Living-on purpose is much like the process of weaving. Like in the picture above, first you need to discover your warp threads, or the threads of purpose, around which you can start weaving.

Purpose is not a single idea but is made up of multiple threads, that represent the things we love and care about the most. Some times we have to look hard to see threads hidden underneath the edifice of the life we have built. Sometimes we drop a thread and come back to it later in life.

Meaning is something we don’t often pay attention to until we’ve lost it. We wake up one morning and can’t find our mojo. Or we can’t see the point anymore in something that used to motivate us. Chances are we’ve lost our sense of meaning. In this article I share what I’ve learnt about why meaning comes and goes and some of the common traps that can cause loss of meaning.

With 2024 round the corner, many of us will start evaluating 2023 and setting intentions for 2024. It’s great to pause and take stock and ask “How can I make my life more meaningful next year?”.

“The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul” Leonard Cohen

As a change-maker, do you also feel it’s getting harder to discern what meaningful change looks like? For all the dedicated efforts of change-makers around the world, we have not done enough, nor acted fast enough. We have entered a new unprecedented phase of history where our human foot-print on Earth has disbalanced the planet’s life-sustaining systems, threatening life as we know it. Many of us are left asking What does meaningful change look and feel like now?