Did You Know that Intentionality has 3 Benefits?

“When you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.” the late McDonald’s leader Ray Kroc liked to say. Or as Robin Sharma (a Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series) stated “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.”

Consciousness and intentionality can seem to penetrate much or all of mental life—perhaps they somehow account for what it is to have a mind. But achieving a general understanding of this is an enormous challenge. For this blog I am going to focus on intentionality.

One-way truth-seekers have explained what they mean by intentionality is that it is that aspect of mental states or events that is consistent or agreeable with their being. Intentionality is about directing the mind to things, objects, states of affairs, events.

So, if you are thinking about last weekend’s party, or about something your spouse said to you before work – it shows that your mind, and your thinking is directed toward something other than your intention at the time.

Intentionality leads a person to:

• focus or directedness in action;
• accountability; and
• fulfillment in life, by understanding the why for their existence.

Consider these quotes about intention;

• “The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” – Lao Tzu (was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese philosopher)
• “Our intention creates our reality.” – Wayne Dyer (was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker)
• “We either live with intention or exist by default.” – Kristin Armstrong (American athlete)

I believe that leaders need to help identify what their staff care most about and what they want to achieve, and then help to assess how their approaches or habits might make it more challenging to realize their goals.

I also believe that individuals need to identify what they care most about and what they want to achieve, and then get an accountability coach to analyze whether their approaches or habits are hindering their progress towards their goals.

Sadly, it can be stressful for people to accept helpful feedback. Possibly the way leaders can do this is to ask for feedback frequently about how things are going for them. Then model the idea that what is now taking place is very important for all in the company to do.

Keeping all of this in mind, I wanted to tell you that every month in 2024 I intend to introduce to you a book that has had an impact in my life. I plan on posting it on my LinkedIn site.