{"id":1260,"date":"2018-10-24T02:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:56:29","slug":"aim-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/significant-sustenance\/aim-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivated by Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A fascinating 1972 video clip of Viktor Frankl, filmed in Toronto, Canada.\u00a0 In this video, Frankl is calling humanity to aim to a higher standard, to pick a target beyond ourselves and while we may fall short, he argues we will reach further or closer to wholeness than if we aimed for something less.\u00a0\u00a0 In light of this, consider Apostle Paul&#8217;s encouragement to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Philippians%203:14&amp;version=MSG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippians:<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Friends, don\u2019t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I\u2019ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward\u2014to Jesus. I\u2019m off and running, and I\u2019m not turning back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">&#8211; Phil. 3:14 MSG<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Search for meaning\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fD1512_XJEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>About Viktor Frankl:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Viktor Frankl\u2019s theory and work originated from his experiences in Nazi death camps.\u00a0\u00a0 By observing those who survived and those who didn&#8217;t, \u00a0Frankl noted that people who had hopes of being reunited with loved ones, or who had projects they felt a need to complete, or who had great faith, tended to have a better chance of surviving than those who had lost all hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Frankl termed his form of therapy logotherapy, its root, logos in Greek translates as word, speech, or meaning.\u00a0\u00a0 Frankl focused on the term &#8216;meaning&#8217; but the other definitions influenced it. Where Freud thought that pleasure was the root of all human motivation, and Adler asserted that power is the chief motivator, Frankl\u2019s Logotherapy suggests that a sense of meaning motivates humans. People are motivated, inspired by meaning more than pleasure or power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Source: http:\/\/webspace.ship.edu\/cgboer\/frankl.html<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To Ponder:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Where do you find meaning for yourself?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">What are you aiming at?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Who is one person whose values, character and vision that you respect?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">From their values, can you surmise what is meaningful to them?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">What is it about these you respect?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How do you see values, virtue, and character-forming your life?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How do you see them as reflecting meaning in your life?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In what simple ways can you take deliberate steps towards cultivating meaning in your own life?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fascinating 1972 video clip of Viktor Frankl, filmed in Toronto, Canada.\u00a0 In this video, Frankl is calling humanity to aim to a higher standard, to pick a target beyond ourselves and while we may fall short, he argues we will reach further or closer to wholeness than if we aimed for something less.\u00a0\u00a0 In&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,38],"tags":[209,365,467],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soul-significance","category-significant-sustenance","category-video-2","tag-goals","tag-meaning","tag-significance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}