The meaning of meaning

Have you hit your mid-year lull yet?

Does the feeling of New Year resolution and invigoration seem like a distant memory?

Are you swamped with work and just feel a little flat?

The months of May and June traditionally can be tough ones…our work year is in full swing, we have yet to get to half way, and the end of financial year is rapidly approaching. If you feel as though you are in a rut, or experiencing a bit of ground hog day, try asking yourself the following questions; why am I doing what I do? What is the meaning of it?

Victor Frankl, legendary author, philosopher and holocaust survivor wrote in his humanity-inspired tome Man's Search for Meaning that meaning makes anything manageable. Throughout the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, Frankl observed people find, lose and sometimes rediscover their will for life in the most abhorrent of circumstances. With meaning present, whether it was anger, love, a goal, or a desired state, Frankl observed the fundamental survival mechanism…meaning.

When you think about it, knowing the meaning behind something makes it more palatable, more manageable. Whether it is setting a goal to help focus your mental energy, or thinking about why a certain individual really ‘presses your buttons' or even just understanding the reason for getting out of bed of a morning, a search for meaning truly makes anything manageable.

As we finish typing this, we are in joggers and running gear, about to head out for our long run, the toughest session of the week in our training program (we are both running the Gold Coat half-marathon in July)…I can tell you we aren't really looking forward to the effort, heat or the pain. But meaning makes it manageable. If we don't train, we won't get the result we are after.

Meaning makes anything manageable…even for very slow, less-than-motivated amateur runners! We hope the tough stuff for you in May/June can be made manageable by discovering the meaning you attach to it.

Warm wishes,
Darren and Alison

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Enjoy!

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