Creating vibrant intentions

Practical exercises

• Visualise your goal as if it is actually happening to you right now at least once a day, each and every day. Physically sense the feeling of accomplishment you are after too. John Kehoe
• I make a list of all my desires. I will carry this wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into stillness and sleep. And when I wake. I release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don't seem to go my way, there is a reason, that the cosmic plan has designs for me grander than even those that I have conceived. Deepak Chopra
• The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they inspire your creativity and ignite your passion. Anthony Robbins
• You get your life to "take off" by first becoming very, very clear in your thinking. Think about what you want to be, do and have. Think about it often until you are very clear about this. Then when you are very clear, think about nothing else. Imagine no other possibilities. Throw all negative thoughts out. Release all your doubts. Reject all fears. Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original creative thought. When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. Use the great command that calls forth creative power: I am. "I am" is the strongest creative statement in the universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words "I am" sets in motion those experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you. N. D. Walsch

Intention with detachment

• Have intentions but don't have expectations, and certainly don't have requirements. Do not become addicted to a particular result. Do not even prefer one. Elevate your Addictions to Preferences, and your Preferences to Acceptances. N. D. Walsch
• Intention combined with detachment leads to life centred, present-moment awareness. My intent is for the future, but my attention is in the present. I accept the present and intend the future. I let go of my attachment to outcome. I enjoy every moment in the journey of life. Deepak Chopra

Develop the right consciousness

• When I have a strong intention, I set energy in motion. Energy in motion touches other energy in motion and remarkable things can happen. Susan Jeffers
• You can have, be and do whatever you imagine. Thought is pure energy. Every thought is creative. N. D. Walsch
• Want to change your circumstances? Develop the necessary consciousness. A successful person has a success consciousness. A wealthy person has developed a prosperity consciousness, and his thoughts are on abundance, success and prosperity. John Kehoe
• Your powerful, inner collaborator (subconscious) will bring to you the people and circumstances you require to fulfil your goals. "A thousand unseen hands", as Joseph Campbell describes them, will come to your aid. John Kehoe
• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
• So think as if your every thought were etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see, for so, in truth, it is. Book of Mirdad
• Consciousness is but energy in its finest and most dynamic form. This helps explain why events are effected by what we imagine, visualise, desire, want or fear, and why and how an image held in the mind can be made real. John Kehoe
• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

Focus

• Weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces. Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces.
• Through repetition, a thought can become concentrated and directed, and its force can be magnified many times. John Kehoe
• Focus! True direction is being woken up at 3 am and knowing exactly what your one goal is. Anthony Robbins
• Focus on what you want, not on what you fear or don't want. Focus on what you fear and that's exactly where you'll end up. (Anthony Robbins)
• The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Dreaming. Visioning. Imagining

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw
• Nothing happens unless first a dream. (Carl Sandburg)
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
• If the vision is there, the means will follow. Faith Popcorn
• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
• Turn on your dream machine. Create mental pictures of what you want. Peter. J. Daniels

The power of intentions

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The shortest distance between two points is an intention. Richard Carlson
• Whatever things ye pray for and ask for believing that ye have received, ye shall receive them. Jesus
• When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes the realisation. Lillian Whiting
• If you can dream it, you can do it Walt Disney
• A person expands or contracts the world to the dimension of his own vision. That which the mind can conceive and believe can be achieved. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Visualise!
• Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
• He who determines the end, provides the means. (Benedetto Varchi)
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Thoreau)
• Nothing magnifies your creative powers more than a clear sense of mission. He who puts in four hours of want to will almost always outperform the person who puts in eight hours of have to. How can you convert your have to's to can't wait to's?
• One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. (Alexander A.Bogomoletz)
• Realise the power of a single choice acted upon immediately and with total conviction. Anthony Robbins
• The ability to progress and achieve extraordinary results even in the midst of chaos is to take just one step at a time in the right direction. Anthony Robbins
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay)
• Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what his job was, the answers varied. 'Breaking rocks,' the first replied. 'Earning my living,' said the second. 'Helping to build a cathedral,' said the third. (Peter Schultz)
• We are more in need of a destination and less in need of a road map. Stephen Covey
• What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass. Colin P. Sisson
• What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe
• Your life proceeds out of your intentions for it. N. D. Walsch
• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Freidrich Nietzhe

The Flip Side

• If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there. (Sioux Proverb)
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. Thomas Carlyle
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Henry Ford)
• Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterise our age. (Albert Einstein)
• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
• Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. (Goethe)
• When you're up to your knees in alligators, it's hard to remember that your original goal was to drain the swamp.
• What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road? Bavarian proverb