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Live with Intentionality: 21 Practices to Help You Build an Intentional Life
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Living an intentional life can be challenging. Busyness, societal expectations, and lack of focus get in our way. The best type of life, though, is a life that we deliberately choose to live. This short book will teach you 21 strategies for intentionality. Drawing on the ideas of Fumio Sasaki, Charles Duhigg, Tim Ferriss, and others, Jonn Barren provides insights to improve your use of time, energy, and money.
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Live with Intentionality - Jonn Barren
Live with Intentionality
21 Practices to Help You Build an Intentional Life
By Jonn Barren
All rights reserved © 2022 Jonn Barren
Live with Intentionality
21 Practices to Help You Build an Intentional Life
By Jonn Barren
All rights reserved © 2022 Jonn Barren
978-1-387-55829-2
Imprint: Lulu.com
Contents
Introduction
1. Do not be busy.
2. Track your time.
3. Waste time intentionally.
4. Address information overload.
5. Match relationships with intentions.
6. Learn to say no.
7. Try minimalism.
8. Clarify your values.
9. Decide what you like.
10. Keep a journal.
11. Question yourself.
12. Understand your personality.
13. Design your daily routine.
14. Spend more time planning.
15. Try top-of-mind brainstorming.
16. Design habits.
17. Start with micro habits.
18. Read books to support your goals.
19. Change the way you talk to yourself.
20. Use an A.M. handbook.
21. Develop a contrary attitude.
Conclusions
Introduction
Intentionality is a key to a happy life because it means that we are in control of our lives and doing what we want to do. To live intentionally, we must ensure that what we are doing at any given moment (with our time, money, and energy) is a decision we are making ourselves.
If your intention is to write the great American novel, then I hope you succeed. If your intention is to watch every sitcom episode made in the 1980s, then it is your life, so that is just fine, too. Any ethical intention that you choose is acceptable. Your life is yours to use as you please.
What is not acceptable is a life in which outside forces (e.g., social media companies, fast food restaurants, or
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