You may have seen a video from me earlier this week talking about ‘Intentionality’ and the value it can have on your lives. My ‘One Word’ to focus on for 2019 is Forward, and I entered into this year knowing I wanted to do more. This had to be a year I stepped up in the speaking and training world and really put my voice out there. Believe it or not…that is not easy for me to do. Unless I have a stage or audience, I am not the one to speak up in a group. I like to think of myself as ‘quality over quantity’. I’ll never be the life of a party, but I definitely make an effort to have more personalized, one-on-one conversations with people.
The point is that change takes work. How many of us are willing to actually put in the work? As we get older, we realize there are certain personality traits that have changed or been added. Some of us throw our hands up and say ‘This is just who I am’ and others say ‘I’m going to actively work on this’. Which group do you fall into?
This adventure of life is not easy as we learn to navigate a world that can make us feel very anxious at times. Intentional actions must involve you taking what you want to do and moving it from the subconscious to the conscious where you think about it and train your brain to recognize certain triggers you may have…almost like an outer-body experience. When you cross this line, you have reached intentional thought and start to change patterns of behavior. This is going to take work, it won’t be easy, and you’ll probably fail many times….just the reality of the situation. However, the brain will recognize that you are trying to install new behaviors and slowly those will take over. Be persistent because we are our own worst enemy sometimes when it comes to change.
