Zest – approaching life with excitement and energy – is a crucial component of happiness. It encourages us to engage with life as an adventure and to embrace curiosity, novelty, and enthusiasm, ultimately enhancing our happiness and wellbeing.

In this final episode, Anya and Mark discuss zest as it relates to happiness and overall life satisfaction. They explore how engaging with life as an adventure can infuse our lives with energy and enthusiasm, and delve into the connection between zest, physical and psychological wellness, and the virtue of courage.

Three prompts

1. What puts a spring in your step?
2. Where can you be braver in your life?
3. How can you cultivate more Zest in your life?

Resources

• Good Time Journal
• Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness, by Pema Chodron
• The People Pleaser’s First-Aid Kit
• Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, by Bronnie Ware
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia Cameron
• Accidental Creative, by Todd Henry
• How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters, by Michael Bungay Stanier
• The 5 people every creative needs on their team – Morning Creative
• Isolation is the dream-killer, not your attitude – Barbara Sher, TEDxPrague
• Connect with Anya via LinkedIn
• Loving-Kindness: May All Beings Be Happy
• Anya Pearse, Intuitive advisor and her An Hour of Kindness
• Mark Steadman