These topics are explored in the course on what matters. Focusing on these topics can increase your well being.
- Physiological Needs — Begin by meeting these minimum conditions for our bodies to endure.
- Human Rights — Preserve and protect these inalienable rights of every human, including yourself.
- Psychological Needs — Attain these minimum requirements for a healthy mind.
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — Study this influential theory of human needs.
- Dignity — You are worthy simply because you exist.
- Health, Fitness, and Wellness — Achieving a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
- Flourishing — Increasing our well-being.
- Emotional Competency — Increasing our well-being.
- Family — Harmonizing the center of your life.
- Progeny and Legacy — Children can bring great joy along with great responsibility.
- Peace of mind, Inner Peace — Understanding what you can change and what you cannot change is the simple but often difficult path to inner peace.
- Beauty, awe — We find beauty in something done well.
- Exploration, discovery, learning — There is much more out there than in here so venture out, discover new things, and continue to learn.
- Dreaming — Create and maintain your vision for a better tomorrow.
- Authenticity — We become authentic when the path we choose through life is congruent with who we are.
- Virtues Development — Become excellent at being human.
- Courage — Act according to your well-chosen values, especially when it is most difficult.
- Love — Enjoy your unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of others.
- Spiritual Development — Connect with a larger reality.
- Play — Go ahead and have some fun.
- Pleasure — Go ahead and pamper yourself.
- Skills Mastery — Perfect the skills required to become excellent at your chosen vocation.
- Esteem and Recognition — Earn authentic recognition and respect from the people who know you best.
- Creativity — Generate new and useful ideas.
- Stewardship and Sustainability — Protect the ability of future generations to enjoy our earth.
- Compassion — Relieve their suffering.
- Integrity — Act congruently with your well-chosen values.
- Values Development — Carefully choose, assess, and reassess your values.
- Community — Engage with communities where you belong and can thrive and contribute.
- Adopt a Global Perspective — Work to understand our world from a global perspective.
- Find your good work — Do the work you are meant to do.
- Altruism — Act on your concern for the welfare of others
- Peace on earth, good will toward all — Treat others as they wish to be treated.
- Wisdom — Realize what is most valuable in life.