How to Find More Meaning, Peace, and Happiness in Your Life with Chris Templeton
By Miri Lenoff
·June 5, 2026
Most people spend more time planning their next vacation than they spend thinking about what actually makes their life feel meaningful. And then they wonder why something feels off.
Chris Templeton has spent years helping people close that gap. His work centers on a simple but profound premise: peace, love, and happiness are not destinations. They are choices you make in how you move through each day.
Why Meaning Feels So Elusive
Meaning is not a grand revelation that arrives one morning. It is built through consistent, deliberate attention to what actually matters to you. The problem is that most people are too busy reacting to their lives to ever stop and design them.
Chris often points out that the absence of meaning does not usually look like despair. It looks like numbness. Going through the motions. A creeping sense that something is missing even when everything looks fine on the outside.
The solution is not dramatic. It is intentional.
The Three Questions That Change Everything
Chris uses a three-question model to help people reconnect with what matters. The questions are deceptively simple.
First: what do I actually want my life to feel like? Not what do I want to have or achieve. What do I want the texture of my daily experience to be?
Second: what is currently getting in the way of that feeling? Not what problems do I have. Specifically, what is blocking the experience I just described?
Third: what is one thing I could do differently starting today? Not a five-year plan. One thing. Today.
These three questions, when answered honestly and revisited regularly, do something remarkable. They move meaning from an abstract aspiration into a daily practice.
Peace, Love, and Happiness Are Not Rewards
One of the most common traps Chris sees is people treating wellbeing as something they will earn once they hit the next milestone. Once I get the promotion. Once the kids are older. Once I lose the weight.
This is a recipe for a life spent always almost there.
The shift Chris encourages is to treat peace, love, and happiness as inputs rather than outputs. You do not get them by achieving things. You bring them with you, and they change the quality of everything you do.
This is not toxic positivity. It is a practical orientation. People who show up to their work and relationships with a baseline of inner peace are more effective, more present, and more satisfied than people who are chasing those states as future rewards.
How to Start
Answer the three questions. Write the answers down. Notice what comes up when you try. The resistance itself is often information.
And then pick one small thing you can do today that brings your actual life a little closer to the life you just described.
That is where meaning lives. Not in the future. In the gap between where you are and what you choose to do next.
Watch the full conversation with Chris Templeton on the Known Success Coaches Spotlight.