For years, I assumed happiness was something to pursue—a destination reached through the right achievements, relationships, or habits. But over time, I began to see that this way of thinking was backwards. The happiest people I met weren't chasing happiness itself. They were cultivating lives marked by meaning, integrity, purpose, and connection.

Digital communication is a seductress that invites us to disconnect from ourselves, our present moment, and the people around us more completely than anything else. Several reports suggest…

Establishing a strong connection with and awareness of your body is an essential part of improving your overall connection to yourself.

https://youtu.be/sBcB1f7sVZI Do you wonder if there’s more to life than what you’re living? I certainly did. At TEDx Nashville 2019, I shared the single, simple key to transform…

Did you know that most of us will spend about one-third of our lives working? That’s 90,000 hours on average. Yet too often, people treat work as a…

Connection — in the sense that we use the word — is an intuitive idea that’s surprisingly tricky to define. It’s not the same as happiness, it’s something.…

Much of Connection Theory is about simplifying and streamlining your existence, so that we can more easily glide into a connected life rich with meaning. Many books have…

Family remains one of the primary ways we source connection to others. If you are one of the lucky few, then your biological family may be a place…

We’ve been doing a series of blog posts on how to cultivate more meaning in everyday life, because it is the single most powerful way to experience a…

One of the most important skills in our quest to infuse more meaning and joy into your life is being able to make meaning – especially in activities…

Do you often find yourself at the end of the day wondering what happened to your time? Does it feel like you never have enough time to do…

Alignment is the ultimate goal of genuine connection. It is the physical manifestation of what it feels and looks like to be connected with yourself and living in…

Human beings are hard-wired to seek meaning in our lives. It’s something we all crave and yearn for, and research shows that having high levels of meaning in…

Death and dying are challenging concepts for most of us. When I founded and directed a Health Psychology Department, working with seriously ill and dying patients in a…

Whether you’re just starting your journey to become more authentically connected to yourself, others and the world around you…or you’re already at an advanced stage of self-actualization, one…

We talk a lot about self-connection on this blog. In many ways, it is the cornerstone for connection more generally – so it would probably be good to…

How many times have you heard someone say their life’s goal is just to be happy? Or a parent say all they really want is for their kids…

If you’re lucky, you might feel you have relatively good relationships and a decent job, and are more or less living in control of your life. Things are…

According to Dr. John Ratey, who is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, practicing psychiatrist, and author of seven books on brain functioning, yes!…

Hello there! Welcome to the Purpose Project. We’re a San Francisco-based research lab and community resource for cultivating authentic, meaningful lives—what we call “connected living.” We want to…