Health

On your deathbed.
 
What are the three things you will have wanted to have done? 
 
Now, come back to the present and pick 3 happiness habits that you need to do each week to get there.
 
What does this tell you about what is most important?

Wealth

If we want to build for the long term, for a prosperous future, to make stuff that will be around for the next hundred years, we also need to love change. 

Our ability to embrace change, to learn from it and adapt from it could be one of the most necessary skills in current times.

Jonathan Weiner, in 'The Beak of the Finch' describes an insect found preserved in amber, millions of years old and almost identical to its modern counterpart.
 
But there’s one major difference. Today’s version can now shed its legs and regrow new ones, a survival mechanism that developed only recently, in response to pesticide exposure, something that didn’t even exist until the 20th Century. 
 
Evolution didn’t wait for permission or a perfect plan, it happened in the wild, right outside our windows, driven by necessity and change.
 
If you look outside your window you will see never ending examples of necessity for change. In the coming years without personal evolution and adaptability truly thriving will become increasingly difficult.
 
Journal Prompt: In what ways are you resistant to change? What change could you embrace right now that would later become a gift to yourself?

Relationships

I heard this story this week. It's a little cringey but I like it none the less. 
 
A professor stood before his class holding an empty jar. He filled it first with large rocks and asked, “Is the jar full?”
 
The students agreed it was.
 
Then he added small pebbles that fit between the big rocks and asked again, “Is it full now?” They again agreed and nodded along. 
 
Next, he poured sand into the jar, which filled even smaller spaces, and asked once more, “Is it full?” This time, confidently, they said yes.
 
Finally, he took a cup of coffee and poured it into the jar, saturating the sand.
 
The professor then explained, “This jar represents your life. The rocks are the truly important things, family, friends, and meaningful relationships. The pebbles are your job, home, and car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff. If you put the sand or pebbles into the jar first, what would happen? There would be no room for the rocks, the things that really matter. Prioritise your relationships; they’re your rocks.”
 
One student asked, “What about the coffee?”
 
The professor smiled and replied, “That’s just a reminder that no matter how full life seems, there’s always room for a cup of coffee with someone you care about.”

Who is someone you haven't had a cuppa with in way to long?? You know what to do. 

Freedom

If it won’t matter tomorrow, don’t let it steal your joy today.