Discovering Your

SIGNIFICANCE

PARCSEN

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

SIGNIFICANCEThe quality of being important, of having

notable worth or influence.

meaning in life

Merriam-Webster

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

Everyone is on a Quest for

Significance

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

“the business of self-actualization can best

be carried out via commitment to an

important job”

Maslow (1965)

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

I am busy because I am vain. I want to appear important. Significant What

better way than to be busy?

Eugene Peterson

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

When the cheering stops..

National Football League

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

“Retirement is a one-way trip to

insignificance.

Mason Cooley, American writer

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

“person is actualizing himself by giving himself through

serving a cause higher than himself”

Frankl (2000)

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

“becoming part of collective entities

[allows] individuals to extend their selves in space and time [and hence] to overcome

the inherent limitations of their

individual identity…”

Castano & Dechesne (2005)

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

Suicidal terrorism: “attempts at significance restoration,

significance gain, and prevention of

significance loss.”

Prof Arie W. KruglanskiUniversity of Maryland

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

Legacy

Memory

Reward

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

“I am going to be significant.”

“I AM significant!”

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

5 Questions

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

Who are you?

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

What do you do?

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

Who do you do it for?

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

How does what you do affect their lives?

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

How does it make them feel?

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

5 Stories

Discovering Your SIGNIFICANCE.

Something you have done well;

How you did it;

How did it make you feel?