What can make us robust in our retirement and later years?

There is good evidence that leading a meaningful life helps us work through tragedy and challenges more powerfully than if our lives lack meaning**.

It’s all very well to say this, but how do we create a meaningful life?  Does it require us to have a religion, or passionate interest, or purpose? These can be helpful to people, but what matters most is to be able to consistently connect with what is meaningful in our daily lives. And because meaning comes and goes, it is a blessing to have access to a simple framework which helps us, every day if we want to use it that way, to connect, and reconnect with what really matters.

The Map of Meaning* helps you focus on the small things that can transform a day from something boring, to something deeply satisfying. And so often we can make these transformations with tiny steps: asking a friend to have a meal; going out into nature for a walk in a place we find nourishing; doing something creative; completing a task – especially one that is challenging. Our mood lifts and life feels just so much richer and more satisfying.

Occupational Pyschologist Christine Hamilton, and Lani Morris, global authority on the Map of Meaning® have designed a thought provoking and practical course, where participants explore these options through the question, what will make our retirement most meaningful?

The Map of Meaning®, is a simple framework that helps ordinary people make sense of their lives and helps us see what really matters to us.  This, like any map, helps us take action to go in directions that we want.

It also helps us navigate when we come across obstacles, the things we don’t want. The course will help you get clear on what you want to create, and give you a way to keep creating meaning in the years ahead.

Click here to find out when the next “Creating a Meaningful Retirement Course” is.

** See article on “Meaningful Life in Retirement” by Ariane Froidevaux1 and Ivana Igic2 1University of Texas at Arlington, United States; 2 Military Academy (MILAC) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

And  “Association Between Life Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older Than 50 Years”

Aliya Alimujiang, MPH; Ashley Wiensch, MPH; Jonathan Boss, MS; Nancy L. Fleischer, PhD, MPH; Alison M. Mondul, PhD, MPH; Karen McLean, MD, PhD; Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD; Celeste Leigh Pearce, PhD, MPH