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What is Intentional Living?
Create the life you’ve always wanted
Be More Mindful. Cultivate Intention. Accept What You Cannot Control. Accept Responsibility. Be Compassionate. Be Healthy. Love Yourself. Love Others. Get Right With Life.
Create the life you’ve always wanted
Be More Mindful. Cultivate Intention. Accept What You Cannot Control. Accept Responsibility. Be Compassionate. Be Healthy. Love Yourself. Love Others. Get Right With Life.
Manage your world
Building a house with broken tools won’t get you very far. Our thoughts are the tools we use to understand and manage the world around us. Mindfulness can help you sharpen old tools as well as discover brand new ones.
Manage your world
Building a house with broken tools won’t get you very far. Our thoughts are the tools we use to understand and manage the world around us. Mindfulness can help you sharpen old tools as well as discover brand new ones.
See yourself the right way
Your perspective is your reality. Some of our limitations come from having an unhealthy view of who you are as a person and what you can offer others. Several mindfulness practices help reshape our perspective of ourselves which empowers us to be who we truly are.
See yourself the right way
Your perspective is your reality. Some of our limitations come from having an unhealthy view of who you are as a person and what you can offer others. Several mindfulness practices help reshape our perspective of ourselves which empowers us to be who we truly are.
From The Blog
Lessons from 2020
Lessons from 2020 I don't have a desire to do the whole end-of-the-year accomplishments thing in 2020. If you’ve followed the blog or podcast this year, or if you follow me on Instagram, you know that 2020 has not been as difficult for my family and me as it has for...
Your Complete Guide to Dealing with Difficult People
How Do We Deal with Difficult People This is a topic I have spent a lot of time talking to people about over the past few years. I used to work as a counselor at a small private university. Having difficult conversations with difficult people would come up every year...
The Most Difficult Thing in the World
Mindfulness and Letting Things Be Let’s look at some of the things people tell me they are looking for in a mindfulness practice: CalmPeaceJoyHappinessFreedom from difficult emotions Now let’s look at some of the most common words and concepts associated with...
6 Simple Self-Care Tips for When Things are Overwhelming.
I think the self-care tips on this list are available to most everybody, but please feel free to change and adapt them according to your specific limitations/environment/situation. This was written specifically for the time under quarantine, but I think it is useful...
Starving to Death Instead of Drowning: Mindfulness and Ethics
Mindfulness and Ethics Mindfulness can be defined as a nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. This sounds simple, and it is, but it’s also super not-simple. There’s a lot that goes into returning to our most natural state being, especially in a very unnatural...
Mindfulness
Mindfulness, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Over the last few years, I’ve written a bunch of words (around 400k), made a bunch of podcast episodes, led a bunch of groups, had a few speaking engagements, and made a small number of videos, and almost all of this was about...
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