Jake Burhans compares living without intention to captaining a ship while the crew refuses to row. You have mental, physical, and subconscious power, but without focused purpose you just drift. Intention is what steers that power toward something.
Moving throughout life with no intention is like being at the helm of the world's finest ship in like the 1600s, and none of your crew members will pick up the oars to row the boat. You have all this potential, all this power in the boat, but none of the crew members are rowing the boat. So you're just drifting about the open ocean. It's the same thing with your day. If you are not focused on what you want, you don't have intention about what you want to do, you have all this power of your mind and your body and the subconscious and the universe, but you're just floating around.
