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A is the last letter of perma and in many respects is the most straightforward and obvious. We can all feel a sense of accomplishment when we achieve something that we set out to do. These goals can be quite small or much larger. I felt a sense of achievement last night when I managedContinue reading “A- Accomplishments or achievements”

Today we reach the fourth letter of PERMA. M – meaning. As humans we need to feel a sense of meaning of belonging and worth. This often comes from having a purpose in life. The purpose can help us to focus on what is really important particularly when we are facing considerable challenge or adversity.Continue reading “Meaning: belonging to and serving something that is bigger than the self”

Moving on through Perma we move to addressing positive relationships. We often think about relationships as being with our nearest and dearest ie our families and our close friends. In reality we have relationships with all of the people who we come into contact with on a regular basis. Sometimes that is only for aContinue reading “(Positive) Relationships interacting with others”

I am back to discussing the anacronym, PERMA. Yesterday I discussed the initial letter which is concerned with personal enjoyment. Today I am considering Engagement. This concept is closely linked to ideas of flow or being in the moment. It is when we engage with something to the exclusion of everything else. On the oneContinue reading “Engagement – being in the moment”

I have said that over the next few days and weeks that I will be unpicking some aspects of the term flourishing, and the anacronym PERMA, demonstrating how they apply in daily life and how they appear in my life. Today I am addressing Positive Emotion. In terms of flourishing positive emotions is more thanContinue reading “Positive Emotion – happiness?”

I often talk about mindfulness but whilst thinking about this recently, I feel that I should be talking about flourishing instead. I cannot claim that I coined the term, what I can claim is that with colleagues I enhanced a definition and conducted research to look further demonstrate its relevance in one area of researchContinue reading “Flourishing a new approach to life”

It has been a really busy week. Last weekend started with having an extended family in the gite. I am pleased to report that that was really successful. They were really happy and provided a five start review. So whilst there was a lot of work up-dating the gite it would seem that it hasContinue reading “Getting back to normal”

And yes I know I do know French people who say this! The phrase is probably the best way to describe today. I am absolutely exhausted, I’ve had a shower and am now sat in my pyjamas with a glass of wine in front of the fire. We have almost finished setting up the gîteContinue reading “Ooh la la!”

We have slogged in the gîte all day. All sound insulation and vinyl is now down. Tomorrow we begin the big clean and setting up all of the rooms. We have been invited to a barbecue so that is where we are going now. We need a little down time. I’m not sure that IContinue reading “Apologies”

This is a very short post. We are up against it this week. Each job has led to another. So whilst we thought we’d be ready by now we’re not! We will have to finish tomorrow in order that I can clean and set up on Friday. So over tomorrow and Friday I am hopingContinue reading “16°C @19.45!”