Finding meaning in your life is the best way to ensure you are truly happy. It is the best way to enter a creative flow state, the best way to make an impact on the world and the best way to create something that has lasting impact or that changes the lives of others for the better.

This is your mission statement, your direction, your guidelines for living. But it’s something that very few of us spend time developing or thinking about.

We have no idea what we’re here for or who put us here. You may have your own opinions on that matter. But the point is that there is no definitive right or wrong way to live life.

In some ways, this is amazing because it means we are truly free. Free to interpret life in our own way. Free to choose precisely who and what we want to be. What we want to accomplish.

But it’s also a curse. Because it means we can sometimes feel aimless. We don’t have a set objective. This isn’t a game that we can win.

There is no inherent meaning, and so we need to create our own meaning. We create our own rules, we decide who wins.

And if you don’t take the time to do this? Then you’re just going to spend every day surviving rather than living. You’ll pass the time. You’ll wonder aimlessly. You’ll not thrive.

When you find your purpose and something you truly believe in then you will find that you come alive. You now know precisely what you need to do and everyone around you can feel it. You speak passionately, you hold yourself up high, you feel less preoccupied with your own petty worries.

Because everything else is just getting by. If you want to thrive and love life, then you need to inject true passion and love into what you do. That’s when you truly come alive.