Coaching practices for Perma Audit
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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 keep these apps because I’m scared I’ll miss something important, but when I’m honest about what I actually got from all those hours this week, it’s almost nothing
- On paper my life looks fine and I can’t point to anything that’s wrong, but I have this nagging sense it isn’t actually going well
- I’m good at my job and on top of my commitments, and yet I’m quietly miserable
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 - Run a weekly platform value audit
Once a week, assess whether each platform you used is actually delivering value proportional to the time it received.
Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy - Periodic eudaimonia audit: are you actually flourishing?
Periodically evaluate your life against the conditions Aristotle thought were necessary for genuine flourishing — not just your feelings about it.
Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue - Apply the matrix at the role level, not just the task level
Audit which of your entire roles or commitments are Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4 — not just individual tasks.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
Self-Monitoring, Made Practical - Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - 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. - Analyze your log for patterns and surprises
After logging, find the two or three surprising facts — not the obvious ones.
The Time Audit - Create a feedback acknowledgment ritual to close each tracking cycle
A brief, consistent closing ritual after reviewing behavioral data anchors the feedback loop and prevents it from becoming pure surveillance.
Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
Related concerns
- Life Balance Audit
Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
- Jargon Audit
Go word by word through your explanation and mark every term a newcomer would not know.
Run a jargon audit on every key explanation
- Ought Self Audit
People systematically miscalibrate self-monitoring — periodic objective checks correct the drift.
Periodically compare self-ratings with objective data
- Subscription Audit
Once a week, assess whether each platform you used is actually delivering value proportional to the time it received.
Run a weekly platform value audit
- Want Should Audit
Laura Vanderkam argues that most people do not have a time shortage but a time-awareness problem: they underestimate how much discretionary time exists in 168 weekly hours. A time audit — tracking actual time use for a week — almost always reveals significant gaps between perceived and actual allocation, which is the foundation for intentional redesign. The method is straightforward; the hard part is using what you find.
- Well Being Assessment
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
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