Is your life meaningful?

Is your life meaningful?

How much of your day do you spend doing work that is important to you?

If today were the last day of your life would you do what you have planned today?  Perhaps you would, but you wouldn’t go through it like a mindless robot.  You would try to live this day and do this work with purpose.

What’s stopping you from that today?  Regardless of what you have on the schedule, what do you choose to do and how do you choose to do it?

You’ve got choices.

–          You could continue this day and do it like you would have if you and I hadn’t had this conversation.

–          You could come to the realization that you have a day planned that is not one that you would have chosen in your right mind – and you can choose to do something else.

–          Or, you can look at your day and decide to use your unique gifts to make whatever you do today special and meaningful for whatever it is you do.

You’ve got nothing to lose.  Today may or may not be the last day of your life, but either way we are all going to die and this life will be over before you know it.  Today is really all you have.  Your life is a series of todays that you need to make special and meaningful to you and the people you live with.

What about the job and the mortgage and the family and the adult responsibilities of our lives?  You don’t have to pack your rucksack and wander off to live with the Sherpas in Nepal.  But you don’t have to just show up either.

Today is an opportunity to change only one thing, the way you approach that work and life.  This is completely under your control.  Approach today’s mundane tasks with gratitude and, dare I say it, love.

Make them meaningful to you and you will notice something amazing and fulfilling happening.  You will notice that they become fulfilling to those others that you interact with.  Your purpose and intent will spread with a warm glow into your circle of influence.

Another wonderful symptom of making today meaningful is that it will open up access within you to your unique gifts.  Your strengths will come to the surface in response to your meaningful and grateful approach to life.  Those things that make you special, that have been hiding like scared bunnies under the desk in the routine of life will start to blossom.

Make today meaningful.

Chris,