Upcoming Intent Series: How to Achieve Your Intention
Intent.com will launch a four-week series of posts designed to help you achieve your intentions on Monday, January 5, 2009. The series will be led by best-selling author M.J. Ryan, author of "The Happiness Makeover" and "This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True."
The first week will focus on getting clear and prioritizing what your intention is, followed by week two's in-depth look at taking action and finding information and support to move you closer to realizing your aspiration, no matter how big or small.
In the last two weeks of January Ryan's insightful, funny, and always practical advice will guide Intent's users on the really hard part of achieving an intention: keeping going when motivation wanes.
Want to get a sense of how the series will guide and motivate you? Here's a post that will run during the first week:
Finding Your True Intention
Author and physician Joan Borysenko encourages us to go beneath the surface of our lives to find our true intentions, which are "based on saying yes to your deepest longings…Goals rooted in what really matters are far easier to keep than facile resolutions that roll off the surface, right down the drain."
She gives the example of intending to lose 10 pounds by June 1st, something she failed at over and over. However, when she tapped into herself at the soul level, what came out was "I will care for my body so that I can continue to feel the pleasure of being fit and fully alive as I grow older." That was something she could really care about—and work toward!
What do you care enough about to apply the necessary elbow grease?
To Try: This practice comes from my friend Dawna Markova, author of Spot of Grace: Remarkable Stories of How You DO Make a Difference:
1. Write every goal you think you'd like to accomplish in the next 20 years. Write as fast as possible.
2. Then, write the number of years you want it to take (one, five, 10, or 20).
3. Circle the top four one-year goals that you want the most.
4. Write down some of the things you may need to do that you don't want to in order to make these goals happen.
5. Choose the goal that you are willing to do the hard things for.
Comments (1)
thank you. I'm looking forward to it