YouTube talk by Jayson Lowe (uploaded Sept 2, 2023) arguing that most people fail to achieve their stated life goals because they lack intentionality; the speaker emphasizes setting deliberate actions and warns that passivity and inattention (including financial neglect) erode motivation and progress.
A lot of people go study history. A lot of people come out of any university or a college and they're at a really good place in their life and they figure, okay, my whole life's ahead of me. I'm going to set this world on fire. But when you follow it through, how many people actually achieve what they would call success? Well, that number is extremely low. So why is that? And it's about intentions. You want to be intentional and set the right actions to get there. You'll get there. But if you go through life just going along and, you know, letting life happen and you know, okay, and you're not paying attention to certain things, whether it's financial or other things, those will get away from you. And pretty soon, you know, you just realize, okay, life's going by and it's going by quickly and you lose some of that excitement, some of that drive that you had because you get caught up in life.
