Lecture on Intentional Living and Personal Growth

Key Concepts

• Intentional Living: Focus on changing one aspect of your life at a time instead of trying to change everything.
• One Step at a Time: Choose a single area to improve and work consistently on that.

Personal Experience

• Health Focus: Example of focusing on health for a year. Improved stamina and overall well-being.
• Snowshoeing Story: Demonstrates the benefits of focusing on health.

Areas to Be Intentional

• Personal Growth: The primary focus should be on self-development.
• Self-Development: Essential for future improvement and well-being.

Important Lessons

• Growth is Not Automatic: You have to work on growing yourself; aging is automatic but improving is not.
• Growth Plan: You must have a structured plan for personal growth.

Influential Moments

• Kirk Camp Meyer Incident: The introduction to the concept of a growth plan.
• The Role of Books: Reading selected books was emphasized as a method for intentional growth.

Practical Advice

• Consistency: Be deliberate, consistent, and willful in your efforts.
• 15 Laws of Growth: A recommended book to understand and implement growth.
• Reading for Success: Suggested practice of paying children to read valuable books to instill good habits.

Family Influence

• Parental Influence: Father's unique approach to allowances by paying for reading, not chores.
• Impact on Siblings: Success of siblings attributed to early reading habits.
• Populist Concept: Grandchildren keep a list of impactful quotes, reinforcing the importance of meaningful reading.