🏔 Living an Intentional Life

What does it mean to be intentional?

Ok, now what does it actually, physically look like to be intentional?

Today, we’re getting intentional - not only with how we live our lives, but also with how compact and practical this edition is going to be.

So without further ado…

Have y’all ever seen Alice in Wonderland? There’s a scene in that movie that has been pretty damn formative for me…

(I probably think about that movie more than any grown man should, but eh, here we are.)

In the scene, Alice comes to a fork in the road and she’s not sure which way to go. But lucky her, there appears to be a cat in a nearby tree, so she decides to ask the cat (makes sense).

The lesson here is obvious. In order to make good decisions - because we all want to make good decisions - we have to know the why behind the decision!

The older I get, the more I realize that the default setting for most people’s level of intentionality is equivalent to someone who is drunk, in the backseat of a taxi cab, being driven around anywhere the world wants to take them. Sure, they want to get somewhere, but they never truly define where, and therefore, never get there.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be driven around… I want to be in the driver’s seat!

When I met Tim Tebow, he told a story that, honestly, has changed life.

Do you know what my greatest fear is?

(I swear, this isn’t some made up line for a newsletter. This actually wakes me up at night.)

My greatest fear is to live a good life.

I don’t want a good life, because as I sit at a coffee shop writing this, I’m sure the person to my left would say they live a “good life,” but I also just heard them say “I can’t believe I have to go back to work on Monday.”

Same with the person on my right - they look kinda sorta content, but the words “I like my job, but...” just came out of their mouth.

I don’t want any “buts” at the end of my life… and here’s what I’m doing about it:

Let’s Get Hippy Dippy

Alright, so now that I’ve ranted and we’ve hammered home the facts that:

• It’s 1,000x easier to be unintentional than it is to be intentional

• None of us want to live unintentionally

it’s time to get practical… What are we going to do with this information?

I’m a firm believer that living intentionally requires you to have a vision for your life - otherwise we end up like Alice, listening to a damn cat in a tree. And the best tool that I’ve found to get stated down that path comes from a book called “The Wise Investor” by Rich Fettke.

In the book, Rich provides a guided visualization. It takes 10 minutes and you should make time for it. I’ve never met anyone who regretted doing this.

All you have to do is:

1. Click the orange button below

2. Scroll down to “Future Self (Audio)”

3. Listen to Rich’s sooooothing voice and follow his instructions

4. Optional: When you’re done, respond to this email telling me how it went!!!

(You should also read the book. It’s a top-5 book all time for me and is still the only book I’ve ever read in one sitting. You can get it here.)

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