When you become intentional about what you want in life.. MAGIC HAPPENS.
The irony is that despite this fact most of us (for a large part of our lives) live an UN — INTENTIONAL life. We let things happen to us instead of making things happen. This is the reason we are STUCK in:
- Communities we feel we don’t belong to
- Relationships we don’t feel good about
- Jobs we don’t enjoy
- Unhealthy lifestyle
- Habits that do us more harm than good
- Difficulties with parenting
And so on….
This is because right from our childhood we are taught LIFE IS LINEAR.. focus on academics, get a job, marry, settle, raise kids…whereas in reality
life is anything but linear…
there are no straight ways or easy choices, things don’t go as planned, people and values don’t align and relationships don’t work, things constantly CHANGE…so on and so forth!!
Do not teach your child all things linear.. teach them to embrace NON LINEAR!! Teach them to be intentional about their thoughts, choices and actions!!
Becoming intentional comes with a resolve, practice and commitment.. and it brings with itself CHANGE.. which most people don’t like…but when that happens .. it is a game changer!!
When we become intentional we start to look for answers to our questions, solutions to the problems and that is when action happens and results start to show..
Being Intentional is about knowing what you want and then taking consistent action to get that..and it could apply to any aspect of your life..knowing what you want in your job, knowing what kind of people you want to hang out with, knowing what you want from a relationship. Pick any area and start being INTENTIONAL about it.
Becoming intentional is just like any other social and emotional learning skill…nobody is born with it..it needs to be learnt..it takes time, practice and CONSISTENT action taking. Hence it is important to sow the seeds of social emotional learning (SEL) in children early on during childhood so that they grow up into adults who are RESILIENT, MINDFUL, RESPECTFUL AND WHO CARE!
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