The Direction of Intention

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For the first 46 years of my life I got out of bed and reviewed my list of things I needed to do. Life was about checking things off of the list.
“Getting-through-the-list” thinking is rampant in our world, a useful frame of reference if you are a machine but not so much if you are corporeal and have a soul. I realized somewhere on this path that my frame of reference was the limiting factor in my quality of life. I’d mistakenly placed efficiency too high on my list of priorities. I’m good at checking things off of lists, quantity of outcome, doing stuff, is no problem. What about greater experience, deeper meaning, full spectrum of experience, what about quality of life?

For the past 5 years or so, I’ve been trying different strategies of entering the day. Now, I get up and ask myself, “What do I want to bring to this day?” You will not be surprised to know that my answer is never something quantifiable; I never say “more efficiency!” or “faster pace!” or “multi-tasking!” My answer is usually something like, “curiosity,” or “full presence,” “quiet” or “I want to bring the best of me (try quantifying that!).”

It also won’t surprise you to know that what I intend to bring is usually what I actually bring. It also won’t surprise you to know that my answer is never “fear” or “angst” or “self-doubt” or “anger” or “not enough time.” Those aspects occasionally show up but I have the perfect response: I ask myself, “Is this what I want to bring in to this moment?” If the answer is “no,” I bring something else.

It is not a small question when I ask you, “What do you bring?” Ask it of yourself for a while and you might just discover that you stop asking questions like, “Where’s the meaning in my life?”

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