A meaningful life is not just a random collection of unrelated events. A meaningful life is like a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. It has a direction. The events that make it up have an inner consistency. What happens at the beginning of the story lays the foundation for what happens later. And, like a story, it unfolds for a reason, with a purpose in mind. In the end, it all makes sense.

In the story that is your life, you are both character and author. As author you have a plot in mind, and you create circumstances that give your character opportunities to advance the plot in the direction you wish it to go. As the character, you have free will. When opportunities are presented to advance the plot, you have the power to decide whether or not to accept the author's direction. 

As long as you (as character) exercise your free will to ignore or decline what you are meant to be doing, the plot does not advance. While the author cannot force the character to take a particular path, the author can ensure that the alternative routes are dead ends and that similar opportunities to advance the plot are offered again and again. If fate seems to dictate that your plans never work out, if similar issues and circumstances keep resurfacing in your life, it is fair to assume that you have been rejecting opportunities to get on to the next chapter in your life.

You get on with your life when you (as character) realize what you (as author) are asking of yourself, and give in, when you learn that the reason you are given your free will is to surrender to your soul’s desire, when you learn that your pain and your suffering arise out of your resistance to doing what you are meant to be doing.

The implication is that you are not here just to do what you (as character) feel like doing. You are here to notice and respond to what you (as author) are asking of yourself. When you do respond, you will feel that enthusiasm, energy, excitement and fulfillment that comes from doing what you are meant to be doing.