Thrive

Thrive shines a light on the missing ingredient in our perception of success, which includes well-being, wonder, wisdom and giving, and goes beyond just money and power, which often drive people right into burnout, terrible health and unhappiness.

After Arianna’s skull-shattering incident in 2007, the doctor told her she was suffering from burnout after working 18 hours a day for so many years. If that’s not cause to take a good look at your life, I don’t know what is. Determined to put an end to the stress, she found the reason for her problem in her distorted view of success.

So far she had thought it consisted of only 2 ingredients: money and power.

When she realized she had plenty of those two things, but still felt like she wasn’t thriving, that is living a life of true fulfillment, she decided to add thriving as a third metric to measure her own success by.

To her, thriving consists of four key elements:

Well-being – taking care of your physical and mental health. Wisdom – learning on a deep level with true insights. Wonder – reflecting on the marvelous beauty of nature, art and life. Giving – being generous to others so you’ll improve your own joy and happiness.

Here’s one of the ways in which you can make sure you thrive too.

Huffington says true wisdom does have nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge. When we hear that word, we usually think of something ancient, maybe an old man with a long, white beard, who amazes us with profound insight. But that’s just because we lost touch with ourselves.

The truth is, true wisdom lives inside every single one of us. All we have to do is look inward, rely on our experiences, and listen to our gut. It’s easy to turn to the endless vastness of facts available online in our Google-fueled, information overload driven world. However, when you stop letting yourself get distracted from the day-to-day, you’ll see that even this intangible, mysterious source of just knowing what feels right and what not from inside is very real and very powerful.

After her devastating divorce, Arianna took some time to look inside, and then decided to channel all of her energy into caring for her children and being a great mum, which was exactly the right decision to get over the breakup.

So view life as a classroom, keep your eyes open and listen to your intuition whenever you can.

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