Resources for being intentional
Books and Guides
Choose books, free primers, and practical guides to deepen your understanding and put ideas into practice.
Free primers
Start with a focused introduction to a framework, practice, or coaching approach.
FREE
The Intentional Leader™ Primer
An exceptionally clear, concept-driven guide for modern leadership. Ideal for new managers, high-potential leaders, and organizations seeking a repeatable leadership model. This is more than a booklet—it’s a launchpad for intentional leadership transformation.
FREE
The Four Foundations Primer
Short, sharp, and powerful—The Four Foundations gives you the mental and emotional toolkit to build a resilient, purpose-driven life. Whether you're just starting your personal growth journey or laying groundwork for more advanced coaching, this resource offers both insight and implementation.
FREE
The Intentional Success System™ Primer
A structured, scalable, and principle-rich guide to building a life and career by design. Whether used as a coaching tool, onboarding framework, or strategic self-assessment, The Intentional Success System is a clear and practical roadmap for anyone serious about intentional growth.
FREE
Choosing the Right Coaching Approach
Choosing the Right Coaching Approach helps readers understand the different types of coaching available—and, more importantly, how to determine what kind of support actually fits where they are right now. This guide clarifies the difference between insight and lasting change, empowering readers to move from reacting to life to choosing their growth intentionally.
FREE
The Intentional Coach™ Primer
A brief but transformational guide to the true essence of coaching. Grounded in purpose, built on trust, and focused on empowering discovery, The Intentional Coach is a meaningful and motivating entry point for coaches who want to lead with depth and intentionality.
Books and practical guides
Choose a resource to study more deeply. Free and paid options are identified on each card.
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The Access Gap™
What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn't what you don't know—but what you already know and fail to put into action when it matters most? The Access Gap™ reveals the hidden barrier between your potential and your performance, empowering you to break free from reactive patterns, unlock the capabilities you already possess, and intentionally create extraordinary outcomes.
FREE
Nothing Feels Broken (And That's the Problem)
This guide is for leaders who feel the weight of sustaining performance even when results look fine. Nothing Feels Broken (And That’s the Problem) explains how behavior is shaped by system design—and how hidden cost accumulates long before anything breaks. It’s an invitation to see the system clearly before moving to solutions.
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From Reaction to Intentional Action: A Practical Guide for Executives and People Leaders
A quick guide for executives and people leaders to move from reaction to intentional action. Includes the Conditions/Capacity/Cost triangle and the Four Hats of ownership to reduce being overwhelmed, clarify priorities, and increase execution.
$4.99
Meet Intentional Achievements: Your Introduction to Thriving-Intentionally
A polished cornerstone of intentional living. Meet Intentional Achievements isn't just another personal transformation book—it’s a quietly bold manifesto. With structured tools, deep philosophical grounding, and a system that integrates purpose with practical execution, this book offers readers a chance to lead lives by design, not default. A powerful launchpad into a legacy-minded system of personal growth.
FREE
From Reaction to Intentional Action: A Quick Guide for Founders, Owners, and Independents
A quick guide for founders, small business owners, and independents to move from reaction to intentional action. Includes the Conditions/Capacity/Cost triangle and the Four Hats of ownership to reduce being overwhelmed, clarify priorities, and increase execution.
$9.99
Are You Choosing Your Life, or Just Managing It
This is not a motivational book or a guide to feeling better. It’s a confrontation with the way you’ve been living and an invitation to create the life you’re truly capable of. You won’t find promises of balance here—only the challenge to choose between reaction and creation, busyness and impact. Open it only if you’re ready to take responsibility for what comes next.
$3.99
Level Up Your Life: The No-Sweat Guide to Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone
Level Up Your Life is a fun, quick-start guide that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do: nudge the reader off the proverbial couch with humor, relatable metaphors and concrete micro-actions. It is not encyclopedic, nor does it pretend to be. The message is simple and sturdy: growth lives just outside the familiar, and the safest way to reach it is one deliberately tiny step at a time. In the crowded arena of self-help titles, that clarity—and the author’s infectious enthusiasm—earns this slim booklet a seat in the top drawer of quick-reference motivational tools.
$4.99
Are You a Tool-a-holic?
In Are You a Toolaholic?, Joseph M. Price, master coach and founder of Intentional Achievements, diagnoses a modern epidemic: the overconsumption of personal growth tools without real transformation. He reveals how tools alone aren’t the solution—and introduces a path beyond the addiction to endless learning. This is more than a critique of the self-help industry—it’s a blueprint for escaping passive consumption and creating measurable change in your life.
$4.99
The Purpose-Decisive Life: Your Path to Intentional Decision-Making
A thought-provoking and empowering framework for intentional decision-making. The Purpose-Decisive Life offers clarity in a chaotic world. It's a book that’s both intellectually structured and emotionally resonant—perfect for readers seeking more than just productivity hacks. This book empowers readers to make decisions with clarity, courage, and purpose—something sorely needed in today’s world.
$6.99
Purpose Unshakable: A Practical Guide to Finding and Living Your Purpose
In Purpose Unshakable, leadership coach and Intentional Achievements™ founder Joseph M. Price guides you on a powerful, practical journey to discover and live your purpose with confidence, clarity, and conviction. More than motivational theory, this book is a hands-on guide to anchoring your identity, direction, and impact in something lasting. A standout in a genre crowded with clichés, this book is both practical and profound.
$6.99
Your Life by Design: Stop Reacting and Start Living Intentionally
Your Life by Design offers a bold yet compassionate challenge: stop living on autopilot. This book is more than a motivational speech in print—it is a strategic and reflective blueprint for readers who crave greater agency, alignment, and meaning in their day-to-day choices. It is not a book to skim—it is a manual to engage with, reflect on, and return to when the noise of life pulls you off course. Readers looking for quick fixes may feel tested, but those willing to do the work will likely find themselves not just inspired, but equipped.
$9.99
Mastering the Art and Skill of Questioning-Intentionally
In Mastering the Art and Skill of Questioning—Intentionally, Joseph M. Price takes you on a transformative journey into the science and psychology of intentional questioning. Whether you're a coach, executive, educator, or parent, this guide will elevate how you listen, lead, and unlock human potential—starting with a single question at a time. “Elegant and essential. Joe elevates questioning into an intentional leadership craft. This book belongs in every professional’s toolkit.”
$9.99
The 12 Traps of Communication: From Breakdowns to Breakthroughs
The 12 Traps of Communication reveals the hidden patterns that cause misunderstandings, conflict, and disconnection—even when people have the best intentions. Through a powerful framework of twelve common communication traps, readers learn how to move from reaction to intentional action and create greater clarity, trust, and connection in every conversation.
$9.99
What Nobody Taught You: A System for Building and Marketing a Coaching Practice
You already know how to change lives — that's what made you a coach. What Nobody Taught You is the practice behind the practice: a complete system for building and marketing a coaching practice with real integrity, not another stack of generic tips. Every lesson leaves you holding something real, so you finish not just informed, but equipped to build the practice you were always meant to have — on purpose, one decision at a time.