Your life is a series of repeating days: day by day, you go to work and return home at night. But sometimes you wonder if there’s any meaning to your existence. What is YOUR meaning of life? You occasionally seek something more significant, especially after several years of working since graduation.
What is most meaningful in your life? You keep asking…
Finding the meaning of life is complex because it encompasses various elements that you may sometimes overlook in life’s challenges.
How do you find the meaning of life? What purpose do you serve in this world, for those around you, and society? Are you dedicating yourself to a worthy goal, fulfilling your life’s mission and potential, or merely existing, living day by day?
It may seem distant, and at times, you might dismiss the idea altogether, wondering why you should bother.
But at some point, you pause and reflect on the purpose of your current actions. Are they meaningful? Are they worth continuing? What is your ultimate destination? Are you on the right path: chasing fame, wealth, a successful career, or simply seeking a peaceful haven, contentment, health, and harmony with your children?
Every person carries a mission in life that no one can replace, no one can replicate. That’s why no one else can determine your meaning of life except YOU. Because only you can truly define what you want for your life, what is genuinely meaningful that makes you joyfully embrace it, the ultimate goal you aim to achieve in the end…
Below are the steps to help you quickly discover the meaning of life for yourself without losing your way. It would be best if you wrote down the answers to the following questions.
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First, keep your current experience intact, but what would you learn if you were to start over as a child?
What would you learn if you could start over: study economics, finance, engineering, marketing, improve your English, learn Japanese, or study graphic design and business management? Think about it and write it down. These are essential for the career you are aiming for.
Second, find the meaning of life by identifying and writing down what is the most important/ your core values.
Write down 100 questions that you are currently pondering. Remember to write them on paper (remember – fully 100 questions). These questions reflect your current concerns.
Then, select and mark 10 questions you consider the most important among the 100 questions you have written.
This is the journey to find the core value that you want to choose. From the 10 selected questions above, you identify your core values. For example, health, family, freedom, independence, minimalism, positivity, peace, balance, experience, value creation… Find and write down 5-10 of your core values.
Third, list actions related to your core values
For example, if you choose family as your core value, list specific actions related to family, such as taking care of your children, educating them, encouraging them, earning enough income to support their education, investing more in their education, maintaining a harmonious relationship with your spouse, agreeing on how to raise your children… Continue to list specific actions closely associated with the 5-10 core values you identified above.
Or if you choose your core value as your career, what actions do you need to take to make your career flourish: what soft skills to develop, what knowledge to learn, who to expand your relationships with, and what position to achieve?
Fourth, ask yourself, in your current life, how much have you achieved based on your core values?
For example, if you choose health as your core value, what percentage of the ideal 100% is your current health? From there, you will know which point you need to improve, enhance, or maintain to achieve the best level in your chosen core values.
When the ideal level reaches 100%, satisfaction will appear… Your life will pursue to increase this number to 100%, or if you cannot reach the ideal level, you will achieve a certain level of progress, which means there is progress.
You will be more focused on achieving what you desire because you will only focus on maintaining and improving your identified core values.
Fifth, combine your strengths to find the meaning of life you are pursuing.
What are your strengths? It could be empathy, good planning, logical thinking, a positive mindset, risk management…
From your strengths, combine them with your core values and actions associated with them to find meaningful life goals in your career or your work that allow you to both sustain your financial well-being and maintain the meaning of the life you are pursuing.
For example, suppose your strength is writing; you love children, value family, and want to support mothers and babies. In that case, you can combine this by writing articles to share experiences in raising children, life experiences, and doing business that benefits mothers and babies. You align with your interests, strengths, and core values from there.
What could be more enjoyable than doing meaningful things EVERY DAY?
I wish you could soon discover the meaning of life and feel content, at peace, and happy!
Another excellent reference to finding life’s meaning is a best-selling book you should read: “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl.
Or you can read my lesson from reading that book here: Strengthening the Immune System: Finding the Meaning of Life!
