Author: JMP

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”  How do you know what the right thing is? What guides your decisions and choices? Gut? Logic? Facts? Majority Opinion? Whatever seems right at the time?   Did you know you already make many of your decisions and choices based on something inherently a part of you that you probably don’t consciously consider near enough?  I’m talking about your Value System-Your VALUES. VALUES are “important…

Once you are more intentional about the day to day decisions and choices you make, you can turn your eyes and thoughts to the grander questions, choices, and decisions you might want to face.  Like why am I here and what is my purpose--if you haven’t already? We call this pursuit, the PURPOSE-EMPOWERED LIFE. When we truly know our purpose and calling, we are empowered to live life to the fullest every day in the purpose, power, and peace of knowing we know.  This ‘knowing’ is like putting a rudder in the water of our sailboat, or yacht :), and…

There are two major sections to PURPOSE.  The first helps us make better everyday decisions by making them ‘with and on purpose’.  This we call living a ‘Purpose-Decisive’ Life. ‘With’ purpose means to have a specific reason for doing something, and ‘on’ purpose means to make that decision deliberately without hesitation or delay once you know what you want to do and why you want to do it. If you are not making purposeful decisions, then you must be making most of them either by default or reaction.  There are many internal and external factors which influence our decision-making. Some…

Now that you have laid the foundations for your new more Intentional life, it is time to get to work.  HA! We’ve only just begun! We have a mantra to remember: Know It!, Plan It!, Be It!. First, there are things you need to know, understand and integrate that will be the basis for your planning and being more Intentional.  They are your PURPOSE, VALUES, and VISION. Here, in the two phases of PURPOSE, you discover why you are here and how you can make more purposeful decisions in your life every day. An Intentional life is guided by your…