Setting Intention
My husband Lou and I came to California on a vacation many years ago. We both instantly knew that this was where we wanted to live “some day”. We felt an overwhelming sense of belonging, peace and inspiration. Our California dream was put in the attic of our minds and fell into a deep sleep. One evening twenty years later and out of the total blue, I felt extraordinarily inspired to act on our California dream. I had no idea of how, why or where, but I knew that we just had to move to California within the year, even if we just packed our bags and left. Lou knew this was genuine and true for us. He jumped right on board. Our intention was set within moments: “We are moving to California.”
The universe rapidly began to work for us in ways we could have never planned or expected. Within 3 months, Lou was living in Southern California with a job promotion during a time when attaining a cross country relocation in his position was the needle in a haystack. I gave job notice following my California decision and stayed in Ohio to finish my contract and sell our home. I began to build my growing coaching business. Within one year almost to the day, Lou and I were living in Corona del Mar, California, a mile and a half walk from the beach. Ahhh…
I witness our story repeatedly, albeit with different outcomes. Clients become entrepreneurs, authors, artists. They find fulfilling relationships, start their own businesses, increase their business size and profits, get a promotion, learn to enjoy “their own time” again, move, find a rewarding career, retire (“renew”) without looking back. They stop postponing today for some day. In other words, they become unstuck and start living a life they really want and they do it now.
What do inspired dreamers have in common? They are no different from any one of us. They have the same fears (“What if…?” “I should…”). They have the same hope that life can be much better. They follow their inspiration and intuition. They silence the inner naysayer, the saboteur who instills fear to lock them up in their safe (and boring or miserable) comfort zones. They focus on what they want and stop worrying about how it will happen.
What can we do to move forward to what we really want?
1. Get clear on what we really want. Create an inspirational intention. Stay with it. If it’s one thing today and another tomorrow, twenty years pass and we’re still getting what we always had. What is the ONE thing we really want? Name it. Write it. Say it. Post it.
2. Make space for new things to enter our lives. Clear our physical, mental, emotional and social spaces of anything that does not support our new intention. Distance ourselves from those who negate our dreams. How can anything new come in if we have filled all our space? How can we progress if we surround ourselves with naysayers?
3. Surround yourself with support. Create a physical, mental, emotional and social environment that generates energy for our new intention. Make a vision board of what our new life would look like if our intention had already happened. Associate with those who encourage and motivate us.
4. Allow it to happen. Get rid of old beliefs that no longer serve us. Dispose of obsolete conditioning that dictates antiquated thoughts and actions. Perhaps we “used to be” something we no longer are. What are your new beliefs about you as you are now?
5. Take inspired action. Follow our intuition. Our gut KNOWS: listen to it and act. The universe helps us if we take even the tiniest steps to move forward. Things happen that we would never anticipate. We draw positive events, people and ideas that help us on our way.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
