What if intention isn't about achieving—it's about being? In this episode, Lu explores the difference between intention and goals, intention and expectation, and how living with intention requires courage to let things fall apart. She shares personal examples from daily life—preparing a meal with what she already has, bowing after hot yoga in gratitude—to demonstrate how mindful frugality leads to gratitude, centeredness, and appreciation. This is about choosing direction, trusting the process, and savoring every experience as if it might be the last.

SHOW NOTES:

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Intention vs. goal: compass not map
• Intention vs. expectation: freedom vs. control
• The courage to risk: being ready for things to fall apart
• The meal: using what you have, savoring what's here
• The frugal mind is a grateful mind, a centered mind, an appreciated mind
• The hot yoga bow: gratitude for what the body allows
• The practice: three morning questions (Who do I want to BE? What can I CONTRIBUTE? What will I LET GO?)

QUOTE: "Intention makes the ordinary extraordinary."

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RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Lu's first documentary: Take a Bow: The Ingrid Clarfield Story (2011)