What is your goal this year? A friend asked. “I will be intentional this year I responded. How? He asked again.
You see, our lives is clustered with dozens of options from choosing whether to wear a red or yellow shirt to what we eat and do. We have limitless choices every day of our life. Some big and others small.
In our bit to be intentional with our lives, we have the obligation of making one out of hundreds of options in everything we do in life and believe me when I say that it’s not fun.
Sometimes, it feels easy and less stressful to just go with the flow. To carry whatever comes around after all, a lot of people are doing it. But I don’t think that is the best thing for you or anyone in life.
Other times we just choose the conventional way of doing things, mostly because it makes it much easier not thinking about those options before us but it’s not necessarily the best choice for us either.
You see, our picture of living an intentional life is mostly of being organized and choosing to make only those choices that will serve us well. But intentional life have very little or nothing to do with the choices we make in life.
Living an intentional life as someone once put it is all about knowing why you do what you do and why you don’t do the ones you don’t do.
There are no particular set of choices that characterizes an intentional life. It’s all about understand the reasons behind those choices. Why do you choose a red shirt instead of a yellow or blue one, why do you go to the places you go and do the things you do?
Being intentional is about thinking of the decisions you are making, it’s all about understanding the consequences of your choices before making them.
Being intentional with this very year is not about waking up and making decisions, it’s about making choices and evaluating them throughout your life.
It’s all about being flexible in your decision, going in line with your reasons rather than making choices and sticking to them. To review and analyze your own life in the light of your truth regardless of what others think or say.
Being intentional have to do with defining your values and living according to them. It’s about choosing what works for you, and not what others are doing.
Being intentional is about realizing that life is not a one route journey. That there are many ways to get to your destination and that it’s best to choose what works for you and not necessarily what works according to others, books or teachers.
In all, living an intentional life grants you the freedom to make time for the things that really matters in your life as well as helps you choose the route that best serve you rather than wondering aimlessly in another’s route.
This year, I choose to be intentional. What about you?
Remember, you are the master of your fate
Kasie Samuel.
