Host explores the word intention as two parts—intent and tension—and discusses how living purposefully creates friction, plus encouragement to slow down, notice songs and small impacts while staying present in daily actions.
Cadre: The word intention, if we hear that word out of its context, I love breaking it down into two words in second word, tension. When you are attempting to live with intention, it naturally rationally think about it, it places you in tension. Being able to slow down allows you to consume less social media.
Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? Mel Myers, Nice to see you. Sms. Oh, marisa, marisa. I love that lyric. Our Gerbs, how are we doing? Now, that's a song called Feeling by Billy Martin. Let me read the opening set of lyrics to you. Sweep the leaves and cut the air Find a secret hanging there you are Hiding at the top of the stairs where you can be alone Drawing roads into the sand Falling deep into your hands Barely grown enough to stand and looking up at you. I love finding new songs.
You wanna know how hard I work at finding new songs? Not at all. I literally open up whatever platform and I go click and I go, mm. There's something there. When someone creates something, a lyric, a melody, it's a gift. It's evidence that something's happening in this world to us. And then we have the opportunity to have it do something through us. My name is jc. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know the things. I know and I care about you and I really hope you're doing great today. But if you're not, guess what?
You are still incredibly capable, still incredibly worthy of doing things that you want to do, things that you need to do. You're going to do things today and it may be hard to merit the worth of those things, but you will impact those people around you. And Cadre is your reminder of that. Literally. Look at the opportunity to see a screen name pop on in and you go, ah, someone else is here that makes you feel good. Which means they did something to make you feel good. Emily8770 just bopped into the live stream that impacted all of us, right?
Purely by going, hey, I am here. All of a sudden, something really beautiful happens today, as most days. I love words and I love playing with words. The word intention, I n T E N T I O N. Intention. It's a popular word. It's a cool word. It's a work word. It's like, what's your intention set? An intention, have an intention, right? And often these words that become very like the thing, they get sugared up. They get highly metabolized to a place where we go, oh, intention's gonna feel like the tone of my voice.
But intention, if we hear that word out of its context, I love breaking it down into the syllables, right? Rather than intention is one word, I take it into two words in second word, tension. T E N S I O N. When you are attempting to live with intention, it naturally rationally think about it, it places you in tension because you're saying, hey, I'm going to on purpose do this. Now, you wouldn't have to say that if that's what naturally would happen. Intention is like, well, I'm going to do what I aimlessly do anyways.
That's not intention. Intention is going, hey, I'm supposed to go this way. And I'm. But intentionally I'm going to go this way. So we get to that point, what happens? We feel tension. My invitation for you today is whenever you're doing the thing that you are doing purposefully and all of a sudden it feels off or weird or unsatisfying, this world is going to be like, ah, no, intention should feel good. That's what we should be doing. Here's the clear answer. Do it. No, it's always going to feel the opposite.
Whenever we find the thing that seems too easy, too clear, too loud, please ask the question. I really want this thing to be powerful and positive for me. So I'm going to take it off that very high shelf and I'm going to place it into a little bit healthier of a place. You know, you may go ahead and hear. This time of year, I'm going to intentionally consume less social media. I'm going to lay down the technology. I'm going to xyz. Yeah, that may be a really good thing. Not because it's going to, ooh, now my life is fixed.
But because you're doing something intentionally to add tension, which slows you down. Because guess what, you putting down your phone isn't a magic pill. Putting down your phone may be correlated to you doing other things, but most of the time it's not the thing. It's like, do this and all of a sudden everything is fine. Correlation and causation, very different. Correlation, something happens with something else. Causation, something causes something else. Intention invites you to become more aware of what's causing stuff.
Why? Because intention adds tension. Tension slows you down. Being able to slow down allows you to consume. And then on purpose, you can go ahead and ramp and vamp again and go, now I know where I am. So guess what, all y', all, who intentionally joined the live stream this morning that added tension to your day? I probably went over the algorithmic right amount of time that I'm supposed to live stream because I'm an old millennial and I don't know those things and I don't really care about those things.
So you may be like, I have to go, I have to go. I have to go. But you're intentionally here, which adds tension, which slows you down, which makes you aware of why you're doing what you're doing, which allows you, when I say we'll see you tomorrow, the opportunity to go. Huh? I need to do that again. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, have a good one.
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