Why Holding An Intention Is More Important Than Setting It
Download as PPTX, PDF0 likes712 views
Setting intentions is a fundamental human ability necessary for any action. While many people express their intentions as mere wishes, the key to success lies in establishing clear, strong, and persistent intentions to overcome obstacles. This document emphasizes that simply having an intention is insufficient; one must actively maintain it through challenges.
Why Holding An Intention Is More Important Than Setting It
- 2. Everybody knows about "intention," right?
- 3. It's one of those things you need to do to get whatever you want.
- 4. Set an intention, as they say, and all your dreams will come true.
- 5. Some even treat this mysterious thing as some kind of magic gumball machine.
- 6. You "think" of an "intention," set it, and forget it.
- 7. Like all you need to do is put your intention "out there" and some kind of universal wish-fulfillment center will deliver it right into your hands.
- 8. As you can guess, when many people "set an intention" all they're really doing is putting voice to a wish.
- 9. Here's the thing. Setting an intention is hard wired into every human.
- 10. It would be IMPOSSIBLE to take any action, even going to the toilet in the middle of the night, if you weren't able to "set an intention."
- 11. Before your body gets up and starts moving, it needs to know where it's going, and what it wants.
- 12. Which means the whole time your stumbling to the bathroom in the dark in the middle of the night, your brain is measuring your current "state" and comparing that to your "intention."
- 13. So saying that you need to "set an intention" to achieve anything is pretty self-evident.
- 14. It's like saying in order to breathe, you need to take air in and out of your lungs.
- 15. No kidding.
- 16. What's NOT so clear is specifically HOW to set an intention.
- 17. And even more importantly, how to HOLD an intention.
- 18. You may have an intention that's strong enough to get started, but you suddenly lose all willpower when you run into trouble.
- 19. Everybody and their sister has an intention to lose weight.
- 20. Some even get started.
- 21. But very few follow through.
- 22. Plenty of guys have intentions of going over there and talking to that pretty girl.
- 23. But what happens when she has the intention of getting rid of you as quickly as possible?
- 24. Just like Newton's Second Law of Mechanics, some intentions are met with an equal and opposite intention.
- 25. You may have an intention of knocking on some strangers door to sell them a vacuum cleaner, but they've got an even stronger intention of watching their favorite TV show.
- 26. And they've got home field advantage.
- 27. Obviously, having an intention is not enough.
- 28. If you want to get anywhere in life, you've got to set a clear intention.
- 29. You've got to set a strong intention. And you've got to HOLD your intention no matter what.