningful activity.
- 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.
- 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.
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