A sense of life purpose promotes physical, mental, and spiritual health. People who seek meaning beyond themselves are healthier, happier, and live longer. It’s vital to our well-being that we maintain strong feelings of purpose and community. For some people, life purpose is a spiritual concept, or has a religious dimension. For others, it’s a more secular notion, a need to be valued as a member of a family or group. Not everyone feels the need to name their life purpose but everyone needs to be needed. Purpose is fundamental. Mattering, ultimately, matters. As we mature through the phases of our life, experiencing various levels of psychological, emotional and, ultimately, spiritual growth, we may come to think more deeply about our life purpose and find ourselves yearning for deeper levels of meaning. Many people, at some phase of their lives, feel stuck, going nowhere, drifting without direction, wondering “what is the point of it all?” Here are three quick ways to unlock the power of purposeful aging and answer that question. 1. Choose to age purposefully. Consider choosing a new mindset – that of “aging purposefully” rather than “having a purpose.” Aging purposefully means choosing how you will use your