At Risk: Your Happiness And Fulfillment

Why you should diversify your social portfolio

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If you invest your money, you already know that you should be diversifying your portfolio.

Diversifying your portfolio means not “putting all your eggs in one basket.”

It means that if one piece of your retirement plan breaks, the whole thing doesn’t break. Diversification makes your nest egg less susceptible to risk.

What’s strange is that everyone seems to know this, but none of us seem to do it in other parts of our lives.

We put all our hopes and dreams into one career. We get all our happiness from our job. We expect our life partner to be 1,000 different people.

We can’t expect our job to give us money, purpose, happiness, and friendships. That’s too much pressure on one thing. The same goes for our partners. We can’t expect our partners, friends, or colleagues to be the people we work on a spreadsheet with, the people we jump out of airplanes with, the people we play Bananagrams with, and the people we go to sleep with. That’s just too much pressure on one person. It’s not fair and it’s not reasonable.

Happiness, purpose, and fulfillment need to come from multiple sources in our lives.

When COVID-19 spread across the world, many of us realized that some of our sources of happiness or fulfillment were compromised. We needed to invent new ones, rely more heavily on old ones, and accept some losses.

Hopefully, we’ll be out of the woods soon, but until then, diversify your happiness and fulfillment portfolios.

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Daily Post #242

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