i have to confess

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A core theme of this newsletter is living intentionally.

Or at least it is supposed to be.

The importance of living intentionally probably hasn’t been coming across much recently, because to be honest, I haven’t been being intentional while writing this.

This is the 16th issue of Steps Worth Taking…woah. While it does feel like I have been putting this out for a while now, it doesn’t feel like I have provided 16 weeks of content that helps you intentionally find direction and take action in life.

And that makes sense. Because I can’t help you find direction and take action in life if I myself am drifting through this newsletter. Drifting through life.

People say our lives are defined by our choices. But whether you’re deciding to go to college, get married, start a newsletter…the choice is just the beginning. Our lives, our stories, continue onward. Just because you are intentional in making the choice, it doesn’t mean you will be intentional living out that choice.

That definitely rings true with my choice to start this newsletter.

When I started Steps Worth Taking, I had been wanted to start a newsletter for a while. I actually started writing a completely separate newsletter a year prior to launching this one, but never took the leap and launched it (maybe someday I’ll share it with you all 😉).

After starting Steps Worth Taking, I was strategic with the first few issues. Trying to write ideas that would build off of each other.

But then as life got busier, as I started writing issues on Monday nights at (checks watch) 10:45pm before bed, I began to pick a random appealing idea from the long list I accumulated and just write.

That isn’t intentional, that is me drifting through life. Which is the exact OPPOSITE of what I want for my life, and it is definitely not what I want for your lives.

Because drifting through life is not fulfilling. You have no control over where you will end up if you don’t have agency.

So this is a reminder for myself, for you.

Making an intentional choice in life doesn’t make you intentional.

It takes showing up every day, living intentionally, before you are able to truly design your life and declare your own trajectory.

This is a wake up call for me.

I am refocusing myself on living intentionally. Writing intentionally. And growing this newsletter intentionally.

I recognize that this isn’t going to be an easy process, the things most worth doing rarely are.

It will take time, I will make mistakes, and I’ll never be perfect. But the best I can do is try.

I hope you will join me.

Until next week.

Step by step,

Nathan

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