What to Do When Feeling Unfulfilled? 10 Coaching Practices to Try
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Practices that may help
- Recognize and name existential vacuum when it appears
When you feel a pervasive boredom or emptiness that pleasure-seeking doesn’t fill, recognize it as a meaning problem, not a mood problem.
Logotherapy - Living close to the ground — contentment with enough
Cultivate contentment with what is sufficient rather than perpetually seeking more.
The Tao Te Ching, 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 - Find meaning through what you create or contribute
Locate meaning in the work or deed you give to the world, not only in what you get from it.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Made Practical - Meaningful engagement
Spend regular time doing something that generates both positive emotion and a sense of purpose.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical - Examining the desire before chasing it
Before pursuing something you want, ask whether the desire serves you or consumes you.
Santosha: The Practice of Contentment - Connect activities to values, not just pleasure
Select activities that align with what matters to you, not just what feels good right now.
Behavioral Activation: Acting Your Way Out of Low Mood - 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 - Spend time on activities that feel both meaningful and enjoyable
Activities that are both meaningful and enjoyable produce the highest time happiness — aim for the overlap.
Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes) - Audit your life against PERMA
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s this flat, hollow boredom that follows me everywhere, and I keep trying to fill it with my phone, food, more work, anything
- Every time I get the thing I was sure would finally make me feel like enough
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
- My work has started to feel like an empty grind of tasks I do for myself and my paycheck, and I’m hungry to feel that what I make or do actually matters to someone beyond me
- Plenty of what I do is pleasant enough but none of it feels like it matters, and that hollowness is wearing on me
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