No, not a confession about a drinking problem or bribe to get more people to fill out the survey. Actually, it is to thank the
six people who have completed the blog survey so far. So, to that Six Pack, my humble thanks and I toast you for your time and thoughts. To the rest of you, you know who you are, no...I am not going to try and guilt you into taking the 15 minutes to answer the very short survey. Just going to sayI really need at least 15 to get a strong cross section. So, if you can it is greatley apprecated. And if not, I defer to the great sage and prophet, Don Henley, in his song "Wedding Day" when he says, "To want waht I ahve, and take what I'm given with grace...."
As an aside...I want to share an INsight I had during a conversation with a good friend, mentor, coach and partner in wave making - TJ Addington, http://www.leadingfromthesandbox.blogspot.com/ . We were talking about his new book, it's working title having the phrase Intentional Leadership. OK, I agree with this idea, intention, intentionality or any other version...and candidly, I am exhausted by its use. Sort of like branding. Or quality. Or relationship. After a time, even the best new word/descriptor/trigger of thought become the latest fad or trend. So, being a word-a-holic I have what feels like intentional 2.0: deliberate.
de-lib-er-ate
adjective | 1. | carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie. |
| 2. | characterized by deliberation; careful or slow in deciding: a deliberate decision. |
| 3. | leisurely and steady in movement or action; slow and even; unhurried: a deliberate step. |
verb (used with object) | 4. | to weigh in the mind; consider: to deliberate a question. |
verb (used without object) | 5. | to think carefully or attentively; reflect: She deliberated for a long time before giving her decision. |
| 6. | to consult or confer formally: The jury deliberated for three hours.
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in-ten-tion-al
–adjective | 1. | done with intention or on purpose; intended: an intentional insult. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to intention or purpose. |
| 3. | Metaphysics. | a. | pertaining to an appearance, phenomenon, or representation in the mind; phenomenal; representational. | | b. | pertaining to the capacity of the mind to refer to an existent or nonexistent object. | | c. | pointing beyond itself, as consciousness or a sign. | |
So, when you compare the two definitions it sure
feels to me that "deliberate" has more action and context and solidity and focus and impact than "intentional." Right, I see the reference to "intentional" in the first definition, but then it feels like a more hands-on and grasped impact than the definition for "intentional." So...why all this hyperbole for these two words? Seems to me that when God called Abraham outside to look up at the stars to support His covenant of children for generations to come He "deliberately" called him outside the tent. "Do it right now, Abe!" What about Moses standing in front of the burning bush. As if that was not enough to convince curl his beard, God "deliberately" tells him to take off his sandals, for he was standing on holy ground. "Do it now, Mo!" And we can go on; Nehemiah, Joshua, Paul, Steve Carrell (Evan Almighty)....
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When I was questioned (four hours worth!) years ago to determine whether I was fit to be part of a capital murder trial jury, one of the arguments tested out on me by the defense counsel was the difference between just this - deliberate and intentional. It brings back ugly, wounding, wrenching memories - this legal argument that, in the end, took another life.
The prosecution and the defense needed people on the jury who could understand the difference between these two terms - intentional and deliberate. The defendant was 17, and was accused of murder, murder committed during the commission of another crime. Capital murder. Of death penalty proportions. Heinous, bloody, shotgun murder. Intentional. Deliberate.
And then we, the jury members, had to be the deliberate ones. Were we more deliberate than the "man" who forced another man into an abandoned house at gunpoint after having robbed him and told him, "Put your hands up, white boy; you don't want to die with your hands down?" And who had robbed, knifed, and killed another man two weeks prior to this? And who had a history of dangerous criminal behavior too long to detail?
Deliberate is a shade more intentional than intentional. In Texas it made for a different legal direction for the trial. Life depends on it. A word. Two men died violent deaths because of someone's deliberate actions. And that one died because of a group of 12 were very deliberate in weighing what he had done. Wrenching, wounding, terrifying deliberation. Knowing where it would end if our being deliberate found him having been deliberate. We were. He was.
There is irony in this.
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