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The Best Explanation Of Wellbeing I’ve Come Across So Far
It’s not re-inventing the wheel… it is the wheel.
I do a lot of work in audio and a part of my job that I really enjoy is re-versioning a podcast called ‘Beyond The To-Do List’.
As I engage with each episode, I learn useful things for my own life.
An episode I worked on this week featured Megan McNealy and her “wheel” analogy for wellbeing.
It made sense to me, so I’ll share the basics here in case it’s useful to anyone else…
One Wheel To Rule Them All
Wellbeing fells like such a vague term. When Megan herself got ill, she had a sense she needed to improve her overall wellbeing, but couldn’t find a catch-all solution, or even a suitable definition.
So, she did her own homework, read a whole lot of books and research and came up with her own way of thinking about it.
Megan clearly has a systematic mind because her definition is in 3 equal parts:
- Mind
- Body
- Spirit
She believes all three of these are equally important to our wellbeing. So far, so not-too-surprising, but here’s where the wheel analogy is useful.
