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How To Build A Flourishing Life: The 5 Essential Elements You Need | Positive Psychology Tips

6 Sept 2016 · 2 min

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In this solo YouTube presentation, Christoffel Sneijders introduces the concept of a flourishing life as described in the book Flourishing from positive psychology. He outlines five measurable elements that together constitute a flourishing life: positive emotions, engagement (flow), relationships, meaning, and achievement. Sneijders explains that each element can be self‑rated on a 1‑to‑10 scale, encouraging viewers to assess their own standing. He cites research indicating that only about 30 % of people currently consider themselves flourishing and states his ambition to raise that proportion to 40‑50 %. The video concludes with a promise to explore each of the five elements in depth in upcoming videos, inviting viewers to reflect on their scores and work toward higher levels of flourishing.

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Hey, good to see you again. Let's talk about flourishing life. How do we get that? And there are beautiful books written about it. And one of the most profound books I read in the last 10 years is Flourishing. That's about positive psychology and it describes 5 things, 5 items, 5 parameters, 5 things you can measure that really make it happen. And you can Measure it, how to get a flourishing life. What are those 5? It's positive emotions, it's engagement, it's relationships, it's meaning, and it is achievement. 5 things how you can really become aware, do I have a flourishing life? And based on research, 3 out of 10 really can say they have a flourishing life. My ambition, let's raise that bar up to 4 or 5 out of 10. And you can think about yourself now. When I look at those 5 parameters, positive emotions, how would I rate myself on that from a scale from 1 to 10? 10 is yes, most times I have them. 1, not. Engagement, do you have engagement? Do you live in the flow? Do you really love what you're doing? 10, yes. 1, no. Relationships. How are your relationships with your partner, with your friends, with your family? Is it a 10, yeah, it's good, or a 1, horrible? Meaning. Do you have a meaning in life? Do you really want to get somewhere? Do you really contribute? Do you really wake up and think, yeah, I can mean something for myself, for others, for The community. Meaning, 1 to 10, where are you? And last but not least, achievement. Do you have achievement in your life? Do you really achieve things? In the next videos, we're going into all those 5 parameters to see how they really can get him to a higher level. See you next time. Ciao!