Thank you for replying. Of course I agree that we need to make a conscious decision every day to seek God and His will, yei I would add this is a continual practice throughout each day, a way of becoming a "living sacrifice." For me, this is the unceasing prayer. 
Re-reading my post I can see where I appear to suggest a sort of bumping along, as if merely hoping to bump into Holy Spirit. 
For me, it is this continual surrender to Spirit and grace that gives what is needed ineach moment without, what seems to me, the egoic control of "intentional living."