Intention or “In Tension” – A Map to Aligning With Purpose
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? — Garth Nix
There’s not much in life we can predict or be sure of, but two things we know: we come. And we go.
Yet what happens in between can feel like a mystery. Look no further than the $11 billion dollar (2019) self-help market for evidence of how many of us seek to understand the truth about our life purpose, and how we align with it while we are here.
But often it feels like the path is choosing us.
We don’t need to know how much people are spending on the quest to understanding to know that many of us are on it. Our fascination with neuroscience, meditation, and TED talks, for example, evidences our desire for context in our lives: ways to see the day-to-day in a framework of something bigger and meaningful.
Believing we have a purpose in our lives is one thing. Feeling it, and feeling the power of aligning with it: entirely another. A simple framework I call the “Intention Map” provides a structure for thinking about our life journey along and what signs or markers to look for to tell us we’re on, or possibly off, the road we’re meant to travel.
