With reticence about joining the crowd of bloggers (never been a joiner and that can work against you if they’re giving out free food!) and excitement about a topic that has been top of mind for several years, I am writing the first entry to my blog, A Meaningful Life.

Experience tells me that whatever I say this blog is about now will only morph over time to some version of itself, but I feel it’s important to declare what my intention is for starting this.  I have just handed in the first draft of my manuscript of my fourth book, which is due out next year.  It’s about meaning—why we crave it and how we create it. I usually have no desire to write for a year or two after handing in a book, but I guess am not done with this subject yet so I am starting this blog to continue.

Working with fellow humans as their executive and personal coach over 17 years, being an author, a public speaker, and a media resource for more than a decade as well as having completed interfaith seminary in 2006 has exposed me to people both privately and publicly who have given me a wealth of experience.  I certainly don’t have the corner on the market for answers to some of humanity’s greatest questions about life and existence but since I have spent most of my life asking the same thing, studying and working with people who are asking those questions, I feel I can give context to anyone trying to reach for a new level of consciousness.  That’s not to say I am a fully conscious, enlightened being.  Like most people, I have moments of great enlightenment and many more moments of human ugliness.  But I am committed to persevere as a student of life and like most students, there is always someone coming up with us who we can teach.  So, as student and teacher in these entries, I will share what I learn that might be meaningful for the reader and I will air my own disappointments, challenges and triumphs when I am merely exploring what they might mean.  (No answers yet!)

I suppose it is inevitable that this venue is by nature a place where there will be agreement and disagreement with what I say. That won’t be new territory for me but it’s not always an easy one.  This blog will be monitored for truly inappropriate responses, but a censor, I am not.  So, take 24 hours away before writing anything nasty. OK?  And respond positively immediately, while it’s fresh and poignant.  And do come along for the ride. 

I look forward to growing a discussion about creating “A Meaningful Life”.
I certainly wish you one.