A Framework for Meaning and Focus
Everyone should work through a personal mission statement. It's not about the end result, but it's the process that is so important. What other activity is as powerful for clarifying the big picture and making your values and beliefs explicit? Investing in this critical exercise accelerates the experience of an integrated life and provides a crucial foundation to inform actions and choices along the way. Better than Google Maps As I get older, life's challenges organically encourage me to climb up the Maslow Hierarchy . I find it untenable to take a nihilist view of life or even a humanist view of aging. Equally, a simple "take life as it comes" leaves me feeling demotivated and perhaps even felling somewhat irresponsible. At this junction, the stresses of finance, career ambition, and social status have diminished to a comforting background buzz. This provides the perfect white noise for a serious and meaningful review of my value framework, something t