Purpose & Meaning

Evidence-based purpose & meaning practices.

30 concepts in this area — each broken into concrete practices with the real mechanism, an honest read on the evidence, and how to practice it with IX Coach.

• Designing Your Life, Made Practical — How do you use the Designing Your Life method to find direction?
• Find Your Why, Made Practical — How do you find your "why" using Simon Sinek’s method?
• Flow and Meaning: Csikszentmihalyi’s Framework — How does flow experience connect to a meaningful life?
• Four Thousand Weeks, Made Practical — What is the main idea of Four Thousand Weeks and how do you apply it?
• Frankl’s Three Sources of Meaning — What are Viktor Frankl’s three sources of meaning and how do you access each one?
• Hara Hachi Bu, Made Practical — What is hara hachi bu and does eating until 80% full actually work?
• Ikigai, Honestly Explained — What is ikigai, and how do you actually find yours?
• Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy — What is life review, and how does structured reminiscence support well-being?
• Logotherapy — What is logotherapy and how does it help you find meaning in suffering?
• Logotherapy: Dereflection — What is dereflection in logotherapy and how does it reduce self-obsession?
• Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention — What is paradoxical intention in logotherapy and when does it work?
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Made Practical — What is Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy, and how do you find meaning in hard times?
• Maslow’s Self-Transcendence, Made Practical — What did Maslow mean by self-transcendence and how do you pursue it?
• Mattering: Feeling Like You Count — What is "mattering," and how does it affect mental health and motivation?
• Meaning-Centered Therapy, Made Practical — How does meaning-centered therapy help people find purpose when facing loss or illness?
• Minimalism, Made Practical — What is minimalism and how do you actually practice it?
• Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures — What are odyssey plans and how do they help you design your life?
• Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day — How do you stay connected to your sense of purpose when daily life crowds it out?
• Slow Living, Made Practical — What is slow living and how do you actually practice it?
• Terror Management Theory, Made Practical — How does awareness of death shape human motivation and behavior?
• The Artist’s Way, Made Practical — How do you use The Artist’s Way to unblock your creativity?
• The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character — What are eulogy virtues, and how do you build them according to David Brooks?
• The Good Ancestor: Long-Path Thinking for a Meaningful Life — How do you live and make decisions with future generations in mind?
• The Good Life: Lessons from the Harvard Study — What did the Harvard Study of Adult Development find about a good life?
• The Hedgehog Concept — What is Jim Collins’s Hedgehog Concept and how do you find yours?
• The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind — What is a legacy letter, and how does writing one help you live with more purpose?
• The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self — What is the life crafting intervention and does it actually increase purpose?
• The Regret of the Dying — What do dying people most regret and how can their wisdom change your choices now?
• Values Clarification, Made Practical — How do you identify your core values and actually live by them?
• Voluntary Simplicity, Made Practical — What is voluntary simplicity and how do you actually practice it?