“Jet fuel for the highly motivated… reads like the Prophet or a Japanese wisdom book.”
Tired of being entertained by your own potential? Stop circling the life you say you want.
A Way of Intention is a book for people who want more from their life and are ready to seek direction. It is written like a poetic manual: direct, strange, practical, and meant to be marked up.
Read it slowly. Mark it up. Argue with it. Come back to it when you need the next question.
Am I making progress, or staying busy? Am I preparing, or putting off a choice? Am I practicing in a way that will change anything?
“One of the best books I’ve ever read in my entire life. A true manual on becoming a maestro.”
What you get from the book
You get clarity and direction. The book helps you think through what you want your life to be for, what kind of work you want to do, how you practice, how you manage stress, and what you may need to stop doing.
It will not give you a formula. It gives you a way to ask better questions and make better choices.
If you already feel motivated, the book will push you harder. If you feel scattered, it will help you find direction.
Five works for an ordered life
The book contains five contrarian works on self-knowledge, commitment, disciplined practice, pressure, humility, and joy.
- Learn what you areA guide for getting Serious.Helps you stop treating your life like it will last forever. You face your Calling, your limits, and the cost of postponing what matters.
- Reject the reasonable lifeA guide against small living.Helps you see where comfort, approval, safety, and “sensible” choices are making your life smaller.
- Get Good. Go Fast. Conquer!A guide for reaching the Promised Land.Gives you a way to think about practice, mastery, speed, and performance.
- Make friends with stress and anxietyA guide against calmness.Helps you understand pressure without treating every hard thing as something to escape.
- Die to Self. Find Joy. Access Genius.A guide for creating Moments of Genius.Points toward work that serves something beyond your ego.
“A reminder that craft is a spiritual and practical discipline.”
A poetic manual for serious people
The book is built in short, forceful sections meant to be read slowly, marked up, argued with, and returned to.
The book reads somewhere between manifesto, field manual, devotional text, and a set of exercises for people who are tired of being entertained by their own potential.
“Anthony writes like a whole group of ancients.”
How to read this book
This is a book to mark up, argue with, and return to. The short sections and white space are there on purpose.
Read a little. Stop. Write in it. Come back when you need it again.
If a line irritates you, pause there. If a section feels obvious, ask whether you actually live that way.
“Reading this made me feel like you opened this current chapter of my life and put it in book form.”
Why I wrote it
I have worked with Grammy-winners, Emmy-winners, Olympic athletes, TED speakers, Fortune 500 executives, NASA astronauts, inventors, mathematicians, physicists, and world-renowned experts.
Their methods are ordered. Their best work comes from discipline, practice, pressure, limits, service, and joy.
This book sequences what I have observed in others and adopted for myself.
Readers found themselves in it
“20 years of experience beautifully written into truths that sound 200 years old.”
“This book is so good, I just ordered a copy. And I already have it.”
“This is the best content I have read this year — and I read a lot.”
“You’ll read a page and then spend a week thinking about what you read.”
“Heartily recommended. Jet-fuel for the highly motivated.”
Who this book is for
This book is for people who want to do more with their life and know motivation is not enough.
You may be building a career, changing direction, carrying more responsibility, or trying to decide what deserves your time.
If you already feel motivated, the book will push you harder. If you feel scattered, it will help you find direction.
Use the book with AI
If you use ChatGPT or Claude to think through your life, use the book as the standard. Do not ask AI to motivate you. Ask it to press on your excuses.
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Available editions
Paperback · $50
The complete 400-page book with generous margins for writing in. Buy it through Lulu.
Hardcover · $100
The complete 400-page book in hardcover, with generous margins for writing in. Buy it through Lulu.
Personalized hardcover · $500
Your name stamped in gold foil on the spine, printed in the book, and printed on the dust cover. Comes in a velvet sack with a personalized letter from Anthony.