Title: INTENTIONAL: HOW TO LIVE, LOVE, WORK AND PLAY MEANINGFULLY
Author: David Amerland
Publisher: New Line Books
Pages: 218
Genre: Nonfiction

BOOK BLURB:

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.

FAVORITE QUOTE FROM FIRST CHAPTER:

Here is the first truth in a book of truths: you can't be everything to everyone.

BOOK COVER:

Loved the cover. Eye-catching, professional and oh so perfect.

FIRST CHAPTER REVIEW:
 
What a pumped up book this is turning out to be. In David Amerland's Intentional: How to Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully, the first chapter is exceptional. Others need to give this one a try I'm serious. Amerland's point in the first chapter is to get us to openly realize the importance of our own lives. There is a quote in this first chapter that hit home - it goes, "A life lived without a purpose is a life mostly wasted." He stresses it's all about purpose and I have to say I agree with him. But he assures us in this first chapter that the rest of the book is the prescription you need to live your life the way you want to. The last part of this first chapter really did it for me. He answers the question "How can I live my life intentionally? (as opposed to just skating through life)" He mentions unhappy people suffer socially, physically and mentally and cites reasons that is so. What a powerful first chapter this turned out to be.

KEEP READING?

Absolutely! The author has stirred the pot and I'm ready to jump right in!

  

 

 

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.

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