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How well are your basic human needs being met?

Areas

Closely connected to the roles we occupy are the key areas of life that the roles fit into. Again
they are different and personal to each of us, some more or less applicable to the individual.
Here are a few of the more obvious areas of life to consider.

· Home and Family Life
· Love Life and Friendships
· Health, Leisure & Social Life

· Personal Growth, Spiritual & Attitude
· Career and Finances

Home and Family Life Most of us would agree that happiness within the family unit is important
and we tend to accept that family life should contain a healthy emphasis on loving, caring,
nurturing and supporting. For most people, family life is where major challenges are faced.
Family life can be a source of major stress and you can be certain that any challenges faced
in this area will have a knock-on effect in other areas.
Love Life and Friendships Without doubt, our human relationships with others contribute the
majority of happiness and unhappiness we experience in our lives. For every happy or unhappy
experience you will have, there will usually be another person involved, or the lack of another
person or persons in a significant area of life to influence the degree of happiness you enjoy.

Health, Leisure & Social Life Your health is a crucial part of your happiness in life. So many of us
take it for granted, until we collapse with exhaustion, stress or some other preventable condition.
Are you happy with your general level of fitness? Are you careful about your diet? Do you take
enough rest? Your general well being and happiness will have a positive effect in the area of
your health. We have to relate to so many people, those we work and live with, those we meet
out shopping in stores, banks, etc. What we are trying to get to here is how genuinely at ease
you feel interacting with other people. How comfortable are you in different social situations? It
is the broader picture of your interaction with other people we are assessing here, not merely
your pleasure gained from nights out with the girls or lads!

Personal Growth, Spiritual & Attitude The fortunate few who enjoy more happiness in life, commit
themselves to the continuous process of learning and accepting the inner truths about
themselves. The closed mind and ‘know it all’ attitude has no place in the search for happiness.
Some discover most about themselves through spiritual enlightenment, others simply by digging
deep into why they respond and behave the way they do in certain situations.

Career and Finances Are you passionate about your career choice? Does it inspire your creative
juices to flow? We spend more hours working than in any other area so it is natural that unhap-
piness, dissatisfaction or demotivation in this area will spill over, souring other areas of our lives. It
is therefore vitally important that your career stimulates you and helps you to grow. Financially,
we are not talking about how wealthy or poor you are. It’s not about how much money you
have but how you relate to it. How ‘at-ease’ are you with the flow of money?