{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F903c7890-9b53-475a-b3af-0436a71c68b7","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Live Intentionally\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/903c7890-9b53-475a-b3af-0436a71c68b7\"></iframe>","title":"Live Intentionally","description":"I\u2019m surprised by how few people I\u2019ve seen reference Henry David Thoreau during the quarantine of COVID-19.\u00a0 For the unfamiliar, Thoreau spent a few years intentionally quarantined to get more in touch with himself and nature while removing himself from the busyness of the normal world.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIn his words:\u00a0<br />\r\n\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"\u00a0<br />\r\nWell, ready or not we\u2019re all living some version of Thoreau\u2019s life.\u00a0 We may not all be tucked away in a Massachusetts cabin, but we\u2019re mostly locked in our current living places for the foreseeable future.\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe question is, how do you want to spend the time?\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nRobert Greene calls this conundrum \u201calive time or dead time\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nDead time may sound familiar to you.\u00a0 It\u2019s bingeing Tiger King on Netflix on Monday, only to repeat the habit with Ozark on Tuesday, Ray Donovan on Wednesday, and continue the trend every night until you leave an indent in the couch.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nAlive time is different.\u00a0 Alive time is intentionally spending time reading a book, taking a course or learning a language.\u00a0 It\u2019s spending your evenings running on a trail or opening up that sketchpad that\u2019s been in your office forever.\u00a0 <br />\r\n<br />\r\nPut simply, it\u2019s doing something to better yourself.\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWe didn\u2019t choose the quarantine life but we do get to choose how we respond to it.\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nChoose to live intentionally.<br />\r\nThis post is from our new series, Daily Momentum.\u00a0 Each morning, we send a short, inspirational post via email, blog and podcast.\u00a0 You can get it\u00a0directly to your email here.\u00a0 You can\u00a0subscribe on iTunes here.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/84060626-235a-42dc-9a40-a1eead6830e0/eAA1TPwy9oTcEamuijU4gpev.png"}