I love in your opening you call out INTENTIONALITY. I've seen this concept threading through several posts and I really believe one of the keys to all of this is to just be more intentional in what we do, and why we do it!
Intentional is my #1 growth word (a reminder to myself that I need to share my top ten growth words). This word came to me at the end of my "dark period" that followed my first retreat. I had been struggling for some time with feeling unable to keep up, and just feeling like I was _reacting_ to everything rather than having a plan for anything. I concluded that there had been too much auto-pilot in my life. Me doing things because that's what seemed like I was supposed to be doing. "Intentional" was my solution. My 2001 retreat was my Walden moment, and I am a better person for seeing that through. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to face only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn from what it had to teach, and not, when I came time to die, discover that I had not lived."
I love in your opening you call out INTENTIONALITY. I've seen this concept threading through several posts and I really believe one of the keys to all of this is to just be more intentional in what we do, and why we do it!
Intentional is my #1 growth word (a reminder to myself that I need to share my top ten growth words). This word came to me at the end of my "dark period" that followed my first retreat. I had been struggling for some time with feeling unable to keep up, and just feeling like I was _reacting_ to everything rather than having a plan for anything. I concluded that there had been too much auto-pilot in my life. Me doing things because that's what seemed like I was supposed to be doing. "Intentional" was my solution. My 2001 retreat was my Walden moment, and I am a better person for seeing that through. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to face only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn from what it had to teach, and not, when I came time to die, discover that I had not lived."