Living Intentionally: 3 Steps to Gaining Agency
Are you getting all you want? Are you achieving all of your goals? Are you living a fully intentional life? If you are, I salute you. I can’t make the same claim. I do aspire to live more intentionally, though – I am an aspiring intentionalist. To live a more intentional life, I constantly strive to gain greater agency, the quality of living intentionally. In doing that, it helps to take the following 3 steps: 1. Evaluating reality clearly, to 2. Make effective decisions, that 3. Achieve our short and long-term goals. Evaluating reality well involves gaining a thorough and accurate understanding of the situation and the full extent of our options within it. Four factors obstruct our ability on this front, including: • Social prescriptions about appropriate ways of perceiving reality; • Internalized preconceptions based on our previous experiences; • Thinking errors that our brain makes due to faulty wiring;