Ingredients to Well Being

Baking a cake is pretty simple, right? As someone who is challenged in the kitchen I can somehow pull it off pretty well as long as I have the correct ingredients and make sure I set the timer (which I’ve learned the hard way a few times). What would happen if I forgot to add just one ingredient like eggs or butter? As you may guess it would come out tasting a bit “off” or downright yucky!

Happiness redefined
Just as every ingredient is integral in making a cake that is tasty and enjoyable, so goes the ingredients in our lives that make for Well Being. Well Being is not just about being happy, being skinny, driving a Mercedes, having the most friends on Facebook, or scoring your dream job. It’s about how the areas of career, social, financial, physical and community all interact together. 

Lopsided living
Solely putting your energy into one or two areas in your life throws you out of balance. Let’s use your career for example. Let’s say after 5 years you worked your tail off to move up the ladder and finally got promoted to Vice President. And boom…you even got a huge raise! The only catch is you were going to have much longer hours, have to travel more frequently and take your work home with you. You have two huge pluses in the career and financial areas in your life, but what about the other parts? Because of the travel and long hours, you can barely get to the gym and have resorted to eating fast food a few nights a week. You are getting home later so have little time with your family and are missing soccer games and dance recitals because of the long hours.You haven’t seen your friends in months because you’re dead dog tired by the time the weekend comes. 

The right recipe
As you can see, when you focus too heavily in one or two areas of life, the “wins” you’ve had may cancel out because of the resulting strain it causes in other parts. Life gets lopsided from time to time but it’s good to keep an inventory and check yourself in the areas of career, social, financial, physical, community to make sure you are properly feeding each area. So ask yourself, what ingredients in my life are contributing to or taking away from my Well Being?


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