Power Of Intention – First Steps To Success

January 9th, 2012

What are your intentions this year? If you could write the script (and you can, ya know?) for how this year would turn out, what would it include? There are many choices and I can share from personal experience, that too many choices can stop you in your tracks and put a halt on your progress. So take a minute to pause and then ask the question of what your intentions are for this year as many times as it takes before you get a few solid and clear answers.

Have you ever read something or heard something that you never paid a lot of attention to and then out of no where (or so it seems) you hear that idea over and over again? That is what happened with me around the word ‘intentions’. Sure, I know the word, I’ve read about it here or there, but in the last few weeks I have seen and heard about it more than I can count. No, not because it is a new year and the conversations are usually the same, but because I was present to it and I have been called out to look at it more closely.

So I stopped, took a look and will continue to do so in the weeks and months that are ahead. I wanted to put the idea out there for you to take a look at the word intention and what it means to you, but more so, I wanted to check in and see if you are being called to look more closely at something. A word, an idea, a business model, a relationship? Turns out there are signs and clues all around us if we pause long enough to recognize them instead of ignore them.

I have been a bit stuck. My head has been spinning with ideas about what big things I want to accomplish and what big goals I should and should not make a priority. I was looking for the first steps to success, seems normal, right? So here is what happened as a result of looking at the word intention more closely. I took all my ideas (oh, SO many!!) and made a new list called “The BIG 3”. I wrote down 3 priority projects and also listed out in what ways I could measure that I was making progress with each.

Intentions can be inspiring! Intentions can pull you in and help you focus on what matters most to you so that you can get out of your head and start taking action to make some bigger (or not so big) things happen!! How about you? What are your first steps to success this year? Your thoughts?