Key points

How we are in our lives is at least as important as what we do—maybe more so.

We have little control over things that happen, but we have control over how we encounter and relate to them.

Setting a daily intent based on the quality of our thinking can inspire meaning and improve performance.

In the 1999 film "American Beauty," there’s a scene in which Annette Bening’s character, a real estate agent, prepares for an open house. With an intent of certainty, she declares, “I will sell this house today!” She continues to recite this mantra as she scrubs, vacuums, dusts, and otherwise prepares to make good on a sale that, in her very bones, is all but predetermined. Yet as potential buyers come and go, her great intention seems to slip further and further away, and at the risk of

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