Intentional Living

Hello again my compilation of inner thoughts.

Today I want to rant about intentional living.

For the past one year, I have been on autopilot in terms of going through life. Before I knew it, one whole year has passed. One whole year that I've spent my days and nights in doing this work. To which the question of "Was your time spent on this worth it?", I couldn't really give a positive answer.

So I'm pulling my shit together now and starting to take control of my life. To start doing things  more intentionally and not to just reluctantly do it while my mind flew off on autopilot. I've got this inspiration after watching some YouTube videos on powerful small habits and podcast about designing your life's course. I have realized now that living intentionally, is truly living. If I dictate the actions of what I'm going to do in life, I will feel more in control. And I don't mean it as simple as you deciding to do something with just some rough ideas in mind on when/how to do it. I mean it as incorporating some elements of specific planning prior to doing something. That way, we will intentionally decide and chart the course of our life.

I've recently started this intentional living mindset in my life. And I quickly realize that the general idea is all about balancing the things that you have to do and the things that you want to do. I realize that if I could balance out carrying the actions of these two things, I will achieve a sense of satisfaction because:

• By settling the task that I have to do, I'll enjoy a sense of productivity and accomplishment.
• By doing the things that I want to do, I'll enjoy the satisfaction of joy of broadening the activities in my life. Afterall, I feel like our identity is tied to the things that we do in life. If my life just revolves around work, I'll feel imprisoned as work is, at least for now, something that I have no control over. It's all just for the money. Whereas other elements of life such as health, community, extended knowledge, family and etc are the areas in life that could give a strong support to our pillars of life.

So that's my routine for now. Every morning I will list out the things that I have to do and the things that I want to do. Clearly my job has the higher priority. So my daily goal is always finish of my responsibility and carry out other activities that I find joy in doing. To find the balance between the two is the whole goal of intentional living. 

If I can get it right, I will truly live.

Thank you internet for allowing me to put my thoughts here so it'll forever be floating in the cloud as binary bits.