NickVenturella.com 10-8-23 - What are your intentions here?

Life is full of variables – good and bad – but how you navigate those variables to chart the most beneficial go-forward path for yourself is the real feat.

A lot of us, myself included, often fumble along and end up on a path almost by happenstance. 

Although, I’ve learned that being more intentional can yield better results. In fact, such intentionality can be the hope needed during the negative variables of life.

Beware: being intentional takes effort. It requires an investment in yourself.

Unfortunately, if you’re not willing to take the time to put in the effort to be intentional then you may often be dissatisfied with the variables your life throws at you. 

Or rather, you’ll simply be less prepared to handle the variables of life, especially the negative ones.

Taking time to step back, reflect on your past experiences, examine your current state, and envision a future you want, provides you invaluable self-awareness.

That self-awareness becomes a powerful foundation for intention, when you write it down and examine it against your own personal values so you can begin to decide what you want your future to look like (hint, hint – get writing).

The intention you’re creating is likely aspirational – it’s a positive ideal you’re always striving for, which internally has the power to motivate your decision-making to, consciously or subconsciously, rise to that ideal. 

It’s simply refining the clarity you have about yourself so you can apply that to the world at large. 

It’s having a constant that you can test life variables against. When you use your litmus test on life variables and the result is pointing positively toward your constant (your intention) then you’re likely managing, and/or working through, the variable in the best possible way for you.

Without a reasonably constant and clear intention it’s far harder to navigate the tough decisions in life.

What are your intentions for yourself?  Hit reply and let me know, or consume that question as rhetorical – up to you.

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Stay positive. Stay healthy. Be kind.Sincerely,Nick VenturellaStrategic/Creative ProfessionalNickVenturella.com