questforameaningfullife

A concept that I find is really helping me to guide my path and help me to focus how I’m working on things is this idea of alignment. Being aligned with something. It’s a way of looking at your self-development, your path, your mission, how you’re spending your time and energy, what you’re focusing on. […]

Do you ever feel like your life is out of control, like you’re surrounded by chaos? Maybe even inside yourself, and outside just a swirl of chaos? This seems to be a very common feeling, and maybe it’s the rare exception who really has life feel like an orderly environment. This seems to be the

Time is certainly something that none of us can ignore. We can’t break out of it, we can’t stop it, we can’t slow it down, can’t change its direction. We are stuck at this point in time, and time will keep moving at the pace that it chooses, and we’re just along for the ride.

Do you ever feel a sense of regret, that you’ve wasted too much time in life? That you wish you were younger and had some years back? Maybe that you would make different choices, take different paths in life, do things differently? It seems like it’s a rare few that don’t have this, at least

Have you ever been so bored that you just cannot work? You can’t seem to get anything done, because it’s just so boring that it becomes painful, and it becomes impossible to choose to continue doing the boring work without some kind of stimulation. And anybody who’s that had any kind of addiction can understand

You know how much we hear these heroic stories of somebody who’s a nobody, an average person, and then they do something great. This rise from being average to being great. It’s a wonderful story. You have great inventors. Somebody starts a business. Somebody runs an ultramarathon. Somebody climbs a mountain. All these kind of

One thing I find that keeps coming up every time I try to do something new in life is that when you’re doing something for the first time, it is so slow. It takes ten times as long, a hundred times as long, to do a simple thing. The first time is the hardest by

It seems like such a common conflict out there is to be stuck between being selfish and being selfless, helping yourself and helping others. But it’s possible that having this conflict reveals that there’s something off in the way that either of these things is being pursued, either being selfish and helping yourself, or being

Happy Groundhog Day! This funny old holiday, based on a tradition that if the groundhog sees his shadow on this day, if it’s a sunny day, that means there will be a long winter yet to come. And if the groundhog does not see his shadow, if it’s a cloudy day, then we will have

There’s one topic that can easily lead people away from happiness and joy and meaningfulness, and it’s definitely done so for me, is this word “freedom”. One of the most celebrated words in our culture, a word that sometimes seems to be used as something pretty close to happiness. Somehow, this idea of being free