2023-01-09
1 小时 12 分钟So as we all step into this year together, there's a big question that I think is on everybody's mind.
And that question is, what does it actually take to live a good life?
Is it about health or wealth, friendship, love, passion, purpose?
All some, none of the above?
Or are there things that really matter that are fairly simple to cultivate, no matter your circumstance, but that most of us completely miss?
And maybe most importantly, what can we do?
How much is actually in our control?
And does that vary from person to person, or even within one person's life, from moment to moment, month to month, season to season, no matter who you are, what you do, or what life brings your way, the question of what it means to live a good life, it resonates at the core of every single one of us.
And it is more important now than ever, because everything has changed.
Our lives have been upended.
The way we live and work and play and connect, the way we think and feel is shifting, seemingly moment to moment.
All of the external elements that we relied on as markers of everything from success to happiness, to connection to safety, it's all up in the air.
These last few years have brought many of us moments of great stress and change, and in some cases, loss and reckoning.
But it's also brought moments of great potential and reimagining and possibility.
It's become a bit of an invitation to both get honest and also ask where we really want our lives to go and to be this one life that we've been given and how we might be able to participate in making it happen.
So I have been studying this question.
What does it mean to live a good life for my entire adult life?
In the past decade, it has become the center of my professional pursuits, really asking, what are the components, the key contributors?
What's real?
What's fake?