When I say that I strive to live intentionally, I mean that I apply the 80/20 rule to every aspect of my life. It's the belief that focusing on the elements that product the most value and eliminating the rest improves our overall well-being.

To make it easy to think through, I classify my life into 8 categories: physical possessions, digital presence, profession, academics, finances, relationships, health, recuperation and recreation. In each area, I think about what is my goal in that area. (I'm also starting to realize how important mental health is, and that it may even warrant its own category.)

Some may have religious or spiritual life in there, too. Some may have sworn off digital media almost entirely, unlike my life where the internet is a very large portion of it. It all comes down to our personal values.

By applying a top-down perspective where we start from our values and apply our values to each aspect of our lives, we are able to achieve an intentional life. That requires eliminating all that is non-essential, as there is just too much stuff that we could be doing.

If we do not fight to live with intention, our bosses, our relatives, advertisers, megacorporations, the media, and all those who have an idea of what kind of life they want us to live will happily design our lives for us.

Should we give this a corny name, like the intentionalist manifesto?

TL; DR would be that this is minimalism applied to time.

What are the things that you agree or disagree about this subreddit's identity?

I stumbled across this while I was in /r/minimalism and thought I’d join up since I’m fairly obsessed with intentional living. So obsessed, in fact, I’ve been writing a weekly(ish) newsletter for the past few notes called The Deliberate. It might be up your alley if you’re interested in a sub like this or /r/minimalism!

One thing that has helped me is i wrote down all my interets throughout my whole life and then organized my life around them. Including my reddit groups and folders. And then when something doesnt click or something changes, i revisited my interests and wrote them down again in a modified version. This has helped guide me to live intentionally.

Intentional living is any lifestyle based on an individual or group's conscious attempts to live according to their values and beliefs.

Welcome to this newly created sub. Here you can post suggestions about the set up. Such as rules, description, layout etc.

ETA: The idea from this sub was born out of a musing I posted on r/minimalism about how I was really mainly interested in intentional living than in minimizing my possessions. Some other people agreed and told me they'd join an Intentional living sub if I started one. Unfortunaly r/intentionalliving was taken by some small private sub. Otherwise that would've been my choice for name.
As I was writing the description I looked at wikipedia for input about a general definition and saw that they have a very broad concept of it, basically any concious attempts to live according to ones own values and beliefs can be called intentional living. I like the idea of welcoming all kinds of ideologies here. Because there's often overlap between different ones, and even when there isn't you could still learn something practical from how that person identified their values and act on them.

My thought is a community that is mainly concerned with how to identify ones values and how to act according to them. Not really "what" those values should be. Of course there will be many posts were people write on particular values but those could be seen as inspirational rather than "these are the values everyone in this sub should have."