ITL134: How to be Intentionally Grateful

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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🗓️ 24 May 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on which three words I would use to describe myself.

One of them would definitely be searching.

In the second decision –“I will seek wisdom”– I thought for a number of years that the most important word was wisdom.
The most important word is seek.
I’ve become so much more aware of searching because I’ve finally figured out that there is a lot more to the things that I thought I knew.
Even if you are an expert in a field, there are always more answers to search out.

The second word is intentional.

I don’t live my life according to intention.
Intention has no power.
To be intentional about what you do means you are heading in a specific direction for a specific reason.

When you are intentional about where you are going to go, then you are able to determine very quickly if what you are doing is moving you closer or further from the result you want.

The third word is really the first one I thought of, and that is grateful.

Gratefulness is perspective.
I’ve never found anyone who has presented a situation where I couldn’t point out something to be grateful for.

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.8	Hello and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. And with me,
0:18.3	as always, is Andy Andrews. Andy, how are you today? Good, good, buddy. How are you?
0:23.3	I am fantastic. Once again, somehow we've lucked out all these weeks in a row. I find myself sitting
0:29.4	across from you as opposed to just on the phone. Yeah, yeah. And this is great. I enjoy doing this
0:35.4	anyway, but I really enjoy doing it when we're just able to
0:38.6	like look at each other. Absolutely. I think one time a few weeks ago, we said it felt like we were
0:44.0	in college, then maybe a couple weeks ago it was. You mentioned it felt like you're in high school.
0:48.2	Where are we this week? Probably kindergarten, brother. So let's go ahead and get going. Where are we? Where are we today? What are we doing?
0:55.3	We are addressing another great listener question. Now, this one initially, Andy, when I read it to you,
1:01.0	it will sound a little bit generic, or maybe a little bit simple. I don't know how you're going to
1:06.2	listen to it. But I think that this is, it's a great time of reflection. I'm actually very interested to hear your
1:12.9	answers. Okay, so here's the question, Andy. This comes from William. William writes,
1:18.4	Andy, what are three words to describe you? So three words, what three words would you pick?
1:25.6	And I guess you can take this any direction you want. It could be characteristics. It could be just a plain adjective of what you see yourself.
1:32.3	Yeah. See, now all of a sudden I'm thinking is he wanting like three words that like together like a total idiot or three separate words that I mean, you know.
1:43.6	I've got one.
1:44.3	It could be roll-tied roll, right?
1:46.4	That would work.
1:47.3	That would work.
1:48.4	That would work.
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