How to Stay Connected to Yourself, Others and to What Matters in a Time of COVID-19
With new information emerging every day about the COVID-19 pandemic, and huge numbers of people ordered to stay home to prevent its spread, this is one of the…
Why Don't the Holidays Feel like the Holidays?
The holiday season is supposed to be joyous, loving, and celebratory – a supremely generous time when grudges are put aside, mistakes are forgiven, appreciation expressed, and everyone…
The Simplest Path to Uncluttering Our Lives
Many organizational experts offer advice and best practices for eliminating clutter. But at the heart of every uncluttering method lies the same simple truth: the things you keep…
How Do We Experience Connection to Work?
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…
Simplifying Connection Through The Gentle Art of Death Cleaning
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…
How to Make a Great Day Even Greater
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…
Can Money Buy Happiness?
Everyone has heard the expression “You can’t buy happiness,” but I suspect that on some level most people don’t actually believe it’s true. If we just had enough…
2 Tips for Finding Meaning Where There Is None
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…
How To Reclaim Your Time and Live With Intention
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…
2 Tips for Cultivating More Meaning in Your Life
Cultivating more meaning in our lives is the primary way to fast-track feeling more connected to yourself, your purpose, and those around you. This is why we spend…
How Meaningful Is Your Life?
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…
Why The Pursuit of Happiness Is a Fool's Errand
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…
Connect With the Meaning In Your Life
Many people are drawn to connection theory because they feel such a lack of meaning and purpose in their lives. They don’t feel their daily lives are contributing…