{"id":7077777,"date":"2026-10-06T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7077777"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:05:18","slug":"six-pillar-roadmap-for-how-to-move-from-merely-surviving-to-truly-mattering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7077777","title":{"rendered":"Six-pillar Roadmap For How To Move From Merely Surviving To Truly Mattering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Question: There is so much<br \/>\nto learn from your book. What are the best first steps a reader should take,<br \/>\nbeyond the One Small Steps recommended in the book, to incorporate the<br \/>\nlearnings into their lives?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Miles<\/b>: I would start by resisting the<br \/>\ntemptation to change everything at once. The first step is to become more aware<br \/>\nof where you are experiencing a Mattering Gap\u2014the distance between what you are<br \/>\ngiving and how significant you feel while giving it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I suggest asking yourself six<br \/>\nquestions through the lens of the M.A.T.T.E.R. Framework:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Meaning<\/b>: Can I see how what I<br \/>\ndo contributes to something that matters?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Autonomy<\/b>: Where am I acting<br \/>\nmore like an executor than an author of my own life?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Trust<\/b>: Where am I withholding<br \/>\na truth, from someone else or from myself?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Time<\/b>: Does my calendar<br \/>\nreflect what I say matters most?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Energy<\/b>: What consistently<br \/>\ngives me energy, and what continually extracts it?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Reciprocity<\/b>: What am I<br \/>\ngiving, and what am I receiving in return?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Then don&#8217;t try to fix all<br \/>\nsix. Identify the one that is most out of alignment and create one piece of<br \/>\nevidence that you can change it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">If time is the problem,<br \/>\nreclaim 10 minutes for something that matters. If autonomy is the problem, make<br \/>\none decision you have been unnecessarily waiting for someone else to make. If<br \/>\ntrust is the problem, have the conversation you&#8217;ve been avoiding. If energy is<br \/>\nthe problem, eliminate one unnecessary energy drain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The goal isn&#8217;t simply<br \/>\ninsight. The goal is evidence. We change our lives when our intentions<br \/>\nrepeatedly become evidence that our voice matters, our time matters, our energy<br \/>\nmatters, and our contribution matters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Question: How best during<br \/>\na performance review can a business leader make an employee feel like he\/she<br \/>\nmatters?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Miles<\/b>: The biggest mistake a leader can<br \/>\nmake is treating the performance review as a transaction: here is what you<br \/>\naccomplished, here is where you fell short, and here is what I need from you<br \/>\nnext year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Instead, use the review as an<br \/>\nopportunity to help the person see that they are known, valued, and that their<br \/>\ncontributions matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I would ask five questions:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">What are you most proud of<br \/>\naccomplishing this year?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">What part of your work gave<br \/>\nyou the most energy?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Where did you feel you made<br \/>\nthe greatest difference?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">What is getting in the way of<br \/>\nyou doing your best work?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">And perhaps most importantly:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">What can I do as your leader<br \/>\nto help you grow and contribute at a higher level?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Then listen without<br \/>\nimmediately turning the answers into action items.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Mattering is not the same as<br \/>\npraise. Someone can receive an excellent performance review and still feel<br \/>\ninvisible. People feel that they matter when they know their contribution is<br \/>\nseen, their perspective is valued, their development matters, and their presence<br \/>\nis more than the output they produce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">One of the simplest things a<br \/>\nleader can do is be specific. Don&#8217;t simply say, &#8216;You&#8217;re a great contributor.&#8217; Tell someone exactly what changed because of their contribution and who<br \/>\nbenefited from it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Meaning turns a task into a<br \/>\ncontribution, and specificity makes that contribution visible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">And leaders should remember<br \/>\nthat the performance review itself is only one moment. If someone has to wait<br \/>\nsix months to find out whether their work matters, the organization is missing<br \/>\nhundreds of opportunities to provide that evidence along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Question: As someone<br \/>\ncontemplates their death, how should they relate mattering to leaving a legacy?<br \/>\nOr don&#8217;t those correlate?<\/b><b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Miles<\/b>: I think they correlate, but they are<br \/>\nnot the same thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Legacy asks what remains<br \/>\nafter we&#8217;re gone. Mattering asks what becomes different because we&#8217;re here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">And there&#8217;s an important<br \/>\ndistinction between the two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Research by Tom Gilovich and<br \/>\nShai Davidai found that when people reflect on their greatest regrets, they are<br \/>\nmuch more likely to regret not becoming the person they hoped to become than<br \/>\nfailing to meet the obligations they felt they should have met. In other words,<br \/>\nwe can spend a lifetime becoming who we think we&#8217;re supposed to be while moving<br \/>\nfurther away from who we actually hoped to become.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">That connects deeply with<br \/>\nwhat I call the Slow Fade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Most people disappear from<br \/>\ntheir own lives incrementally. We take the promotion. We accept another<br \/>\nresponsibility. We become indispensable. We keep saying yes because other<br \/>\npeople need us. We become very good at being the person everyone else needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">And then one day we look up<br \/>\nand realize, &#8216;I&#8217;ve become very successful at being needed. But have I<br \/>\nbecome the person I wanted to be?&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">That&#8217;s where I think<br \/>\nmattering changes the conversation about legacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">If we&#8217;re only thinking about<br \/>\nlegacy, we can become preoccupied with what we&#8217;ll leave behind: the company we<br \/>\nbuilt, the books we wrote, the awards we received, the money we accumulated, or<br \/>\nwhether people remember our name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">But mattering asks a more<br \/>\nimmediate and human question: &#8216;Who is different because I am here?&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Maybe it&#8217;s a child who<br \/>\ndeveloped confidence because you believed in them. Maybe it&#8217;s an employee who<br \/>\nfound their voice because you gave them an opportunity. Maybe it&#8217;s a friend who<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t feel alone because you stayed. Maybe it&#8217;s a community that became stronger<br \/>\nbecause you contributed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Those things may never appear<br \/>\nin an obituary. But they are forms of legacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">So, when I think about my own<br \/>\nmortality, I don&#8217;t want my primary question to be, &#8216;What will people remember<br \/>\nabout me?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">I want it to be: &#8216;Did I use<br \/>\nthe life I was given to make a meaningful difference while I was here\u2014and did I<br \/>\nbecome the person I was capable of becoming?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Because ultimately, legacy is<br \/>\nwhat remains. Mattering is what happens while we&#8217;re here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">And perhaps the greatest<br \/>\nlegacy is not that people remember your name, but that they carry something<br \/>\nforward because your life touched theirs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Question: What would<br \/>\nit look like for workplaces, schools, or communities to truly prioritize<br \/>\nmattering?<br \/><\/b><b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/b><b>Miles<\/b>: Prioritizing mattering requires a<br \/>\nshift in how we lead and how we design the environments people move through<br \/>\nevery day. It means moving away from treating people as problems to solve\u2014and<br \/>\ntoward creating the conditions where they can actually thrive.<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: There is so much to learn from your book. 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