thriving not surviving…

It’s Monday at 8:00 am. And you realize you are already tired and counting down to Friday. How will you possibly make it to the end of the week? While you may not think of it as surviving, it sure isn’t thriving. You can’t even remember the last time you looked forward to a Monday morning. How long has it been since your day job brought you the kind of joy and fulfillment that you get in your personal time?

Or has your day job ruined your personal life too? Wellbeing is defined as a sense of thriving in your environment. It’s not a state that you measure against someone else like you would with height or weight. It is about feeling and thinking, believing really, that you are functioning at your best given your situation and circumstances. We all know people who are not physically able to move freely who are happy and content. And we know people with functioning bodies who are weary, or unhappy, or just not content with what they have.

Well-being is just as much a state of your thoughts as it is your actions. And if you want to be more well, you start with how you think.