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The Five Essential Elements of Wellbeing

Below is an excerpt of  from Gallup Management Journal posting 

What differentiates a thriving life from one spent suffering?

by Tom Rath and James K. Harter, Ph.D.

Adapted from Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements (Gallup Press)

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 To construct a comprehensive measure of individual wellbeing, Gallup designed an assessment composed of the best questions we have asked over the last 50 years. To create this assessment, the Wellbeing Finder, we tested hundreds of questions across countries, languages, and vastly different life situations.

Upon completion of the research, five distinct statistical factors emerged. These are the universal elements of wellbeing that differentiate a thriving life from one spent suffering. They describe aspects of our lives that we can do something about and that are important to people in every situation we studied.

The elements

These elements are the currency of a life that matters. They do not include every nuance of what's important in life, but they do represent five broad categories that are essential to most people.

• The first element is about how you occupy your time or simply liking what you do every day: your Career Wellbeing.
• The second element is about having strong relationships and love in your life: your Social Wellbeing.
• The third element is about effectively managing your economic life: your Financial Wellbeing.
• The fourth element is about having good health and enough energy to get things done on a daily basis: your Physical Wellbeing.
• The fifth element is about the sense of engagement you have with the area where you live: your Community Wellbeing.

While 66% of people are doing well in at least one of these areas, just 7% are thriving in all five. If we're struggling in any one of these domains, as most of us are, it damages our wellbeing and wears on our daily life. When we strengthen our wellbeing in any of these areas, we will have better days, months, and decades. But we're not getting the most out of our lives unless we're living effectively in all five.

Although these elements are universal across faiths, cultures, and nationalities, people take different paths to increasing their individual wellbeing. 

To read more, go to GMJ .

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 Interview with Mike Dillard -  Tips

•  Follow the internet marketing leaders - the people who are experts can help you achieve results
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