Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of Marchez Avec Johan. So, you hear, I am walking on a path on which there are a lot of stones. I don't know if you can hear, because I have a microphone that is quite close to my mouth, but you must hear it. It makes a lot of noise, these stones. And I am very happy that you have chosen to spend a little time with me today, to accompany me during my walk, to talk about a subject of personal development. Like every Wednesday, I help you improve your French while improving your life by sharing my learnings, my mistakes, my successes, sometimes, my thoughts, and it allows you to speak with a French person finally and to listen, to hear Authentic French.
And today, in fact, we're going to tackle a subject that I covered a little over a year ago but that I wanted to re... that I wanted to talk about again. It's a little tip to try to put in place on a daily basis, to really use every day. You'll see that it's very useful and that it will help you in a lot of areas of your life. It's about intention. You'll understand in a moment what I mean by that.
I talked about intention not long ago. In my podcast on " I'm working on my memory " two weeks ago, I actually told you that, at one point, I thought I had memory problems, problems japan whatsapp number data learning certain things recently, and I explained to you that in fact no, it was just a lack of method and often a lack of intention, that is to say I didn't start a book by telling myself "I have to read it or I'm going to read it to learn things that I'm going to apply", so, that's having an intention, to say to yourself "I'm taking the book, I'm reading it, I'm going to learn things that I'm going to apply". Intention is learning things.
And when I did that, I memorized much better than if I read passively in fact. So, I explained to you at that time that intention was the key to solving these small memory problems. But in fact, the more I think about it and the more I apply this intention to memorization and learning, the more I realize that in fact it goes further. Intention, we can use it everywhere. And intention as I define it for this episode, is setting a kind of small objective, the desire to have a small result, and we are ready to take actions for this result. That's just it, intention, saying to ourselves: "I am looking to have a result, that is my intention". And in fact, in the same way that we are often passive when we read a book and that we therefore do not retain what we have read, sometimes, in life, we are passive in everyday activities...
Wait, because I stepped on something that's a little weird. Well... I don't know. Sorry. It gave me a funny feeling where I stepped.
And being passive in our life activities, well that makes us let ourselves be carried along, as they say in French, or we move with the flow. Moving with the flow is an image that comes from a river. You imagine a river flowing. On this river, there is a little piece of wood floating. Well this little piece of wood, it moves with the flow, that is to say that it is the water that makes it move forward.
And it's the same for us. When we live in a somewhat passive way, without setting an intention, we're going to go with the flow, we're going to be passive. When we meet our friends, if we have an appointment with friends, with our family or in daily activities, well we're going to arrive, we're going to sit down, "hi, how are you", we're going to talk and we're going to let ourselves move forward, let ourselves be carried like a stick on the... on the surface of the water and we're going to spend time. But after a few hours or a few days, well we're going to come back to our activities and we won't necessarily have set an intention beforehand.
And I try more and more to set intentions before an appointment, whether it's personal or professional. Before a professional appointment, I always set, I always had an intention, I said to myself: "I'm going to talk with this person. We're going to talk about these points, A, B, C, which concern work". So, I always have an agenda, I always have a list of points to cover. Well, I do it now for personal appointments or for all other activities. Before I go to see my family, before I see friends, if I go out somewhere, I'm going to define what I'm looking for, I clarify what I want, I clarify the intention. And really, I find that much better than letting yourself go, than doing everything as you go.