Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I am your host Cori Miskara and in today's episode I'm going to share a few thoughts on the idea of finding meaning.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bells. Finding your life's meaning is one of those things that can feel daunting and or just too big to tackle.

Some people seem to have a natural sense of their life's purpose and meaning and

other people tend to develop this over time.

But a lot of people may never feel like they come to one grand

overarching perceived meaning for their life.

And I think a lot of people put pressure on themselves to find this or to feel like

there's a sense of things being incomplete

until I know what my purpose is and what my meaning is. And if that's important to you and maybe if you've found that, I think that's great.

But I don't actually think we need to have one core thing that is inspiring all of our actions.

Instead of trying to find your life's meaning,

my invitation to you for this episode is to explore

creating meaningful moments throughout your day.

As you're living your life moment by moment, you periodically might ask,

how can I make this moment more meaningful or how might I perceive a sense of meaning in this moment?

You can see what arises around that and then see how it inspires action in your life.

If you have some overarching central meaning

or sense of purpose that you live by,

then that's great and you can keep that and you can allow that to inform how you live your

moments. But if you haven't found that, that's okay too. Instead you might work on creating meaning moment by moment.

And after doing this for a while, you'll have more meaningful moments in your life.

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