To answer Fekket. All it means is that everything we perceive in life, we put our own meanings on. The way the we interpret someone looked at us and what we think it means is just an interpretation. When we realize that life has absolutely no meanings, all the meanings of people, placed and things are the meanings we assigned to them, we develop a freedom, and a new ability to redefine life.

When you have such power, to create new meanings onto things that everyone else believes to be different, you can take you life in any direction you want.

It’s very interesting to learn what’s in your own, and other self improvement bloggers’, toolbox.

The key point is that it’s important to put together our own, unique set of tools from the masses available. What works for one person, might be unsuitable for someone else.

If we try to apply a technique or exercise that doesn’t fit our mindset or lifestyle, we will end up disillusioned and demotivated. Worse still, we can convince ourselves that there’s no point in trying to change and all self improvement ideas are junk.

The value lies in personalizing the lifehack to make it a success- not from forcing our life to fit the technique.

With a few tweaks here and there, we can assemble our own customized toolbox from the assortment of standardized tools out there.

As Gretchen suggests, amazing things happen when you allow yourself to be unique.

I know that probably doesn’t mesh too well with your religious views Fekket, but you might be interested to know that there is a Christian Existentialism as well.

I seriously don’t get the one about life being meaningless. I even went and read the article, but I still don’t get it. Weird.

The Urban Monk article is a freaking tome. I’m still working through it. After that, I’ll look through Pavlina’s.