Master Your Destiny

What makes life worth living? What makes you wake up in the morning or keeps you up at night? What is your "why"? This workbook was created to provide you with evidence-based practical activities and exercises to deepen your experience of meaning and purpose for yourself and others in your professional and personal circles. By integrating activities, insights, theories and practical knowledge from the fields of Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, and Meaning in life, this workbook is the first integration of mindfulness and meaning to allow you the life-changing experience of finding your personal purpose in life. The authors are world-renowned scholars in the areas of mindfulness, purpose, and other aspects of positive psychology. We invite you to a meaningful journey of reconnecting to your inner compass. Contents Introduction About this workbook Packing our backpack for the journey of mindfulness and meaning Exercise 1: Calibrating your Compass Exercise 2: Transcending the Boundaries of your Comfort Zone Exercise 3: Getting Ready for the Journey Embarking on the journey: Meaning in life Exercise 4: Exploration of Meaning Exercise 5: Become a Meaning Detective Exercise 6: Strengthening the Meaning Muscle Embarking on the journey: Mindfulness Exercise 7: Pit Stop (1): Connecting with Yourself through Mindful Breath Exercise 8: Pit Stop (2): Connecting with Yourself through your Body Exercise 9: Gratitude Meditation Exercise 10: Hitting Mindful Roots Sources of Meaning Exercise 11: Connecting the Dots: Identifying Meaning in your Life Story Exercise 12: Discovering your Life’s Lesson Exercise 13: Connecting Life Events: Mindful Meaning through challenges Exercise 14: The Soundtrack of Your Life Exercise 15: Scripting your Life Experiencing Meaning in your Daily Life Exercise 16: Mindful Snapshots of Meaning Exercise 17: Mindful Engagement with your Meaningful Snapshots Exercise 18: Celebrating the Time We Have Exercise 19: Sucking the Marrow out of Life Translating Meaning into Purpose and Calling Exercise 20: Missing meditation Exercise 21: My Life is My Message Exercise 22: Building your Lighthouse Exercise 23: Mooring your Life’s Boat at the Shore of your Lighthouse Beyond Personal Meaning: Connecting with a Greater Cause Exercise 24: Loving-Kindness: A Path to Spiritual Meaning Exercise 25: Approaching Life with an Open Heart Exercise 26: The Extraordinary of the Ordinary Exercise 27: An Attitude of the Sacred Mindfulness and Meaning: Bringing it all Together Exercise 28: Back Home from Your Journey: A Reflection Exercise 29: Life after the Journey: Practical Insights for a Meaning-Filled Life Exercise 30: Making it Stick: Creating Habits of Mindful Meaning Guided Meditation Scripts 1. Breathing Meditation 2.Body Scan Meditation 3.Gratitude Meditation 4.Mindful Meaning in Challenge 5.Best possible Legacy Meditation 6.Loving-Kindness Meditation About the Authors