Coaching practices for Work Engagement Positive Psychology
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Plenty of what I do is pleasant enough but none of it feels like it matters, and that hollowness is wearing on me
- I treat my own bad moods as background static to just power through, and then I’m baffled when my focus and drive keep collapsing
- On paper my life looks successful
- This one task in front of me feels like dead weight, pure drudgery I have to force myself through
- I’ve gotten ruthlessly efficient at all of it and I’m emptier than ever
Practices that may help
- 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. - The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
Loehr and Schwartz argue that performance depends on managing energy, not time: you have physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy, and the key is oscillating between full engagement and real recovery rather than pushing linearly. The four-dimensions model is a practitioner framework, but its building blocks — recovery, breaks, sleep, exercise, and meaning — each have their own real support. - Meaningful engagement
Spend regular time doing something that generates both positive emotion and a sense of purpose.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical - Manage emotional energy
Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical - Audit your life against PERMA
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - Connect daily tasks to purpose to sustain spiritual energy
Schwartz and Loehr’s "spiritual" energy is simply the motivational fuel of purpose — work feels effortful without it and effortless with it.
Energy Management, Not Time Management - 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. - Connect to purpose (spiritual energy)
Anchor effort to values and meaning, the deepest and most renewable source of drive.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical - Cultivate commitment by finding meaningful stakes in your current work
Hardiness begins with engaging fully with what you are doing rather than staying at arm’s length from it — even difficult work.
Psychological Hardiness, Made Practical - Use your signature strengths in a new way
Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Full Engagement Framework
Loehr and Schwartz argue that performance depends on managing energy, not time: you have physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy, and the key is oscillating between full engagement and real recovery rather than pushing linearly. The four-dimensions model is a practitioner framework, but its building blocks — recovery, breaks, sleep, exercise, and meaning — each have their own real support.
- Seligman S Perma Model When Burned Out
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.
- The Power Of Full Engagement As A Caregiver
Loehr and Schwartz argue that performance depends on managing energy, not time: you have physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy, and the key is oscillating between full engagement and real recovery rather than pushing linearly. The four-dimensions model is a practitioner framework, but its building blocks — recovery, breaks, sleep, exercise, and meaning — each have their own real support.
- Awe And Well Being Research
Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences.
- Energy Foundation
Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
- Five Elements Of Well Being
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.
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