My word for 2023 - Mattering.

I've been working on my Year Compass (link here if you missed it - https://lnkd.in/ekfj7WXT). I've finally settled on my word for 2023.

Mattering means the extent to which we make a difference in the world around us. It's not just based on the facts though, it's about how we feel about our impact.

Mattering means you FEEL seen, FEEL valued and FEEL needed.

"We have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind. No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof. If no one turned around when we entered, answered when we spoke, or minded what we did, but if every person we met “cut us dead”, and acted as if we were non-existing things, a kind of rage and impotent despair would ere long well up in us, from which the cruelest bodily tortures would be a relief; for these would make us feel that, however bad might be our plight, we had not sunk to such a depth as to be unworthy of attention at all" (William James, 1890).

Let's not be in these depths William James described in the 1890s. Let's learn how to make sure people feel they matter.

#mattering #matteringatwork #wellbeing