The Big Topic of Intention

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of intention in our actions and the potential consequences of those actions.

Seems like setting an intention to be kind and to not cause harm would be a simple thing. But then look at the world, and all of the devastating consequences that happen even when the responsible person claims their intentions were good. What if we paid attention to intention at the beginning, middle, and end? Meaning, before we spoke or acted, while that was happening, and later? And if we discovered that we’d caused harm, what if we apologized and made amends? It might not be ea...

People in this episode

Host: Judi Cohen

Topics covered

• intention
• kindness
• communication
• apology
• self-awareness

Keywords

• intention
• kindness
• harm
• apology
• self-reflection

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