31 Intentional Living Habits that will change your life

You know how sometimes your life runs away with you?

It happens to all of us, we get caught up in everyday living. We get sucked into drama and tension, both at home and at work.

The result is usually that we become reactive. Our responses are automatic, and we lose sight of our priorities. We are triggered by unimportant things and our resilience disappears and our creativity stifled.

Every day we make hundreds of little decisions, whether consciously or not.

Some of these decisions, we make on purpose. Most of them, however, are unconscious actions that come from our ingrained habits, our beliefs and our frame of mind at the time.

Creating intentional living habits could just be the thing that can change your life when you find yourself in reaction the whole time.

What does intentional living mean

Intentional living to me means that I know what is important to me and I make decisions in my life which align with that.

In other words, to live on purpose and to take deliberate action.

Now, it doesn’t always work out like that BUT, I do try to take deliberate action as much as I can.

What I find is that, the more deliberate action I take, and the more intentional I am, the self-awareness which leads to me being able to be more intentional.

Intentional living habits

I wanted to share with you some habits that you can build, to help you get started with living a more intentional life.

Remember though that the trick with any habit is to start small. Otherwise, you overwhelm yourself and it’s easy to give up.

1. Know your values, and let them guide you
2. Declutter your life
3. Learn to say no
4. Say yes to what matters
5. Eat nourishing foods
6. Have regular digital detoxes
7. Create a self-care routine
8. Take up a practice like yoga, meditation or journaling
9. Unfollow people on social media that don’t align with your values
10. Pay attention to how you speak to yourself
11. Go with silence for 15 minutes each day, without music, audiobooks, television or social media
12. Unsubscribe from newsletters you don’t read
13. Write down your goals and plan your first steps
14. Forgive and release those who have hurt you
15. Focus on living in the present moment
16. Set intentions for your day when you wake up in the morning
17. Spend more time in nature
18. Take responsibility for your choices
19. Stop having a victim mindset
20. Feed your mind by learning something new
21. Take up a daily gratitude practice
22. Stop multitasking
23. Review your spending habits
24. Don’t eat in front of the TV
25. Learn to batch your tasks
26. Take 20 minutes a day to tidy up
27. Make your bed as soon as you get up in the morning
28. Create easy morning and evening routines to ease you into and out of the day
29. When your mind is busy, create a list to help you focus on what is important right now
30. Get enough sleep
31. Learn to have compassion for yourself

Focus on what is essential

These are little (and bigger) habits which will help you to really focus on what is essential in your life.

Whether you are looking for inner peace, less stress or more abundance, I believe that it is possible to create that for yourself with these intentional living habits.