Al Aish Al Moutaammad Al Haya Aan Qased Wa Ikhtiar | John C. Maxwell

In Pay It Forward, teacher Eugene Simonet challenges his class to go out and make a difference in other people's lives. He told his students, "Think of an idea to change our world, and then put it into practice." Why? Because he knows that most people, although they wish to do something important, do not deliberately begin to build the bridge between knowledge and action. They are waiting. As a result, they never cross the gap. As a result, they never experience meaning. When I look at my journey toward meaning, I realize that it began with good intentions rather than intentional living. My good intentions expressed my heart and my desire to help others, but it fell far short of the meaning I really yearned for. A great example of this is when I was in high school. I grew up loving basketball. From middle school onwards, I played on the basketball team, and I was pretty good. But I always wanted to play football too. However, I knew my parents didn't want me to play two sports. They were worried that I wouldn't be able to keep up with my studies. So I had a dilemma. Every summer I would tell my buddies that I would be in football tests that fall. And it is my intention to go. However, I knew I would disappoint my parents if I did. So it was inevitable that I would disappoint myself and my friends by not going. The result was that my intentions were inconsistent with my behavior. Early in my life, many times my intentions were just ideas, great ideas but not backed up by action. If I had just been intentional and had told my parents that I wanted to play football, I think they would have let me. The sad part is that I never got to play football because I never told them how I felt. Every fall, I'd sit in the stands to watch the game because that's how far my good intentions have taken me. Over time, I found a way to get out of the stands and onto the field with a bigger life. It was when I began to see the difference between good intentions and intentional living