Our marriage and couples counselors and relationship therapists at Marriage Couples Counseling & Life Coaching have found six key questions from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute that can help couples find greater meaning, purpose and get more in touch with what they really value in their lives.
First: If you had full control over how you spent your time in a single day free of your current obligations, what top three things would you spend your day on?
Second: Choose one of your top three things. What do you love about it and and why would you spend your day on it?
Three: If you spent most of your day doing this thing, how would you feel about your life?
Four: Do you have enough knowledge to pursue this thing? If not, what would you have to do to become more knowledgable?
Five: Are there any barriers – internal, external or both – that you may have to overcome to get this knowledge?
Six: What’s one small step you could take in the coming week that would help you move closer to doing what you really love?
Suppose both of you sit down together – ideally on a leisurely weekend morning – and take turns answering the above six questions.
How close would you come to finding greater meaning, purpose and deeper value in your lives?
