What matters?

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Recently, I asked some of my clients the same question:

What matters to you?

The responses were so interesting, some where quick with an answer, some needed a moment to ponder. Here were some of the things I heard:

  • My people: my family and friends 

  • Authenticity

  • Being remembered

  • My dogs

  • Trusting myself

  • Helping people feel less alone

  • Finding friends that are easy to be with

  • Knowing my story matters

  • Someone texting that they are thinking of me

  • Getting out of debt

  • Helping people

  • Achieving something

  • Seeing the world

  • Inner peace

  • Finding a partner that I can trust

  • Learning something new

  • Letting myself fall in love

  • Staying curious and not judging

  • Keeping their dad’s memory alive

  • My health

  • Being able to do the things I want to do

  • Integrity

  • Someone having my back when I’m not in the room

  • Sleeping well

  • How I feel inside more than what people think of me

  • Being free and having adventures

  • Creating new things

  • Spending time with people who make me laugh

  • My faith

  • Knowing I don’t have to perform or pretend

  • Deep conversations

  • Forgiving myself

What matters to you?

What matters to the people you love?

Take some times this week to consider your own list of what matters.

This is a great practice to take ourselves into a larger perspective, beyond our daily stressors. Life gets small and mundane if we let it. Autopilot is a very tempting way to live. To have a more meaningful life, we have to zoom out and remember what really matters.

Take some time to also think about what matters to the people you love.

Ask them. Start a conversation with this email. See what really matters to the people you love. Then help them find more of that. Encourage them to do things that matter most to them. And, you do things that matter to them as a way to show them your love. Remind them that they matter to you. 

You are someone who matters to me. Writing these emails each week matters to me. Pondering life with you and being human at the same time as you matters to me. I’m glad we are in Human School together. 

Do the things that matter to you. 

Do the things that matter for people you love. 

More mattering, more love.

Lots and lots of love,