Quotes About Intentionality

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

Only when you're willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

It's the opposite of people who live waiting for life to come to them. Then you're just a victim or you're a lottery winner, so I choose to live life with a plan or a goal. I lay out the steps to get there and then assess them constantly. But usually I only get a clear snapshot of my plan when I look in the rearview mirror and see what I did." - Beachbody CEO Carl Daikeler Excerpt From: Tony Horton. "The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life.

Have less; do less; say no.

The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver's seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice.

You may want to begin by asking yourself, "What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?" That will give you a good starting point for defining your standards.

Once I started planning purchases, the satisfaction of actually buying what I truly wanted helped tame my desires for the stupid little things I used to waste my money on.

To live an effective life, you have to turn your back on the things of the world

Our target as believers is to live an effective life, not just a long one

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?

Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.

We must discern what God calls us to accomplish rather than mindlessly adding on everything presented to us.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

Everything that we allow into our minds, hearts, and lives — everything that we spend our time and money on — has an impact on how we grow, or don't grow, spiritually.

Don't rush into a relationship for all the wrong reasons. Go slow into a relationship for all the right reasons.

Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.

Manage your life as you manage your money.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Within human luck is divine intentionality.

In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hold your own plans loosely and stay ready to submit to His. Consider them to be more important, more desirable than anything you could dream up on your own. He has come down to you with intentionality and purpose because He loves you and knows that you are never more secure than when you're in His will.