My approach to my work has been influenced by many incredible minds, most notably by Viktor Frankl and Edith Eger. It was when I studied their work that I truly started to grapple with meaning on a practical level. As a student of Logotherapy, I learned that Frankl highlights three avenues to finding meaning: through our actions and contributions, through loving and appreciating, and through our attitude to unavoidable suffering. Regardless of which avenue we pursue, meaning is there to be fulfilled, and fulfilling it, is up to us.

Both Frankl and Eger assert, albeit in their own way, that it isn’t what happens to us that matters, as much as what we make it mean. Instead of asking why me, we ask, what now? We all have the power to choose, regardless of how difficult current situations can feel.

 This perspective is refreshing and liberating and we can weave it powerfully into every aspect of our lives – personally and professionally.