Laura Berman Fortgang is a nationally renowned speaker and life coach．She

recently was ordained as an interfaith minister．She lives in Montclair,NewJersey

As a bestselling self-help author and a pioneer in the field of life coaching，

Laura Berman Fortgang has spent decades helping people figure out what they

want to do with their lives．And so it was a bit of a surprise when theme she

heard repeatedly from her clients emerged in her own thinking：her work didn’t feel

as “meaningful” to her as it had once felt．It was one of those big realizations people have from time to time．The funny thing was, it turned out that the “solutions” to her problem were quite small．

In The Little Book on Meaning, Fortgang reveals that while our hunger for a

“meaningful” life can be enormous, our desire for meaning is usually satiated by bite—size morsels of meaning-the small，almost incidental events or “achievements” that make up the fabric of our lives．According to Fortgang，meaning is where you look for it, and through tenderly drawn stories from her own life and the lives of those around her, she shows readers how they too can peek around corners to discover the small elements of their lives that truly matter．Where are the easiest places to look? Fortgang takes readers through other “M words” beyond the godfather of them all-Meaning-that will serve as markers on the path．They include：