Sometimes we got lost on our daily priorities. We are so deceived for what we want to achieve in a short period of time just for the benefit of getting that extra financial profit. All that just to sacrifice our perspective of what is really important for our life. I'm a young guy with 24y from Portugal. Today I'm working for the creative/corporate industry for 3yrs. Entering the industry was everything that I wished to achieve since junior high school. To give you more context, it was taught to my generation that if we don't study enough we will never get a comfortable job and a "life". In other words, we would be miserable without a positive future. This was taught to kids between their 15yrs to18yrs. How insane is teaching someone with this toxic anxious overview of the world? How is this possible to mean happiness to someone? Is this truly the meaning of happiness and achievement? Ofc not. And I learn it from the worst way. After some years of intense work and studies, I started to introduce bad habits on my daily basis. I didn't sleep well; sometimes I forgot to eat; didn't practice any kind of sports; being with friends/family was an occasional situation because I wanted to work so intensively to achieve my goals asap; after that, I started to hear negative/sad music influencing my mood, suddenly all these activities together made my life a total mess! I broke my feelings, my mental health was unstable and even health was horrible. I got so lost that the only solution to find meaning for my life was visiting a psychologist and share my stories with someone close that understood my situation. After having good input from both sides I decided to change my daily basis radically. I started to visit my friends and family often; I cook balanced and healthy meals; started to visit new places in my free time; going to the gym was a need!; meditation and the psychology sessions was a good solution for taking care of my mental health, and finally, I found practical methods to manage my daily responsibilities making me feel secured, controlled and less overload with tasks. I just needed to make clear that I'm a good person but did poorly choices on my life. Just needed a bit of courage to change everything that I was taught me to believed. For me, the truly essential is everything that I mentioned. Stability, Happiness, Courage, Determination, Positivity, and Flexibility. We will have problems all our life. We all have problems. But we need to see them as challenges. Things won't get better unless you get better first like Rob Dial (@robdialjr ) said, the creator of The Mindset & Motivation Podcast. My truly essential is my welfare.