About A Meaningful Existence

A Meaningful Existence is a free collection of articles and tools about the ordinary, important parts of a life: what you care about, how you spend your days, the people around you, how you decide, how you handle stress and how you keep money worries from running the show.

This site is not connected to any person or business previously associated with this domain. The domain hosted a personal blog between roughly 2009 and 2014. When the site relaunched in 2026, we kept the list of topics and their web addresses, so old links still land somewhere useful, and wrote every article again from scratch. Nothing from the earlier blog's text, photos or personal stories is reused here.

What you will find

• The library. More than a hundred articles, filed by topic and, because the addresses are the originals, by the month the topic first appeared. Browse them in the archive.
• The Just for Today Challenge. A free 31-day series of small daily experiments, with a printable checklist and a tracker.
• Book notes. Short overviews of well-known personal-growth books: what each one argues and who might find it useful.
• Tools. A life list builder, a 10-10-10 decision helper, a gratitude journal and a vision board. They run entirely in your browser.

How we write

We try to write the way a thoughtful friend talks: plainly, warmly and without pretending that one trick fixes everything. Where an article leans on research, we name the researchers or organisation and link to the source. We don't publish invented stories, testimonials, case studies or quotes we can't trace to a real source. If a famous quote is commonly misattributed, we say so.

The articles are general information. They are not therapy, medical advice or financial advice. If you are struggling, please talk to a qualified professional or, in an emergency, your local emergency number.

Privacy

There are no ads, cookies, trackers or analytics. Tools store what you type in your own browser only. Details are on the privacy page.

Get in touch

Corrections and suggestions are welcome at contact@ameaningfulexistence.com. See the contact page for what we can and can't help with.