#22 Emotional Well-being

Sonja Lyubomirsky taught us that up 40% of our happiness can be defined by intentional activities that we choose to engage in. And Tal Ben Shahar gave structure to this by delineating 5 areas that we should focus on. Thus far we’ve discussed 4 of these areas, and today we’ll review what we’ve learned. Having unpacked intellectual, relational, spiritual, and physical well-being, it’s important that we pause and take stock. Part of why it’s good to pause specifically here, is because our fifth area - emotional well-being, is going to take us far longer to unpack than the previous four. It’s the area that trips us up most often, the area in which there is so much to learn.