Coaching practices for Every So Often We Get it Right I Reach for Them and They Actually Meet Me and it Feels So Good but Then it Just Slides by and We're Back to Normal and I Want Those Good Moments to Actually Count for Something Instead of Evaporating

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  • Every so often we get it right
  • A good moment is right here in front of me and I’m already half onto the next thing
  • Good moments rush past me before I’ve even taken them in
  • The good moments slide right past me
  • The good moments slip past me — a meal, my kid at this age, a season of life — and I only really feel them once they’re gone.

Practices that may help

  1. Celebrate and reinforce moments of secure connection
    When you get it right -- when you reach and are met -- name it and savour it.
    Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love
  2. Savoring the present moment
    When something good is happening, deliberately slow down and soak in the sensory detail.
    Savoring: Getting More From the Good
  3. Savoring positive experiences
    Deliberately prolong and deepen good moments instead of letting them slip past.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  4. The impermanence gratitude turn
    Use the awareness that pleasant things are temporary to intensify genuine appreciation for them while they are here.
    Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence
  5. Impermanence awareness practice
    Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
    Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection
  6. Integrate what peak experiences reveal
    Write immediately after a peak experience to preserve and act on the clarity it gave you.
    Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization
  7. The last-time awareness practice
    Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
    Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
  8. Revisit positive memories to relive them deliberately
    Spend time replaying a genuinely good memory in detail — retrospective savoring extends the well-being benefit long after the event.
    Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
  9. Make capitalization a habit
    Treat your partner’s good news as a recurring opportunity to build the relationship.
    Active-Constructive Responding, Made Practical
  10. Reminiscence and savoring memories
    Deliberately revisit good memories — with cues — to re-experience the positive feeling.
    Savoring: Getting More From the Good

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