Welcome back to our week on stress. If I asked you just one or two questions, your answers would give me a

clue on how you're dealing with stress.

The first question is on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the quality of your life?

It's a very vague question.

I'm not asking you particulars.

If life sucks, then that's a one.

If life is ecstatic, couldn't be better, that's a 10.

And now answer the question to yourself.

If you scored 8, 9, or 10, you're thriving in your future is good in every aspect of your life.

Every aspect, success, finances, personal relationships, career, personal relationships, but social interactions, physical health, emotional health,

everything is good.

If you said intuitively to yourself, five, six, seven,

you're struggling in some area of your life.

Could be sleep.

Could be not having fulfilling work. It could be anything. That's up to you to find out, but you're

struggling and you need to address something in your life. And if you scored anything

less than five, then you're probably suffering.

And you may even have a chronic illness or you might soon get one.

So this is a very good way to assess your well-being

total well-being just how's my life you know we say how's life most people

say coping it's okay, it's good, some people say it's

ecstatic, they're reflecting their state of well-being. Another question

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