Life Purpose: How Can You Tap Into Your Outer Intentions?

Gotta love the energy of young people, don’t you?  Their whole future is spread before them like a buffet.  Sample a profession here, an adventure there, a taste of love there.  “It’s my life!”  Listen to the power and confidence behind that statement.

Well, guess what?  You’re probably older than the high school kids in Glee, and you’ve probably taken a few hard knocks.  Maybe you don’t have that endless buoyancy born of inexperience, but you’ve got something better:  the authentic wisdom and confidence that comes from walking through the fire and coming out stronger.  More importantly, if you tap into your intentions, your energy will spark with the same electric vibrancy, without the adolescent emotional roller coaster.

Today we’re continuing the blog series on actualizing your life purpose through finding and activating your intentions.  Yesterday I told you how to unearth your inner intentions – the feeling associated with what you want.  So, today’s topic . . . you guessed it!  Outer intentions.

• During your life purpose meditation, I told you to focus on the feeling associated with what you want.  Now, to discover your outer intention, focus your meditation toward the actions that will bring about the desired outcome.  See how we did this?  We tapped into your power – your core of emotion – and now we’re putting that power to work.  This is so much more powerful than goal setting or making lists!
• Once your outer intentions are clarified, keep your focus there.  Don’t cling to what you don’t have; don’t put all your power into fretting about the fact that you only have three clients.  Put your power on the fact that you want – will – soon have the ten clients you want.
• Stay aware of the danger of getting bogged down by worry or focusing on your lack of success so far.  Remember the Law of Attraction!  Also, when you focus on the lack, it’s too easy to use your current circumstances to “prove” that success is permanently out of reach.  Why would you try to convince yourself that you’re doomed to fail?  Because change is frightening, and many people harbor the illusion that failure is someone less painful if you never really tried to succeed in the first place.  Go back to your intentions.

Let me say that again.

Go back to your intentions.  Go back to your intentions.  Go back to your intentions.

Got that?

One more time:  Go back to your intentions!  Tuning into your intentions isn’t an event; it’s a lifetime process of refining, seeking, and resting in the knowledge.

If you’ve ever set a New Year’s Resolution, you know how useless it can be to just “decide” to make a change in yourself or your life.  You have to know what drives you, and you have to stop fighting it and make it work for you.