Coaching practices for Seligman S Perma Model on a Budget

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  • On paper my life looks successful
  • Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
  • I’m about to drop a chunk of money on something I’m sure will make me happy, but I’m only picturing that one purchase
  • I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
  • I don’t want to lie to myself with forced positivity

Practices that may help

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Audit your life against PERMA
    Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  4. 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
  5. Apply the "value per dollar" test to major purchases
    Before a large purchase, ask how much wellbeing per dollar this generates relative to alternatives at the same cost.
    Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
  6. Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
    Learned optimism, from Martin Seligman’s research program, teaches you to identify and dispute the pessimistic explanations you generate automatically after setbacks — using his ABCDE model (Adversity, Belief, Consequence, Disputation, Energization). Clinical and observational research links shifting from pessimistic to flexible explanatory style to reduced depression risk and better persistence; effects are real but modest, and the goal is accuracy, not forced positivity.
  7. 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
  8. Calibrate toward accuracy, not positivity
    The target is a realistic, flexible explanatory style — not Pollyannaish optimism.
    Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
  9. Satisfice: set a good-enough threshold and stop searching when you hit it
    Optimize for "good enough" rather than "best possible" — the search cost often exceeds the gain.
    Simple Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer’s Case for Fast and Frugal Thinking
  10. 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

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