The process
IDEAL
A framework for planning success and deliberate development — deciding where you are going, how you will get there, and how you will keep improving.
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Live by design.
We are building the ideas, tools and community for deliberate living — helping people close the gap between who they are and who they intend to be.
01 Think deliberately02 Act intentionally03 Learn from life04 Keep becoming01 Think deliberately02 Act intentionally03 Learn from life04 Keep becoming
The proposition
A life should not happen by accident.
Meaningful Ventures, Inc. exists to teach and sustain the discipline of deliberate living.
01Know what matters.
02Choose what you intend to create.
03Turn intention into deliberate action.
04Learn from the life those actions produce.
Original intellectual property
One process. One practice.
Two complementary ideas sit at the center of the work.
The practice
Meaningful
A daily practice for sustaining intentional living — acting on what matters, noticing what those actions reveal, and learning from the life you are actually living.
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Where the work began
The process came first.
IDEAL was introduced in Achieve, Steven Robert Young's book on development and success. The Meaningful Project extends that work from the process of achievement into the continuing practice of living deliberately.
The story of IDEAL →The larger architecture
A life's work, built in layers.
The destination is not a single app or a collection of disconnected products. It is a connected ecosystem in which each part deepens the same discipline.
Original frameworks and writing that give deliberate living a clear language and structure.
A daily tool that helps people turn intention into something observable and repeatable.
Books, courses and teaching that help people apply the work more deeply.
People learning from their own lives and from others committed to the same practice.
Eventually, real-world experiences that bring the community and ideas together.
Now building
The Meaningful Project.
A global platform for deliberate living, anchored by a daily practice tool and designed to grow into learning, community and gathering.
Close the gap between who you are and who you intend to be.