Introduction

More than ever before, how to keep engaged meaningfully is increasingly becoming a concern for many people especially adults. Traditional community settings are getting extinct, with more people getting connected to phones, tablets, laptops and computers. Changing work styles, locations, and the education structure are continuing to disrupt people connectivity.

What does it mean to keep engaged meaningfully?

Keeping engaged meaningfully may imply a combination of physical, mental, professional and social well-being. It is more about paying attention to your lifestyle. It may include aspects of health, career, family, friends, learning, fostering holistic, fulfilled and meaningful living. 

What should one pay attention to? It is a broad aspect but my focus will be on three areas: health, wealth and relationship engagement.

Health Engagement

Health in all its forms is the most important aspect to keep active engagement on. Health is the resource everyone needs. It determines many other aspects of life; quality of life, productivity, emotional wellbeing, relationships, personal development, financial success, happiness, and enjoyment making it the most invaluable resource to pay more attention to.

It is the foundation and indicator of overall well-being. Jim Rohn once said “Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.”  What this straight away meant was that once you don’t have health, you are no longer living. It is reemphasized by Mahatma Gandhi that “it is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” With a disclaimer, I am not a health expert but this is what I have learnt and I encourage you to pay attention to some of the following:

1. Engage in practices that reduce stress for improved physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
2. Practice to the best extent possible a balanced diet limiting sugars, processed foods and alcoholism.
3. Keep your body hydrated to support energy levels and digestion. 
4. Practice regular exercise of low to moderate intensity fitness routine.
5. Have sufficient and quality sleep. 

Without health, anything else cannot make any sense. So, health engagement is essential.

Wealth Engagement 

Attracting, effectively using, growing and protecting wealth is a growing and fast changing approach to the management of financial resources. It has gone beyond individual knowledge and skills to active collaboration and participation in wealth management. Many people than ever before are involved in how to attract wealth, there is a much deeper effort on how to effectively use money, more interest in how to grow and multiply wealth and many adults are now concerned with how to protect wealth.

Wealth engagement and management is now among the top three most productive niches in the world. There is more engagement between clients, financial institutions, advisors and mentors than ever before. The discussions are mainly centered on financial priorities, risk management, fast changing business and operating environment.

There is rapidly growing flexibility and adaptation to new forms of wealth: the crypto currency market size in 2022 was valued at USD 4.67billion dollars by Grand View Research.  Capital markets, money market funds and digital resources are all recent wealth engagement products on the market. Technology is continuing to play a fast changing role in wealth engagement.  Necessitating financial education and empowerment today than ever before.

Financial literacy is getting integrated in the basic life survival skills everyone needs now. Calling for deeper financial knowledge of how money works and how wealth is created, used and protected shaping wealth engagement agenda.

In most of the wealth engagements, it is emphasized that those who are not actively involved in these discussions will be left far behind.

Relationship Engagement

Relationships are about creating, developing and maintaining meaningful connections. It about being emotionally, mentally, socially aware of each other’s needs, aspirations and connectedness in those aspects.

Life is known to be about relationships. In whatever you do, you do it for relationships. You create a family for relationships, you have friends for relationships, you work and relate with the people, in whatever field, you relate and engage with people.

The world is becoming a “busy” and “noisy” place that we fail to pay attention to the relationships that matter most in our lives.

The key relationship is with your creator. “It all starts with God,” says Rick Warren the Author of The Purpose Driven Life.  The other relationships are for health, wealth and social engagements.

The time you give to something shows how you are connected and engaged to it. More time demonstrates how you value, connect and engage with it.

Conclusion

Life is about health, wealth and relationship engagement. The strength of engagement is connected to the time spent on a particular aspect of interest. We can learn and continue to improve engaging meaningfully.

A toast to engaging meaningfully.

Dr. Charles Barugahare