How Work and Life Balance on the Same Table
Your career is the coin. Your life is the table it spins on. They've never been separate systems. They're one life, and the intentionality that makes one work is the same intentionality that makes the other hold.
The Framework
A practical framework for understanding how career fulfillment and personal well-being are connected, and how intentionality is the discipline that holds both together.
Two sides of every career. The invisible side — Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose — is what fulfills you. The visible side — Role, Title, and Pay — is what compensates you. Both sides have to spin.
Five cross-braced legs support the life your career spins on: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, and Financial. Weaken one, and the others feel it. The table is what endures when the coin stops.
Awareness. Understanding. Intentionality. Three steps, applied across every dimension of your life, at the cadences that match how each one actually changes. Not a prescription. A discipline.
“Every coin stops. The question is what you built underneath it.”
— from the book
About the Book
Intentional is a 21-chapter exploration of the relationship between the work you do and the life you live. It draws on frameworks from Daniel Pink, Brené Brown, Stephen Covey, Patrick Lencioni, and others — woven together with personal stories, hard-won lessons, and a career's worth of leadership experience.
The book covers the foundry that shaped your aptitudes before you chose them, the four seasons of a career, the five legs that support your personal well-being, the culture that surrounds it all, and the relationships that sustain it. It's written for professionals, leaders, and anyone who senses that the separation between work and life was never going to hold.
Publication details coming soon. For inquiries, speaking, or advance reading opportunities, reach out to hello@intentional-book.com.