Being Intentional

What if you only lived for one day. One day to do or say or experience what life is on Earth. One day to see and create and discover; to accomplish something purposeful. It is a crazy idea, one that is not an actuality in this life, but maybe the lesson of it should be a movement for this generation. Think about it. If you had only one day to live,what would it be that you did within those 24 hours? Cure cancer, invent time travel, scale the Great Wall, perform in front of a live audience, what would it be that you would do. If you knew you had a 24 hour period to live out, every second, minute and action would be intentional. Intentionality is a lesson I learned a year ago from a very wise person of leadership in my life. Intentionality is, in my opinion, something that people my age seem to be generally lacking. Being intentional means to do with purpose, existing solely for a specific and deliberate reason and outcome. Bringing intentionality into everything you do, from your words to your relationships, and to your actions and your motivations, bring then purpose into life. This lesson of intentionality was first focused in my life in order to mold me to be a stronger leader, but this lesson of going into everything with a pre thought purpose attains to every minuscule detail in my life. From being aware of how I treat new people and how I welcome them into a situation, how I respond to a friend or family member in a difficult conversation, and to how I choose to live my life based on knowing that it influences others, being intentional has the exponential power to produce change and growth in my life. Being purposeful in my life is an example that also indirectly affects those that are in my life in major ways. If you entered every conversation with the sole intention to grow the other person spiritually or relationally, to serve them and focus on them, imagine what this generation could accomplish. Each of our figurative "one days" would add up to the end of bullying, drugs and drinking related habits, negative body issues, abusive relationships, and all the other hardships that seem to plague people of our age and younger. These 24 hours, accomplished with full intentionality, would positively change and move our generation and those older and younger. Now these goals may be of an extreme nature, but implementing a purpose driven intentional way of living, with some hard work, can be the future.