Intentional Living with Kathy & Michael

What does this concept mean, that you are 100% responsible for everything in your life?  How can that possibly be true? It’s everywhere in the personal development literature.  In a nutshell it means that you create your life with your energy, words and actions and you are 100% responsible for that.  And while you cannot … Continue reading Episode 6: You are 100% Responsible for Everything in Your Life. Whaaat?

What happens when your intentional living plan doesn’t work for you?  It happens!  In this episode we look behind the plan for intentional living to discern what may be going on when your plan doesn’t work. The short answer is to look at what’s going on with your sense of control and autonomy and your … Continue reading Episode 5: When Things Go Wrong

Thanks for coming back to listen! In this episode, Kathy and Michael discuss daily rituals, habits and practices.  When you think about all the things that might work for you as daily practices, do you ever feel as though if you kept up with all of them you’d have no time for life?  Welcome to … Continue reading Episode 4: Daily Rituals, Habits and Practices to Support Your Intentional Life

  Welcome to the podcast!  In this episode Kathy and Michael discuss medium-term planning and evaluation tools to support your long-term vision.  Here are the key tools: Self Journal – Best Self Journal company offers beautiful physical journals that help you organize your efforts in 13-week chunks meant to be manageable and to keep yourself … Continue reading Episode 3: Medium-Term Planning Goals – From This Week to Your Intentional Future

Welcome back!  This short episode is an extension of the discussion in Episode 2 of long term planning and envisioning your future. This exercise invites you to envision what your funeral might look like – but don’t worry! If this idea makes you squeamish (Kathy: “uh-huh”) you can envision another different kind of end of … Continue reading Episode 2.1 – Long Term Planning – The (gulp) Funeral Exercise

Thanks to everyone who’s been listening and engaging!  Community is what makes this podcast joyful. Eva listened and commented that Kathy and Michael are “real people” talking about what makes life work for them.  Exactly! Che from Massachusetts had lots of glorious thoughts to share and also the great idea of developing a reading list … Continue reading Episode 2.2 – Listener Feedback

Welcome back!  Thanks for listening and engaging.  Your comments are welcome at trulyintentional@gmail.com.  Also see us on our Facebook community page Truly Intentional. In this episode, Kathy and Michael discuss specific tools and exercises to envision the intentional life you want.   Here are some key ideas and tools from the episode. Airport Exercise:  Michael … Continue reading Episode 2: Authoring Your Future – Tools for Imagining, Envisioning and Planning Your Intentional Life

Welcome! This is the first episode of Intentional Living with Kathy & Michael. In this first episode, Kathy and Michael introduce themselves and define and discuss intentional living:  taking control of your day to day life, the direction of your life and living less reactively.  Sound good?  Join in!  trulyintentional@gmail.com    Here are some of … Continue reading Episode 1: What is Intentional Living?