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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
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...
Concentration
The Value of Concentration Concentration isn't something we hear a lot about these days. It's not really cool in a world geared toward multitasking (which isn't real) and distraction (which is actually really stressful). Mindfulness is all the rage these days. I don’t...
Perfection and Never Doing Anything
At some point in my life, I got tired of being recognized as a loser, so instead of sabotaging situations that intimidated me (like getting thrown off the track team for smoking), I began to hide behind perfection. Here's how you do it: State a goal. Let’s use...
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