What Makes A Meaningful Life?

Nearly 80 years ago a psychologist named Viktor Frankl stood up to Sigmund Freud. Freud was saying that the primary desire of man was to pursue pleasure, but Frankl disagreed. He said the primary desire of every person was to experience a deep sense of meaning, and when they can’t find meaning, they numb themselves with pleasure.

At Storyline, we agree with Dr. Frankl. In fact, we’ve spent the last 7 years helping people create unique, custom life plans that help them experience the deep sense of meaning Frankl talked about.

If you’ve not created a Storyline Life Plan yet, or want a refresher on yours, join us in Chicago, November 5th and 6th and create yours.

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Frankl said there are three components of a meaningful life. I’ll share them with you here, but just know we’ll be studying them in depth together in Chicago.

Here they are:

1. A project that demands your attention: Simply have something important that you’re working on that requires you to get out of bed every day. Turns out we weren’t designed to sit and study our belly buttons. We need to find a useful purpose in the world.

2. Unconditional friends: Life is best lived in community and so relationships matter. To experience a deep sense of meaning, we need to surround ourselves with people who love and accept us as we are. We need close, loving relationships.

3. A redemptive perspective on our suffering: Life is full of challenges and sometimes even tragedies. To experience meaning, we must redeem these difficult things by finding a perspective on them that betters our lives. To experience meaning, we can’t let tragedies take us down, we need to redeem them.

If 2015 was another one of those years that felt bland and routine, it’s time to make a new plan.

Until we make a new plan and execute that plan, nothing will change.

In 2 weeks the price of Storyline increases. Grab some friends and register today. We’d love to have you join the family of people who are living a better story.

Come discover the conference that has already changed thousands of lives. Don’t miss out, register today.