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Here’s Why Your Actions and Behaviours need to be Congruent with Your Intentions

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This quote smacked me right between the eyes when I read it.

“We judge others by their actions, be we judge ourselves by our intentions.”

It’s a spin-off from a Steven Covey quote: “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”

Here’s why it caught my attention.

When we observe other people, we only see their actions and behaviours. We make assumptions about their intentions.

Our judgments, good or bad, about another person’s actions and behaviours are made from limited information.

Flip it around.

Before you take action, you know your intention. You have the internal context behind your actions and behaviours.

But other people observing you don’t. They make assumptions about the intentions behind your actions and behaviours.

How often do your actions and behaviours not represent your intentions?

For example, my intention was to do the dishes before my wife came home from work.

But I got caught up in answering an important email.

I had good intentions, but what my wife sees is no action, which could easily lead her to conclude, lazy git, I can’t believe he left these dishes here for me to do.

Don’t be so quick to judge another person’s actions and behaviours without knowing their intention. And don’t forget to consider if your actions and behaviours are congruent with your intentions.

late afternoon pick me up

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black coffee, super hero style
pick me up

Late afternoon, sometimes you need a little something to lift your energy to get you over the line.

pleasure as the purpose of life

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#32 Digital Calm: We discuss the Epicurean principles of life versus Hedonism and what we mean by “Balanced Pleasure.” Why housework is good for thinking and developing friendships can be the basis for a fulfilling life. The three kinds of desires and how you can use them to create a philosophy to live by. Near the end of the show Clay shares why he’s happier and a very simple and effective question that helps him decide how to spend his time.

80s Crushes

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I ventured out into the post-pandemic world yesterday. There were a few walkers around, but not many. Someone a few cubicles over from me kept coughing. Once upon a time, they would have been tarred and feathered and tossed out into the street.

But now, with the vaccine pumping through most people’s veins, everybody in the office was pretty chilled about it. No need to panic. Carry on.

Anyway, last night on the show we tumbled down an 80s rabbit hole after I asked the question, “Who were your 80s crushes?” That chat room lit up. The names came pouring in, so much so I had to call an audible and throw out the original playlist and ad-lib the rest of the show!

This is what the Room came up with:

To get the full on 80s experience, I had to go dig around Youtube and pull up the videos to some of the songs.

1. Nasty Girl – Vanity 6 (my number one crush)

2. Some Kind of Lover – Jody Watley

3. Opposites Attract

4. Since I Fell for You

5. The Glorious Life

6. Like A Virgin

Digital Calm #30

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We venture into deep water on this episode tackling consciousness and self-awareness and how they affect who we believe ourselves to be. On the playlist we have music from Justin Warfield, Air, Beth Orton, Skylab, Poets of Thought and more.

The great hamburger hunt is on

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I’ve been threatening to go on a hamburger adventure for many years, now I think the time is ripe. We’ve been cooped up for a year dealing with this whole pandemic thing and now that we’re finally allowed back out, I’m ready to hit the road. In the episode, we lay down the foundation of our burger rating system.

Classic cheeseburger from The Boat Inn

#audiomo Day 1: Challenge Accepted

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– a 30-day audioblogging challenge I’ve been looking forward to all year. And the timing couldn’t have been more perfect.  If you’re an audio freak or geek, or new to podcasting and have been sitting on the fence about whether or not to start a podcast of your own, is the perfect vehicle to kickstart your podcasting ambitions. 

Doing something for 30 days straight is a good way to start a new habit. Plus the community is super supportive.

I challenge you to

Try All You Want #25: Where’s the oil at?

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This week, Suge Knight ’96, creatine, Coach Clay evolution, potential merch held up over oil dispute and image rights, and a fair bit of loud music from your hosts, the EXTROVERT Clay Lowe and the introvert Daniel Ruiz Tizon.

Hello Good People,

Happy Friday! Are you ready for the weekend? I sure am. I’m all jabbed up and ready to go out into the world again and bring some semblance of normality back to my life.

We had a blast last night on the Try All You Want show. @TomAZO11 was in good form with his cheeky comments in the chat. He has a thing for oil that’s kind of scary!

Our lady @MsMendosa brought her sister along and forced @DanielRuizTizonisAvailable to listen to some good rock music with classics from Rush and Ozzy Osborne.

@F5Hoodie ever the voice of reason, dropped some Lynyrd Skynyrd into the mix.

Other notables in chat last night: @HATMANJUSTWEARSAHAT graced us with his presence for a little while, @HitThePost shared his claim to fame about the time he almost bought Lou Gramm’s house with its 30 TVs. @Boydie71 kept it chilled and @SourcesSay stopped by to say hi.

That’s all, for now, folks, have a fantastic weekend.
Soulcruzer

Digital Calm #28

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We had a great time on the Digital Calm show last night. The chatbox was on fire. On the episode itself, we dove into the question: do the ends justify the means?  We also found out that Clay Lowe is dead – long live DJ Soulcruzer! And we may have just seen the birth of the Queen of Calm or the Queen of Chaotic Calm. The jury is still out.

a BIG shoutout to:

@balutacristina

@Danielruiztizonisaavailable

@F5hoodie

@TomAZ011

@MsMendosa

for livening up the chatbox with good vibes.

The Playlist

  1. Why Does the Wind? – Tracey Thorn
  2. Nothing Can Stop Us – Saint Etienne
  3. Sweet Harmony – The Beloved
  4. Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer
  5. Missing – Everything But the Girl

Digital Calm #27

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If you missed Tuesday’s Digital Calm show live, then here’s the replay.
Just a reminder, the show streams live every Tuesday from 8 – 9:30 PM.

If you download the Mixcloud app (search soulcruzer) you can have the show on the go with you while driving or walking the dog.

This week we get into a discussion about whether or not what a person does really matters in the grand scheme of things.

Plus we play some great tunes from Doctor Flake, Roy Bebop, Lost Frequencies, Embody, and more.
Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.

try all you want #22

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What do you do when your co-host has the hump? Nothing you can do in those circumstances, but soldier on!

In this episode, Clay introduces his intermittently crabby co-host to ‘geocache’ which Daniel clearly has trouble grasping, before the duo get into it over the American’s longstanding aversion to email. Clay struggles with a slow tune, Daniel just struggles. All that and more.

Playlist

  1. Harder Than You Think – Public Enemy
  2. Ironbound / Fancy Poultry – Suzanne Vega
  3. Standup – WOUNDEDSPiRiT, Har-Q
  4. There She Goes – The La’s
  5. Killing Me Softly With His Words – Fugees, Ms Lauryn Hill
  6. Replace Me – Mount Kintsugi
  7. She Saw the World – The Blue Nile

feeling a little lighter

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I’m feeling a little lighter today. Maybe because it’s Thursday and the work week is coming to a close. Or maybe it’s because I’m lifting heavy weights again after a year off because of the pandemic. Doesn’t matter. What matters had a good lunch session on soulcruzer on the radio, which by the way, I think I’m going to rebrand to an old brand I use to have sport – The Musical Journey show.

I explain more in the audio:

From the lunch sessions

Some classic 80’s and late 70’s jams