How to Properly Measure the Quality of Your Life

Do you, yes you reading this, have a good life?

I’m all for the idea of contentment, but look at how you are living and ask yourself whether or not you’re content with it. Be brutally honest.

There’s a universe between contentment and apathy but they feel centimeters away from each other.

I wouldn’t bash on a normal life if normal people appeared to be, even on average, remotely happy. They don’t. Are you?

Do you have to get rich to have a quality life? Nope. Do you have to build an amazing magical passion? Nope. Do you have to look like a supermodel, be famous, and have 9 million friends? Nope.

But look, you know whether or not you’re even close to objectively having a truly high-quality life by your own standards. And you’re probably not.

Why not just admit it and fix it?

Let’s take a look at how.

The Yin and Yang Approach to Happiness

It’s funny. As much as I talk about success in the worldly realm, I’ve also spent the past half-decade studying Eastern Philosophy. I meditate every day, do yoga, and have studied zen philosophy. I once legitimately considered moving to Asia and living in a cave