CORE ESSENTIALS

The core essentials

There are six core areas of life that are essential to living a balanced life full of spark. When these areas are thriving, we will no longer be just surviving.

Relationships
“It turns out that people who are more socially connected [convivial] to family, to friends, to community are happier, they’re physically healthier and they live longer than people who are less well connected,” – Robert Waldinger, Harvard Medical School

Finance & Career
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
– Jonathan Swift

Health & Nutrition
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have the safest way to health.”
– Hippocrates

Generosity
“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.” – Barbara Bush

Soul & Spirit
Happiness is a quality of the Soul, not a function of one’s material circumstances.”
– Aristotle

Home & Order
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned” – Benjamin Franklin