Where do you find meaning in your life?  Each day you engage in countless greetings, discussions, and deliberations some are significant, most are not.  The significance of what you say depends on how deeply you feel.  You can make your life more meaningful by being present, refining your emotional vocabulary,  and engaging in healthy self talk.

When you are bored and distracted it is often because you are telling yourself that you are bored and distracted.  When you are angry and upset chances are you have cast yourself as the lead in an angry and upsetting story whether or not you are consciously aware.  Maybe you think feelings just happen and that your emotions are out of your control. You can choose your response if know what to say to yourself.

Hopefully you have a richer emotional experience than just happiness and sadness.  The words you use to describe your feelings, contextualize your feelings.  The richer your vocabulary the more refined your experience is and the more meaningful your life becomes.  The less words you have to express what you are feeling, the coarser your communication will be. If you don’t know to how say what you feel, precisely,
you can never be truly present.

Presence is essentially ineffable; a wordless state in which what you feel and what you think are congruently connected to the here and now.  The most meaningful moments of your life are when you are most present.  Nowhere else can you be more
abundantly you and speak authentically.  When you are present what you are presenting becomes a present.

Give the gift of your attention when you meet someone and ask how they are.  Open your heart and your mind when are talking with someone.  Consider conflicting perspectives even if you are only speaking with yourself.  The meaning in your life can
be found in your present emotional narrative.  Listen to and tell your story well.