PERMA

                                          PERMA

At the Summit Consulting Group’s Million Dollar Convention in Atlanta where I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Martin Seligman author of Authentic Happiness and Learned Optimism discuss The Practice of Positive Psychology.

Dr. Seligman discussed the five elements of well being.

• Positive Emotion
• Engagement
• Relationships
• Meaning and Purpose
• Achievement

The acronym for these five elements of wellbeing is PERMA

Dr. Seligman said that the key to living well is not about being happy, but it’s about being able to measure and build well being, all the elements of PERMA. He says that these are the five elements that people and businesses with wellbeing choose to pursue.

Positive Emotion: Look for the good stuff not the bad. Every night before we go to sleep we should write down 3 things that went well that day. He says people who do this are less depressed and much happier.

Engagement: Optimism and optimal performance. When we are so absorbed that time stops. Engagement is critical to our business success as well.

Relationships: This is the key to wellbeing. Working on having healthy and mutually beneficial relationships.

Meaning and Purpose: Belonging to and serving something that is bigger than ourselves. Meaning comes from altruism rather than pleasure.

Achievement: The grit to stick with it until it is accomplished.

The interesting thing about PERMA for our personal wellbeing is that the same principles apply to the corporate world a well. Corporations and small business can use PERMA to improve morale and increase productivity by doing exercises to increase PERMA. In fact the military is using these PERMA techniques.

The goal is to measure and build each aspect of PERMA in your personal life and in our business.

You can learn more in Dr. Seligman’s books; Authentic Happiness, and Learned Optimism.

You can also get a free public domain assessment at: http://www.possitivepsychology.org

And you can take his signature strengths assessment at: http://www.authentichappiness.org

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