Coaching practices for Perma Profiler

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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
  • I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
  • On paper my life looks successful
  • My whole sense of whether I’m doing well rides on outcomes I don’t fully control, so when the results are slow or disappointing I feel like I’m getting nowhere
  • Some days I’m unstoppable and other days I’m flat for no reason I can name, and I have no idea what was actually different

Practices that may help

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. Build meaning through contribution rather than achievement (meaning pillar)
    Orient your work toward what it does for others, not just what it earns you.
    Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
  4. Audit your life against PERMA
    Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  5. Track mastery progress, not just outcomes (accomplishment pillar)
    Measure your growth in capability over time, not only whether you hit your targets.
    Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
  6. Map your personal Ideal Performance State
    Identify the exact mental, emotional, and physical conditions under which you perform at your best.
    The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
  7. Take a validated Big Five measure
    Use a psychometrically validated instrument — not a viral quiz — to get a reliable trait profile.
    The Big Five Personality Model
  8. 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.
  9. Peak experience analysis
    Study your life-line high points for the values and conditions they share — they reveal what fully alive looks like for you.
    The Life Line Exercise
  10. Spot and name character strengths in others
    Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical

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