Creative Director: Intention
I Create: Creative Director of my Life.
Intention: an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
When we want to actively participate in creating our life, we have a goal, or a True North, or an ‘X’-marks-the-spot, on a map that we have to plan out in order to reach the destination.
If you want those goals enough, you will do the work to get there. You will decide to make the plan to create that map. If you want the goal enough, you have a pull towards it that ‘no matter what,’ you will get there. No matter what.
Having an aim that you want to work towards, no matter what, means that you have that desire and will then try to figure out how you can make it happen. This is setting Intention. Knowing and committing to the fact that you will get there.
As Michael Beckwith says, which I wrote out for you last week, ‘intention provides the vibration of willingness.’ The willingness draws these things that will help you along the way, whether it is to clear the path, draw people in that have done something similar to then mentor or guide you along the way, or align things that show you that you are on the right track. The willingness has a mysterious way of moving energy to line up for things to fall into place. Setting that Intention that you will do the work needed, is what sets that energy in motion.
One of the things I made the decision for with my map was sticking to a plan, so that I would actually see improvement. The thing about internal work – which it mostly is about internal work – is that it can take a long time. Years. Years and years. And so although we know any improvement is good, it can also feel like it’s very slow. I want advancement with mindset, mood and consciousness, and improve my capacity to manage things or problem solve better. Be more in tune with my intuition. But jumping around with my focus between these various things and going about it willy-nilly means that I’m not making much advancement. Making a plan in a way that I know I am not jumping between these with no focus, but focusing a little bit on each thing daily, will make sure that I am making some advancement. Slow and gradual is ok, If it’s intentional and purposeful. It’s all going to be slow and gradual anyway, but I might as well make it efficient.
The work still doesn’t guarantee that some things may shift and fall away and are not as important anymore (but this could also be integration, which we’ll talk about another day). Focus might still adjust slightly, but we want to always have certain tools and resources on our radar, to help us with our Intention. But the main thing is, to not lose sight of the big picture, your True North, the reason why the work along the way is important.
And arguably nothing more important than Consistency.
Until next week,
Devon