Create What Comes Next—With Intention

Author. Coach. Creator. Still becoming.

 

I'm Karl Middleton, author of The Twelve Intentions: Mindful Reminders for an Intentional Life, a personal growth and transformation coach, and founder of SamyakForm.

 

My work is centered on a simple idea: we may not control everything that happens in our lives, but we can become more intentional about how we participate in them.

 

That belief wasn't born from theory alone. It developed over a lifetime of experiences—serving as a United States Marine, building a career, raising a family, navigating major life transitions, facing serious illness, beginning again, and discovering that some of life's most important lessons appear when we're willing to stop and pay attention.

 

Those experiences eventually led me to the Twelve Intentions and to the work I do today. I don't believe intentional living means having all the answers or getting every decision right. I believe it begins with awareness: noticing where we are, understanding what matters, recognizing the patterns influencing our choices, and giving ourselves permission to choose what comes next.

 

I'm still practicing that myself.

 

Still learning. Still questioning. Still creating. Still discovering what life has to teach me.

 

Still becoming.

 

There is more to the story.

 

My path here wasn't a straight one. It included service, family, career, reinvention, uncertainty, illness, discovery—and more than one opportunity to begin again.