Item: Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
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Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully by David Amerland | Review & $25 Giveaway

A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me with the information for this tour.

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Book Details

Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully by David Amerland
Published by New Line Books on 06/23/2021
Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help, Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
Format: eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Pages: 262

Live your life the way you want to. Manage stress better. Be more resilient and enjoy meaningful relationships and better health. We all want that. Such life leads to better choices, better jobs, loving romantic partners, more rewarding careers and decisions that are fully aligned with our aims.

What stops us from getting all that is the complexity of our brain and the complicated way in which the external world comes together. The misalignment between the internal states we experience and the external circumstances we encounter often leads to confusion, a lack of clarity in our thinking, and actions that are not consistent with our professed values.

Intentional is a gameplan. It helps us connect the pieces of our mind to the pieces of our life. It shows us how to map what we feel to what has caused those feelings. It helps us understand what affects us and what effects it has on us. It makes it possible for us to determine what we want, why we want it, and what we need to do to get it.

When we know what to do, we know how to behave. When we know how to behave we know how to act. When we know how to act, we know how to live. Our actions, each day, become our lives. Drawn from the latest research from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral and social psychology, and evolutionary anthropology, Intentional shows how to add meaning to our actions and lead a meaningful, happier, more fulfilling life on our terms.

Source: Goddess Fish Promotions, Received from the author or publisher for review.

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Excerpt from Intentional

Whether we realize it or not, we all feel the need for this kind of guidance that gives us a deep sense of purpose. Because we are born physically helpless we have evolved to latch onto and work hard to understand our immediate environment and the people around us. This makes us, as we grow older, intensely pro-social. At the same time, it provides us with a ready-made set of expectations, rules, and guidelines to guide our behavior that arise from the collective behavior of those around us.

That behavior is the culture we experience and the traditions we abide by. The problem with this is that rather than defining for ourselves what is important to us we accept that which is given to us. That which is given to us is rarely what we want, but it can very easily become what we settle for.

Settling is an evolutionary-programmed trait. Let me explain: Life is hard. It really is. Even if we happen to have the extraordinary luck to be born into a very rich family whose legacy gives us everything we need to live comfortably for the rest of our life, maintaining that fortune and navigating through life is going to be fraught with risks, traps and constant upheavals.

We need other people. Other people need us. That is a truth. But the reasons for this mutual need are usually contradictory or, at the very least, sufficiently at odds with each other to make trust an issue and turn cooperation into a risk-assessment exercise.

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My thoughts on Intentional

“Being intentional in life means being in control. This is not the same as having control of everything and everyone or being controlling.”

The above quote is from the beginning of the book and sets the right tone immediately. Understanding what “intentional” means is the key to getting the most out of the book.

This isn’t exactly an easy read but it’s powerful. In a few short chapters, David Amerland gives you many keys to help you on a journey to live more intentionally.

The book is broken down into sections on

Identity
Goals
Motivation
Behavior
Beliefs
Values
Grit
Attitude
Mindset
Happiness

When you combine these with the “How to Use This Book” section, you are on your way to self-discovery of an intentional life.

Author, David Amerland, lives by the tenets he explains in the book so you know he personally vetted each concept.

If you are looking to make an improvement in your life, there is no better time than NOW to read this thought-provoking self-help guide.

I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.

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About David Amerland

David Amerland is a Chemical Engineer with an MSc. in quantum dynamics in laminar flow processes.

He converted his knowledge of science and understanding of mathematics into a business writing career that's helped him demystify, for his readers, the complexity of subjects such as search engine optimization (SEO), search marketing, social media, decision-making, communication, and personal development.

The diversity of the subjects is held together by the underlying fundamental of human behavior and the way this is expressed online and offline.

Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully is the latest addition to a thread that explores what to do in order to thrive.

A lifelong martial arts practitioner, David Amerland is found punching and kicking sparring dummies and punch bags when he's not behind his keyboard.