What's the meaning of life?

This sense of the word reflects the assumption that events are linked to each other in terms of an ultimate goal, that there is a temporal order, a causal connection between. It assumes that phenomena are not random but fall into recognizable patterns directed by a final purpose.

"Flow" author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi see this from a different angle arguing that “The meaning of live is the making of meaning”.

“To experience flow, one must set goals for one's actions: to win a game, to make friends, to accomplish something in a certain way", author says. Flow, as explained in another article of this blog, is that pleasure we get when, immersed in a chosen activity, the challenge and our competence are in good equilibrium.

The goal in itself is usually not important: what matters is that it focuses a person’s attention and involves it in an achievable enjoyable activity. The unrelated goals that separate flows activities merge into an all-encompassing set of challenges that keeps purpose to everything a person does.

Turns out to be astonishing simple. Someone who knows his desires and works with purpose to achieve them is a person whose feelings, thoughts and actions are congruent with one another, it is therefore a person who has achieved inner harmony.

The result is that harmony is brought to consciousness. Someone who is harmony no matter what he does, no matter what is happening to him, knows that her/his psychic energy is not wasted in doubt, regret, guilt, fear but is always usefully employed.”

Coaching aims at delivering exactly this: harmony to the consciousness.

An objective and a plan is set at each session creating a meaning, a purpose for the client. An harmonic line between what's inside and what's outside.