A while back I did a video called meaning the self-destruct button in that video I showed you how?
The meaning you assign to any experience can completely destroy your life today
I'm going to show you how meaning can save your life?
I'm going to show you how changing the meaning that you add to an experience and
Living in a way. Where what you do really matters can completely transform your quality of life
Fulfillment is the feeling we are all looking for in life. We want to feel fulfilled and everything that we're doing
We want to feel like what we are doing really matters and like what we're doing has deep meaning
But all too often. We just go through the motions of life
We do the things that we think have to be done or should be done
We need to take two approaches for living our life
With deep meaning so that everything that we do really genuinely matters the first approach is to make sure that everything we do
Actually matters and the second approach is to realize that if we change the meaning we assign to the things that we do we can
Make every little thing matter
when we take the first approach we take a serious look at whether what we are doing really matters or not and
We then live our life according to what really matters. We stop putting our energy into the things that we realize really don't matter
one of the greatest gifts of lying on your death better
Experiencing a near-death experience or even of having someone you love die is that it puts all things in life into perspective
It shows you what really matters
One of the best tools you can use in your life is to close your eyes and imagine that you are actually on your deathbed
But you are looking back at you and your life right here right now in this moment
You're looking at whatever. You're trying to make a decision about whatever you're putting your energy into whatever
You're worrying about whatever you're doing or thinking about doing and you ask yourself does this matter
If the answer is no take your energy out of it stop putting your energy into things that don't matter if the answer is yes
Ask yourself. Why it matters for
example
Does me filming this video really matter?
Yes, it does. Why because I feel like by providing this video
I'm going to be showing people how to really live and this is information which will outlive even my temporary life
That matters to me
Only you can know what really matters
But start living every thought and every word in every action according to what really matters
When we take the second approach, we look at anything that we are doing in terms of how does this really matter?
For example I could decide that doing the dishes
The sink really does not matter
It's just something that has to be done
But what if I realize that doing the dishes takes pressure off of other people in the house and that frees them up to experience?
More things that they enjoy
Then doing the dishes does matter doing the dishes does have deep meaning oh
For example let's imagine that I have a crap customer support job at a cellphone company. I may decide this really doesn't matter at all
But what if I realize that making someone's phone work for them is the thing that enables them to save one of their relationships?
Or maybe making someone's phone work for them is the reason that they see an Amber Alert
And they report the location of a missing child who's been kidnapped?
then
Your work does matter
Sometimes we just can't change the fact that something we're putting our energy into really doesn't matter
But often if we change the meaning that we are assigning to something that we're doing we find out that what we are doing
Can really matter
This is in fact one of the deep meanings behind the old Buddhist saying which goes like this before enlightenment chop wood carry water
after enlightenment chop wood carry water
This is to say that there is no great change in your life before enlightenment and after enlightenment
Enlightenment does not make you any less human
However what it means is before
You gain enlightenment chop wood and carry water doesn't hold any great meaning. It doesn't matter much just something that you do
after
Chopping wood and carrying water holds a great meaning
it really matters a
Little tip is that you will notice that most of the things that really matter and most of the meaning that enriches your life are
things that create and enhance your connection with other people
We need to be living our life from both perspectives
simultaneously if we live our lives from the strategy of making sure that anything we do really matters and also of
Changing the meaning so that we see how every little thing we do in life
Can really matter your life will be so full of meaning and will matter so much you will feel as if you have truly lived
Have a good