Creating Your Ideal Future: The Power of Intention

The Relationship Between Intention & Success

When you have thoughts and feelings about something that you want to do or alternatively, something that you do not want to do, you are said to have an intention.

Sometimes it isn’t obvious to yourself or others that you have an intention to do anything in particular. Sometimes you may think you have an intention to make a positive change to your life but it doesn’t eventuate. At other times you may not have felt you meant to make any changes but they came about anyway. You can probably think of a relationship that started or finished without much effort or deliberate intention on your part.

Some believe there is a hand of fate or Higher Power that directs their life. Others believe that they have more control over their destiny. Whether you believe in a Higher Power or not, you do have the power to influence the direction of your life and you can create your ideal future.

True Intention

True intention is letting go – no striving or forcing

I create my own reality

Trust the Universe – it will provide

It is my intention that…

I experience a harmonious lifestyle and health and energy that leads me to creative adventures

I be well provided for – that shelter and food and all of the things that I need to experience life – be given to me in great abundance

I pass this great abundance on and share it with other.

Absolute Intention

In a criminal proof situation intention requires both a guilty mind and an action or inaction. For example, if you have the mental intention of stealing a cash-machine from a bank’s wall you would also have to demonstrate your intention physically and tangibly. If you obtained a truck, several lengths of heavy-duty chain, and visited a website and purchased an explosives kit to assist you to loosen the cash-machine from the wall of the bank, then it could be proven that you had intention to commit an offence.

The more significant the outcome, the more powerful and visible your intention needs to be.

Just thinking and feeling like doing something is not necessarily going to get you what you want. You need to think, feel and do something deliberately aimed at achieving a specific thing or goal.

To increase your chances of success you need to be committed. You need to be obsessed with a goal that you believe is positively life changing – magnificent even!

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn’t meaningful or important unless you’re on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

Mark Victor Hansen, author/co-author of The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Power of Focus, and Dare to Win.

Create Your Magnificent Obsession

A magnificent obsession is an ideal outcome that is magnificent - great, lavish, exceptionally fine, strikingly beautiful and impressive to the mind or spirit – and manifests as an obsession - a persistent, compelling motivation that demands attention. (Merriam-Webster Online)

Start Demonstrating Your Intention & Take Action

Accept the power you have to create and direct your life
Be honest with yourself and accept your current situation
Be grateful for all the beautiful things in your life now
Identify and eliminate the bad and the ugly
Remember to take the lessons from each difficult situation before moving on or you may find yourself back where you were

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.

But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996