How can you define a Happiness? It is a very subjective question, as every person will say that he/she needs something else in life. Some people need love, some need their own home, others would be happy if they could play guitar all day. In my personal search for a happiness, I discovered that not one thing can make a person long term happy. We are a multidimensional creatures: inteligent, emotional, expressive, social. I believe that only succeeding in a bigger number of this categories simultaneously can make us happy. So I tried to name the ones that for me are most important (list below – they are not in particular order).

  1. Social Interactions:
  • Love and feeling of being loved by someone
  • Friendships and having a someone trustworthy
  • Family

2. Physical wellbeing: Sport and Nutrition

  • Swimming
  • Running
  • Cycling
  • Yoga
  • Meditation (time spent in silence)
  • Regular and Healthy Eating

3. Intellectual development

  • Art (exploration, interpretation, creation, …)
  • Psychology and philosophy
  • Science (biology, match, physics,…)
  • Languages (developing own or learning foreign)
  • Reading (for development of imagination)
  • Conversations with other people

4. Work and Finances

  • Job that makes you feel valuable and gives you satisfaction of achievement, progression, development and aligns with your values and beliefs
  • Savings and Investments – financial security and sense of independence from surrounding and uncertain future

5. Hobby – personal projects

  • learning to play an instrument
  • drawing
  • traveling
  • photography
  • YouTube chanel
  • Blog / website

Why do I think that we need so many things to work well at once to be happy? Because if you are financially successful, but spending most of your time in hospital or if you love and feel loved, but you can not succeed in getting promoted at work/you can not change your hated job due to your financial situation, then you will always last for something more.

Above examples (bullet points) are my own fields in which I try to find a balance. I encourage you to make your own list, because having it before your eyes will make it much easier to point out and focus on areas of improvements.

Good luck! 🙂