How Can We be more Intentional?

Dan Mead
4 min readMar 1, 2022

Daily life is often the best teacher for daily life. While fishing, I learn to be a better photographer. One specific day on the Madison River I learned a huge lesson that has stuck with me.

I had lost my mind in the sound of the rushing water reverberating off the walls and staring mindlessly into the hypnotic green current. I’d been drifting bug after bug through the current, to no avail for some time now. Eventually, likely 15 minutes into fishing the same run, I snapped out of the malaise and realized I had not created a plan and was not intentionally doing anything…

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