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    Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know
    Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know
    Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know
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    Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

    By Mary Anne Radmacher

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    The 10 Essentials to Living Your Life

    “Live with intention, walk to the edge, listen hard, practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” ─Mary Ann Radmacher

    Discover what is important to you. More than three decades ago, noted author, artist and teacher Mary Anne Radmacher, was beginning her chosen path─to live with purpose, to make a difference. She lost a dear friend and she wrote these words “live with intention...”, which have appeared wrapped around mugs, on carry bags and journals, day planners, refrigerator magnets, and posters. In her book Live With IntentionRadmacher shares the ten qualities she considers essential to intentional living and offers you exercises, inspirations, and promises to help you find what's important in your life.

    Live a glorious, richer life. Live With Intention explores with you what it means to live each day with intention:

    • Understand what counts for you
    • Discover what will make your life richer
    • Determine how to make a difference
    • Realize what brings verve to every wonderful day

    Long after you've read this book cover-to-cover you'll be picking it up again and again. If you’ve enjoyed books such as Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer, Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer, or The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo; Mary Ann Radmacher’s Live With Intentionshould be your next must-read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherConari Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2010
    ISBN9781609253226
    Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know
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    Mary Anne Radmacher

    Mary Anne Radmacher is a writer and an artist. She conducts workshops on living a full, creative, balanced life; teaches Internet writing seminars; and works with individual clients. She has been writing since she was a child, and she uses her writing to explore symbols and find meaning. Among her special honors, she counts the respect of her peers and the friendship of children. She is the author of Lean Forward into Your Life and Live Boldly. She lives in the thriving university town of Gainesville, FL, in close proximity to amazing humans and fine dogs. Visit her online at www.maryanneradmacher.net.

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      Live with Intention - Mary Anne Radmacher

      If we do everything else but that one thing, we will be lost. And if we do nothing else but that one thing, we will have lived a glorious life.

      —Rumi

      This poem contains ten elements that summarize my one thing. How I want to live my life. When I ask people to identify ten components that enliven them, that improve their day, that make their heart sing … consistently they identify things amazingly close to the elements in Live with Intention. I love that the word intention has the ten just built right in!

      I take Rumi's reference to the one thing to mean the collection of elements, activities, attitudes, and actions that enliven and invigorate an intentional life.

      The number ten is a model here for that reason. You might have eleven. Or nine. The most significant aspect is not that you specifically identify ten things, but that you identify and remember what your core elements are. Remember and actively live with your intentions. Invite those things into your experience consciously and daily. That's the way it really works. Those intentions—the collective one of them—are your one thing. Maybe you want to investigate your own things. Go ahead. I have suggestions for you. But I know with certainty that if you pay attention to any one to ten of the things outlined here—your day will be the better for it. And, ultimately, your life will be better.

      It is easy to grow into forgetting. Forgetting our personal priorities. Forgetting the things that bring us zip, verve, and fundamental joys. We roll into the habit of meeting the expectations of others, seeking approval by fitting in and, in general, responding to a status quo that is not resonant with our souls. How do we remember those things that have been set aside, disregarded, or positioned last on the list?

      Live with Intention is a resource for you. I want to provoke and inspire you to rediscover that which you know deeply within yourself but allow the press of daily demands and uncertainties of life to kick out of your view. This is a safe place to be prompted in reflection and ruminations. It is a way to help you remember what you have temporarily overlooked or forgotten. Rediscovering, reconnecting to your intentions, whether they are similar to mine or completely different, will restore, renew, and bring to the forefront the life that you long to live. As you consider the diverse words gathered here, may you revel in the remembering (or discovering) of the intentional things that animate and invigorate your days.

      How do you do that? Observe your life. Watch how your days unfold. Notice what invigorates or inspires you. Pay particular attention to the things for which you have unbounded energy and excitement. Making a list of these things is especially helpful. Some things are so deeply embedded into our experience, it can be difficult to see them. Part of this observation process involves being aware of what tires you, burns you out in an undesirable way. Perhaps there are events in which you are regularly involved that seem significant, but upon closer examination, you find actually drag you down, rather than elevate you. Many discover that their most significant intentions get the least amount of attention. Oddly, the one thing to which Rumi makes reference is often the last thing on lists of things to do. It is that proverbial carrot that is saved for a someday that hardly ever comes.

      Do you know the one thing or the collection of things that together comprise the one thing that invigorates all your actions and sets you on fire? If you know it, do you measure the activities and focus of your day by it? If you do not know it, how do you make decisions and what do you measure them against?

      Over a period of a week or a month, watch how you make decisions. To what do you dedicate your time and attention? Learn from those things to which you say yes and those that receive your No, thank you. It is helpful to make notes on a daily basis. At the end of your observation period, you can draw certain conclusions. Categorize the events that both invigorate and drain you. Consider the balance between them and follow those threads to discover your intentions … your one thing.

      In Live with Intention, you will find what I like to call my Word Birds—winged thoughts that fly out of my daily experience and come to roost as poetry—reflections on ordinary things that produce extraordinary shifts in the way the day shines, poems, promises I make to myself, observations, and remarkable words borrowed from others. In this collection of intentional things, I long for you to find the kernels of inspiration that will light up your ten things (or the things that comprise your one thing) and help you remember or perhaps uncover what is held deeply inside you.

      My friend Sandra seriously gave thought to her own intentions and what they might look like on an average day. Inspired by my list, she created her own ten intentional things list, as I hope you will. I'll share Sandra's with you:

      Wake up rested, say my prayers, and give thanks for an opportunity to live another day.

      Quiet time in the morning to wake up and start the morning with Peace and music.

      Prepare and eat healthy food throughout the day.

      Exercise.

      Complete daily to-do lists and any additional chores.

      Plan time for friends and family, do something fun.

      Read a good book or magazines.

      Learn something new, work, make a contribution to the world.

      Write something every day.

      Finish my day with prayers and gratitude.

      This book is all the result of actively living out what I believe. It is practical. My life is not perfectly ordered, nor am I without challenges or difficulties. Yet I actively commit to these elements in each of my days. Some days contain more of them than others. Balance and ease of cadence do not always come easily to me, and that is why I have created systems to help bring clarity, verve, and balance to my life. I have created these systems for myself because, at the end of each day, that is what makes sense to me. And, at the end of nearly every day, I fall into a peaceful and deep sleep, content that I have invested that day with my finest intentions. Even those most challenging of days are made better when I willfully include these intentions in the course of my day. I am confident you will find that to be true for yourself as well. I lovingly share my experiences with you, knowing that you will consider my words and take what works for you and adjust it to fit the roads of your own life journey.

      This book is written with love, earnest observation, and keen awareness that my life is richer for remembering my core intentions than it would be if I allowed the press of the world and the specific challenges of my life to overtake or overwhelm me. Staying connected to the core intentions of my life allows me to feel and be satisfied at the end of each day.

      Set aside dogma and allow your doctrine to be defined by the way you embrace your day. Would you know what you believe? Watch yourself live. Hear the stories you repeat. Listen to the words you allow to ring in your memory. Read the words and know they can apply to your daily experiences. Observe how you go to sleep at night and see yourself greet the morning. In those ways you will see your beliefs play out.

      Your doctrine is the liturgy of your day: it is read from the pulpit of the dawn and published in the parish pews of the paths you walk and the roads you drive. It is the light that shines and is both practical and practice-able. The intentions you hold define your days and your life. What are your intentions and how do they look in your daily life?

      If I were a mechanical vehicle, this would be my tune-up. The periodic practice of making and keeping promises to myself keeps me connected to the things that make me healthier and, therefore, better able to serve myself and others. I most frequently follow this daily promise-making process for forty days. When a friend of mine, the author Dr. Deanna Davis, asked what the motivation was behind choosing forty days, I laughingly confessed, I know that experts say it takes twenty-one to instill a habit. It seemed to me twenty-one days wasn't long enough to reinforce the practice. And I'd just been talking to someone about the narrative of Noah's Ark. Forty days. Cooped up on a boat. I figured if Noah and all the animals could sustain forty days like that, I could sustain the practice of making, recording, and observing promises to myself on a daily basis. Not exactly a scientific formula but one that works for me and the participants I've guided on the process.

      Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else

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