How well-being is my key to happiness
I was asked the question in college as to:
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF WELL-BEING?
So, I googled a simple definition, it reads that well-being is the “state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy”.
I ponder- Could it be much DEEPER?
When I come to think of well-being, I think of a motivational speaker by the name of Jay Shetty and he states that…
In order to figure out who I am, on the INSIDE which was terrifying at first because who wants to know their weaknesses, but by using the resources provided by my university I conduct a truthful and trustworthy stress test, to determine any of my intense stressors.
It turns out that I'm OK!
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!
You’re probably like me and wondered wait, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?! Well-let me show you:
Now that I am aware at which level my stress is at the moment, and what I can do to take action as seen in the above image it’s time to list in down in a simpler way, so that I can understand stress in an easier to read fashion by using the stress bucket. HEARD OF IT?
Now it’s time for some fun!
Enough chit-chat about stress, because that is causing even more anxiety, lets chat about how I retreat to recharge myself- what my professor calls the “Third Place”.
No, I don’t have a magical wardrobe nor a Hogwarts key card- but what I do have are 3 MAGICAL KEYS- the ocean, nature and animals. Whenever I feel stressed out, I go towards these areas. You see I grew up in South Africa, having many and I mean many animals around me which allowed me to confide in them. Not only did I have this gift to life but I grew up around extreme adventures. Things like camping, boggy boarding- diving- swimming with sea life- collecting shells-cliff diving, eating weird insects (worst memory), making bread- the list goes on and on… But this is what makes me happy, this is what concludes my last two magical keys -the ocean and nature- THE THREE KEYS TO HAPPINESS.
The beach in Durban, South Africa
Now what’s all this chat without any real plan- so, shall we create a well-being plan?
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