A Meaning PlaybookIdeas to Improve Meaning

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A Playbook

This slide set is a collection of models and thoughts about meaning. The intent is that they can be run like plays in the lives of individuals or groups, to

help find and deepen meaning. Meaning is something that improves all that it touches. Please use these plays to help find and hold meaning for

yourself or group. May your journey be meaningful.-Tom Curtis

Personal Strategy

Know strengths and weaknesses

Design around or decide to improve

Plan, Measure, and Review frequently

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What do I really want?

What am I willing to do?

What am I willing to give up?

How long am I willing to work?

What price am I willing to pay?

What do my actions say each day?

Why do I want that, is my motive pure?

Creating Sticking Purpose

Characterize-do the sketching, rough cutting-Ask "What does it look like? Feel like? Taste like?" Form

Clarify-finer cuts and finishing-Ask "how do I know this is right? Am I willing to fully invest?" Finish

Cement-make part of all you do, use as guiding principle in decision making and time usage Use

Feeling wholeWhat does it mean to feel whole?

Is it the opposite of being empty?

Does everything have to be perfect? Or is it more accessible than that?

When was the last time you remember feeling whole? Has it been a while? Is so why? Do you believe it to be a rare state?

We can feel whole when we have taken the time to ensure that we know where we are going and that we are doing what we can do.

Stay on Track and Move Forward

Proper Tension

Balance

Check

Old and New must have purpose to stay, or they will get in the way.

Do

Come to be by doing and checking

Be undone by doing one

The PIE Model of Meaning

Purpose EnjoymentImprovement

Meaning

Joy EnergyStrength

Make measures meaningful by

measuring meaning

On measuringMeasuring

revealsMeasuring discomforts

Measuring resets

Measuring teaches

Measuring accounts

Measuring manages

Measuring observes

Measuring tests

Meaning never comes without a cost...

but it is always worth it.

Priority SettingRecognize

that there are priorities

Identify potential priorities

Run the sorting Process

Set priorities and order

Test following

Review at preset time to ensure

compliance

Priorities must be set

and kept

MeaningMeaning may be inherent or assigned. Both are

valid. It may help us to recognize which is which. Meaning may be jointly shared as it is with

inherent meaning. A community or group may have a meaning that is very similar for all members.

Meaning may also be more personal, not widely shared. We may assign meaning to events or activities or persons based on our feelings,

experiences, or relationships. As we come to see the texture of meaning, we will better be able to

understand how we relate to it and it to us. We will be able to recognize and deepen our relationship.