Here you will find a range of quality resources available online across three great topics: Source of Meaning in Life, tapping into your Strengths, and Goal Setting Behaviour. Here you will find great blogs, tips and recommended free and paid-for worksheets and programs to have you lead a fulfilling life! Keep checking back here as I add to the collection…
SOURCES OF MEANING IN LIFE
Purpose Finder – Sources of Meaning Worksheet – This worksheet asks you to rate how meaningful each source of meaning in life is to you. Create your top 3-5 and spend time reflecting on these. Being able to articulate your top sources of meaning in life helps you set better goals and be more purposeful in your actions. What are sources of meaning in life? Check out my blog for more details.
TAP INTO YOUR STRENGTHS – the Values in Action (VIA) Strengths questionnaire allows you to discover your current top 5 strengths as well as those you use less in your life. Yes, it means you need to sign up, but the regular resources they send are useful and interesting, especially the monthly calendar which has a prompt for each day of that month to help cultivate meaning using a particular strength.
The survey identifies your top (and bottom) strengths, allowing you to consider those you use well, those that need a bit of tempering to allow other strengths to develop, and those you may like to improve. You can check out the list of 24 strengths here without having to sign up to the questionnaire.
GOAL SETTING BEHAVIOUR – there are so many resources out there to help you set and achieve your goals. We seek guidance on this all the time because we don’t always hit the mark. Part of this is finding what style works for you and the other part is taking action.
Check out this list of 45 goal setting activities, exercises and games to kick-start effective goal setting. And last but certainly packs some punch is a great blog, using the GROW Model, to set actionable goals, written by the legend Adam Sicinski who is an epic mindmap creator.
To be motivated into action, a goal needs to be meaningful to us, be worth pursuing as well as be challenging and exciting. How often we start the new year with a list of “new year, new me” goals – how buzzed are you after writing this? The excitement generated by this should not be underestimated. But don’t forget in all this excitement, that you need a plan to maximise your chances of achievement.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso