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Good Life Project · January 8, 2024 · 48m

Build Your Good Life Roadmap

Fields presents his Good Life Buckets model: three domains (vitality, connection, contribution) that determine life satisfaction. Through exercises and reflection, he guides listeners to assess their current state and set intentions for each bucket.

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Canon

Fields argues that the contribution bucket is filled not by achieving but by taking responsibility: mentoring a junior colleague, contributing to a community, building something that serves others. Achievement without responsibility for others feels hollow.

Highlights

Life satisfaction depends on three buckets — vitality (health/energy), connection (relationships), and contribution (meaning/purpose) — and most people drastically neglect at least one
Fields presents the three-bucket model: most people can identify which bucket is full and which is empty. A successful executive with no relationships has a full contribution bucket and an empty connection bucket. A devoted parent with no energy has a full connection bucket and an empty vitality bucket.
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