Take a few minutes to think about your life.

A meaningful life is the way to achieve lasting happiness. When you are living your life with meaning. When you know there is a meaning to your life.

These following questions, inspired by the book, The Mind Gymnasium, may help you to gain an understanding of your life to date and in the future.

Answer the following nine questions honestly but don’t spend too much time deliberating. It is often better to write down the first thing that comes into your mind before the editor has a chance to stop you.

1. What did you enjoy most last week?
2. Who has been the most significant person in your life to date? What have they done?
3. What is the most risky decision you made in your life to date? Why was it so risky?
4. What do you consider to be the greatest opportunity you missed in your life?
5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Why?
6. What do you most like about yourself?
7. What was your ambition when you were young?
8. Who do you most admire in the world, living or dead? What is it about them that you like?
9. If you were given six months to live, what would you do?

Knowing how to live with meaning and purpose is knowing how to tap into the spiritual you. Living life as a result of examining and understanding your personal values and attitudes. There is a great difference.

Therefore we learn to accept that life is an ‘active process’, it is not passive. We have to DO something to make life work. We have to make some form of effort. That motivation or doing is ‘inside us. We are in charge of it. All we need is to be willing to find it and refocus ourselves.

If you want to be happy start by finding your original values and attitudes. As you understand them you become more contented with your life and are then able to create the life you wish to lead.