Intention
What are we doing here?
A hear those five words a few times every week. The are uttered by a sixty something year old man that I am proud to call a coworker.
When he utters those words it’s not praise. He says them in his thick Portuguese ancient and it comes out something like ‘whut ah we duuuuiiinnn?’
Never is he questioning effort, but when we hear this we know our intent is being questioned.
To have intent is being able to ask yourself or have someone else ask you, what are you doing and be able to answer incisively.
Effort doesn’t always correlate with results. You can push hard against the side of a building all day but won’t see productive results, likely ever. This is effort without intent.
Those who can add intent to effort, will see great results. So step back a few times throughout the day, wipe the sweat off your brow, take a sip of water, ask, and then answer. What are you doing?
