Understand that meaning is constructed, not found.
Identify what gives your life direction and coherence.
Craft and maintain the story you tell about who you are.
Define what you want to leave behind and work backward.
Navigate uncertainty, mortality, and freedom without paralysis.
Continuously refine what you value most and why.
Find and create meaning in difficult circumstances.
Channel meaning into creative and productive output.
Connect personal meaning to something larger than yourself.
Unify all meaning-making into a coherent life philosophy.