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Does This Need to Be a Goal? - David Spinks' Newsletter

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“Awesome piece David. Loved reading this and I can relate to a lot of what you said. You speak about replacing goals with intentions. I would love to understand more about how you approach the act of intention setting, what you believe them be, and what they should signify.” Basically, Chris is saying, “cool cool but how?” That’s a great question. Here’s my take… A goal speaks to an outcome I’m committing to achieve. An intention speaks to how I want to show up to the process. Eat a whole box of Buncha Crunch would be a goal. Savor every bite of Buncha Crunch would be an intention. An activity can have both a goal and an intention but, often, I find it doesn’t need to be goal. It can just be an intention. How do I figure it out? I run the goal through a set of reflective questions. What I’ve found is that when I discover a goal isn’t necessary, an intention naturally emerges. To show you what I mean, today I’ll walk through three real goals I’ve recently considered adding to my life: G

Last week I wrote about living without goals. Most goals, I boldly claimed, can just be intentions. Chris asked a great question in the comments: “Awesome piece David. Loved reading this and I can relate to a lot of what you said. You speak about replacing goals with intentions. I would love to understand more about how you approach the act of intention setting, what you believe them be, and what they should signify.” Basically, Chris is saying, “cool cool but how?” That’s a great question. Here’s my take… A goal speaks to an outcome I’m committing to achieve. An intention speaks to how…

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