By Barbara Britt
Intentional Living simply means to live the life that you truly want, deliberately. A life by design of your choosing, rather than living a life that just ‘happens’ to you. It sounds wonderful and simple in theory, but of course there are barriers that need to be overcome, mainly our own thoughts. It is said that we can never out-perform our own beliefs and thoughts, and it’s even harder to out-perform the limitations we allow others to put on us.
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.” ― Anthon St. Maarten
What an unbelievable gift we received, when we understand that we can make the choice to create our best self. We even have the right and the opportunity to fail, get back up and make a difference anywhere we go. Setting the stage for progression is possible. Start first, with these three thoughts:
- Evaluate reality clearly. Give yourself uninterrupted private time to analyze what is going on outside of your thoughts, your social circle, your business, career and anything else that affects your life. Do explore your internal environment. What are your patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving? Charting and being aware of these patterns allow us to keep what is working and to develop healthy new habits for what is not working.
- Make effective decisions to reach your goals. Look at your options based on what you learned about your outer environment. You can change your thoughts, feelings and behaviors to help you design the kind of life you want. Know, you have options. Look at the pathways and choose the one that will make it possible to attain those goals.
- Achieve short and long-term goals. Understand that as you travel, it is beneficial to make changes along the way. Make yourself open to new information and situations. This is called growth.
Stay committed to reaching and growing your goals. Build your circle of influence and redefine it as you travel on your journey will enable you to live intentionally.
If you want to intentionally go into deeper understanding, please join me, for Women in Transition, a four-part series. The session will cover intentionality and you will gain the steps necessary to get you there. This program I can do in a seminar fashion or group setting. Email [email protected] or call 850-621-7709.
