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Course21 days2–20 min per dayExistentialCompassion

The meaning journey

Three weeks from what matters to actually living and contributing in line with it.

How it works

One exercise, session or article per day for 21 days. You go at your own pace — the app remembers where you are, and you can pause and restart whenever you want.

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Day by day

  1. 1
    Self-assessment
    How is meaning doing?
    Four scales that split meaning into its parts (coherence, direction and mattering), plus the search for it.
    4 min
  2. 2
    Article
    Meaning is not an answer you find, but a direction you choose
    The question of life's meaning sounds so big that it can paralyze. But meaning is rarely hidden in the big things. It is built in the small, again and again.
    2 min
  3. 3
    Exercise
    Values exercise
    List ten things that feel important, narrow them to five core values, and see where your everyday life already lives by them.
    20 min
  4. 4
    Exercise
    The ikigai map
    Map where what you love, what you are good at and what someone needs overlap. Not to find a magic answer, but to see where it is worth digging.
    15 min
  5. 5
    Exercise
    The me without the title
    Two thought experiments that strip away roles and titles, one at a time, until what remains becomes clearer
    8 min
  6. 6
    Exercise
    The life story
    You already carry a story about who you are. It has simply written itself. Here you read it, find the turning points, and choose how the next chapter begins.
    18 min
  7. 7
    Story
    Georg and the bench
    When the calendar empties, meaning rarely comes back as a project — more often as a bench, a question and a name.
    5 min
Show all 21 days
  1. 8The value gap9 min
  2. 9When two values collide12 min
  3. 10The values compass8 min
  4. 11This week's value10 min
  5. 12From value to action10 min
  6. 13An action that counts10 min
  7. 14The time you have12 min
  8. 15Meaning through giving10 min
  9. 16The small thing that's enough9 min
  10. 17A moment of awe8 min
  11. 18The eulogy15 min
  12. 19Rewrite a chapter14 min
  13. 20Your story, from a little distance10 min
  14. 21How is meaning doing?4 min

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