Welcome to the place that will help you live With Intent. Here are the basic Principles of this site:
Site Principles
- You are 100% a result of your actions.
Everything that you are today is a result of your actions and your choices. Life may have been kind or harsh to you, but your happiness is determined by how you react to things, not the things which have happened to you. That doesn't mean it is your fault, but it does mean that change is in your power. Most of our decisions are not made consciously and we are "lucky" or "unlucky" in the attitudes we adopt, more or less by chance. The purpose of with-intent.org is to give you a place to re-examine the decisions of your past and make decisions that suit your goal. Life should be lived WITH INTENT, rather than by happenstance.
- You deserve to be happy and successful, however you define those things.
You, and every other person, deserve good results. Every person has a personal worth that is incomparable. Not every person has done the personal work to make it easy for them to keep those things that define happiness and success for them. Many don't even know what constitutes happiness for themselves. I can tell you what it means to me, but I can't tell you what it means to you. Find your things and start working toward them
- There are tools and practices that will increase your chances.
There are tools out there to help you first define and then find you happiness. The details are different for each person but the process is similar.
- Figure out what you want.
- Figure out where you are.
- Pick some actions to move you in the right direction.
- Move.
- See if it is working.
- Go back to three, with an occasional revisits of 1 & 2.
- Simple does not mean easy.
Many of us have a pretty good idea of what to do. That doesn't mean we are doing it. It aslo doesn't mean it is easy. Following a specific exercise, training, or diet routine can be simple. They do require changes in our life that are not always easy to make. Just because the answer is a few words does not mean it will be easy to do.
- Always work with the Minimum Effective Dose
The Minimum Effective Dose (MED) is the least amount of work to accomplish a specific goal. We all have too many things in our lives. To make progress we will need to add some and remove some others. The idea is to do the least amount of work to accomplish our side goals, such as fitness or diet, while focusing our main efforts in other areas, like relationships or career. Your goals may be different from these, but the idea is to make the main thing the main thing, and just do enough of the others to get your goals met.
This site is broken into several categories
Live With Intent Things to help you make the important decisions and be more efficient in meetimg your goals
Love With Intent Relationships are another area where people fall into old patterns, often without consideration. What do you want? How do you behave?
Eat With Intent Nutrition advice has been the province of bad science for a long time. What are the newest ideas of healthy eating?
Move With Intent What does it mean to be fit? For what activity do you want to be fit? Exercise and movement are your friends.
Behind the scenes What are the technical and business underpinnings of this site? Transparency is our friend.