You will never get motivated until you face this fact.

You aren't being intentional with the time, energy, and other resources that you spend each day.

And here's what you need to do to fix this in three steps.

Step one, recognition. This is a focused effort to recognize all of the different

ways that you are spending your time that might not be as intentional as you want it to be.

Now, it's okay here to start with just the areas that affect the

specific goals and outcomes that you want to create and see where you're doing

things that maybe aren't really the choice you want to make. Keep track of these

things as they come up and then at some point sit down and analyze it.

You're going to learn an enormous amount about how much you are actually making a conscious choice

on a day-to-day basis and that's going to help an enormous amount with step two.

Strategic Reconciliation.

Take the large list that you've been working on and identify the few things that can have the biggest effect on your ability to move towards your goals.

Once you've identified them, you've got to create a strategy for how you're going to be

intentional about those items. And before we jump into step three, let's talk about what intentional actually means in this context.

When you're intentional, you are choosing something, whether good or bad,

and I actually don't even like using the terms good or bad in relationship

to this. You're making a choice. That choice can sometimes move you towards your

goal and other times it can move you away. But being intentional isn't necessarily about making the right choice.

It's about making a conscious choice regardless of what that choice is and then being okay with it and confident in that choice.

For example, one of my big goals right now is to lose about 10 pounds.

Now I know exactly what I need to do in order to accomplish that and I'm doing those things on a day-to-day

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