July 28, 2021

144. "I'm Actively Creating The Life That I Want To Live!" - Intention of the Week

20 minutes

Hi my name is Ryan and welcome to the show! This Amazing Life encourages and inspires YOU, the listener, to take action so that you can live your own AMAZING LIFE!

Every week, I offer a new “Intention of the Week!” A tool, a mantra, or a guideline for you to use throughout your week on your own path to success.

This week’s Intention of the Week is "I'm Actively Creating The Life That I Want To Live!"

This week's IOTW reminds us of the power that comes from consciously and proactively living an intentional life. In our workouts this week week, we'll explore ways we can make this real and applicable for ourselves everyday.

The first thing that might be helpful to acknowledge is our relationship with time. We all have busy lives filled with schedules, routines, and even things that pop up we don't even plan for. Schedules and routines can be beneficial because they provide structure and help relieve some of the mental burden that comes with a lot of decision making. The question is, at what point are we strategically making smart decisions that enhance our lives versus going through the motions and living more on auto pilot.

This reminds me of two different supporting quotes I've seen recently: 'This isn't your practice life.' and 'Life is meant to be lived and not left on auto-pilot.' authors unknown.

How powerful and poignant are these? Regardless of religious perspectives or opinions, time is one of the most valuable resources that we have so why not invest it and make decisions that maximize our experience?

Let's move our attention to another key phrase in this week's IOTW: "actively creating," what does that mean to you?

To me, I believe it's a call to action for all of us to recognize and take ownership of the things we can positively affect with our time, energy, effort, or a little extra help. "To create" means to bring something into existence out of nothing. Now that we're here in this life together, what is it that you want to create, feel, learn, or try?

With our thoughts, words, actions, choices, relationships, the things we say yes to, and the things we say no to, they all add up and either help us move closer or further away from the type of life we want to live.

By actively participating in the process of exploration, decision making, growth, and fulfillment, it helps bring us closer and closer the fullest expression of what hopefully you believe is your own version of an amazing life.

And this brings me to the last point I want to touch on in the email: your hopes, dreams, goals, and ideas.

How often do we allow ourselves the opportunity to pause, reflect, examine, brainstorm, or even daydream about the type of life experience that we truly want to have? How often do we pick lofty goals that we are firmly committed to working towards versus settling for things that are more realistic? How often do we allow our inner child to take advantage of the wonder and beauty that exists in the world before the hard realities of "adulthood" bring us back down to planet Earth? Or how often do we listen to our own hearts and intuition versus allowing the opinions and beliefs of others to prevent us from making the best decision for ourselves?

Again, we acknowledge and accept that there are certainly things that will happen outside of our control. Once we've allowed that to hold true, the rest is up to us to take the lead : )

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By Ryan O'Neill

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