The Power of Intention
Nobody tells us when we’re young that we have a purpose, partly because most people don’t even believe it in the first place. And even if they do believe it, a lot of people just don’t know how to live it and nurture it within themselves, let alone their kids.
It’s not necessarily something we learn in school, either. There’s this vague notion of “doing something with ourselves,” but not specifically being educated to live our individual mission.
We’re too busy learning the same things everybody else in the class is learning, doing the same homework, and anxious about passing the same tests.
As with many things in life, it usually takes some kind of pain or unpleasantness to jar us into new perspectives, new thoughts, and new possibilities. Thank the universe for adversity! Sometimes—heck, maybe most of the time—that’s what it takes to get us into action.
Only this time around, the action isn’t just our automatic responses to the programming we acted out for so long. We’re much keener to avoiding that pain or unpleasantness, so we start asking new questions, different questions, and better quality questions. In short, we start acting from whole new set of intentions.
We come up with better reasons to spend our time and energy in pursuit of what we say we want. It’s important to have goals, but you have to go further. The level of importance you place on your reasons is going to activate the power of intention. And intention is very, very powerful because it acts like a magnet.
When you have something out there that you want, it draws unto itself, so you need something that is really genericclomid.net going to ignite you to fulfill you, to get your passion up, to get your energy up.
Whatever your reason is for wanting more money, make sure it’s from a compelling inner truth. Even if it’s something like, “I want to buy a nicer car so I can feel better about myself,” if that’s true for you, then that’s your truth! There’s no one who can tell you you’re right or wrong. It’s yours!
People need more money to pay the bills, yes? Well, how motivating is that? ‘Boy, I really want go out there and work my butt off and have a new vision and do all this work and everything so I can pay the bills.’ I think not.
Know how I made an extra $150,000 in one month? I changed my priority of what the money was for. At first, I was looking for more money for more investments, but I already had some investments, and I did okay. And then I decided that I wanted to buy a condo.
And all of a sudden I noticed business miracles were starting to happen, money coming in from places we weren’t even thinking it could come from. Can I explain it? No. Why? Because it’s spiritually-based. You can’t explain those kinds of things.
Intention is focus internalized. Focus is the steering wheel; intention is the fuel that powers the vehicle. Don’t go for the regular. Go for the super-grade, the one that’s going to run your vehicle cleaner, stronger and longer.
We want to hear from you. Do you have any stories of how changing your intentions netted miracles, large or small?
You are Right Harv
Hi Harv,
Thank you for your information but when I read your message (it's not my first time, I red your book and another books for the same subject since a few years) I have the energy and I though “I can have what I want” and I focused on my dream each day. I was very sure I will have success, I moved, I started my career, but the time past, I pay my bills, I have less money each month (just enough to pay my bills) and I say “I continue, I will have success” but nothing. I don't know what is my problem or it's because it's your lucky life, I want like to know what I can do to result my problem. Sometimes, I feel that my brains have a negative part and a positive part and the negative part win all the time. Ouf! it's hard…..help me….
You just answered your own question! Harv says we have to tell our Inner Critic : “Thank you for sharing” and then just continue.
Another thing I found helpful is to be generous, to give without expectation, to love humanity, animals, the Universe. Just love others and give with Intention: Yes! With Intention! With the Intention that your gifts, wishes, will bring peace, love and joy and serenity to others. Emotions energize thought.
“The level of importance you place on your reasons is going to activate the power of intention.”
Re-reading this sentence over and over again in the still of the night gave me goosebumps. I likey!
The reason why we want more money should be an inspiring and motivating one :).
Hi Harv,
As you note spiritually-based occurrences really can't be explained.
I didn't date for a few years because the time wasn't right. After intending to meet someone I met this someone within a week. All it took was writing the intention down on a piece of paper and being clear on it. That's how the universe works!
A concept to keep in mind: when you intend something it's yours. The only thing preventing it's instant arrival is some resistance you have toward it.
Thanks for sharing and have a powerful day!
Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4H76PaFpmY in these days of positive and negative intentions, we just need to ask what our motives are? What do we want. The greatest gift to be given is the gift of health, and a wealth of it.
Too many of us are worrying about what we own, how much we have or don't have. These are facts of life, but we can't measure our dream on the size of our bank account. Life is full of opportunities to find happiness based on our motives and intentions of purpose.
I am recovering from a long debilitating depression. My truth tells me that I am NOT going to be a millionaire because I don't focus on being one. I respect you Harv, but I recognise that there will always be the haves and the have nots. Simply put it is my intention to get back to full health and enjoy the present moment … and bless the bills as they come in. Keep a dream alive in your heart, it is my intention to get better and to appreciate what I have now. Family, friends are what we have been given freely to prize and appreciate. Love is a gift we have been given, and we don't want to return that gift unopened. All being said, treasure the gift of life that you ARE. Continue to inspire us by your example – as you said to me “If you can do it, I can do it”. Thanks Harv, love and hugs, Virginia xxxx
Hi Harv,
Thank you for the great posting. I guess I know what you mean by intentions.
My problem is that I am doing great financially. It is very though in my case to focus for more. However, Althought it is though to confess, I would like to make more money just to feel more successful.
I guess I got my share from your write-up.
Serkan
Hi Harv,
Interesting article.
People always seem to focus on bad goals like “Making more money”, “Becoming a millionaire”, “Being able to pay the bills” and they are suprised why it doesn't come true. And instead of admitting that they set the goal the wrong way, they think they are just not lucky – bullsh*t.
It's really about setting goal properly or how you just called it the intentions. I like to think about my income as what I'm going to buy for that money, where I will be able to go and what I will be able to do. Much more motivating.
Keep up the great articles.
Vaclav Gregor
Oh Gosh Harv “Power of Intention” act like a magnet to everything. My “old” life totally improved, transformed and changed for the better. When I first attended your MMI – I have resistance at first – that's the “self limiting beliefs about money that's showing very strongly”. Fist day my intention was to listen to what you have to say. I simply immersed myself into the entire process. I was the first to sign up to Quantum Leap Program and the result? “Phenomenal, amazing, unbelievable, my life has totally transformed and changed.
I.E. I have no idea about how to write a book, I didn't even know I could write. When I set my intention to inspire and motivate people to live the life they could possible be, not only I became an author but a best-selling author and was even awarded People of the Year for spreading inspiration.
I set my intention to have a home with a view. Result a home with spectacular and breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean.
Intention to travel, inspire and motivate others to experience the same. Result not only a speaker but an International Speaker. (love this part 🙂
Intention life's filled with adventure, result how about traveling the world and covered 5 continents in span of 6 months.
I can go on and on but with the Power of Intention my life turned into miracles showing up with leaps and bounds. It's like magic!
My intention for more money now is to be able to continue to plant the seeds of hope, inspire, motivate, travel, speak, and more life's adventure.
And you are absolutely right, when we set our intention clear the magic start to appear. Can we explain this? No not really it is because we are all spiritual being. Am enjoying the process Harv well beyond my wildest dreams and I want others to do the same and more.. Aho! Harv am forever grateful and thankful I have met you. Happy Thanksgiving 🙂 Jhet aka Juliet van Ruyven
Wow! thats very motivating, can you summarise the key to unlocking ones full manifesting potential, and if the key is Intention can you summarise that? Please 🙂
There will be setbacks – just found this. Looks like a movie I'll have to watch this week. Check it out xx YouTube – Stand Strong – Movie Trailer https://goo.gl/ILF3D STAND STRONG XX
Don't give up Denise, I feel just like you, read the Tao of Abundance on Amazon.Com, come on, we can do it xx
When I work with clients I ask them, “What will happen that's negative when your intention manifests?” Oftentimes, they'll immediately say, “Nothing bad will happen.” When I ask them to go deeper and sit with this question they always come up with an answer that surprises them. They are amazed at the gunk lurking in their unconscious. Then we turn OFFF the energy around this negative projection so that they are no longer unconsciously broadcasting this signal that gets in the way of manifesting their intention.
Then I ask them, “What will happen that's positive when this intention manifests?” I can't tell you how many times people have replied, “I don't know.” Again, when I ask them to go deeper they are surprised at their answer and it opens a whole new realm of clarity, passion and possibility. Then we switch ON the energy of this new frequency pattern so that they are broadcasting it out as a clear signal, free of interference. It’s amazing how quickly your intentions manifest when you have a clear, specific and focused intention coupled with positive action.
That gives me some clarity, Thankyou
Hi Denise,
As Sloane reminds us, “Thank you for sharing” is a great way to acknowledge that unconscious part of you that wants to keep you safe in the status quo. Keep focusing on your positive intentions. Make them in the present tense. Instead of saying, “I will have success.” Say, “I am a success.” Get very specific. Define what being a success looks like to you. What does it feel like? What will happen that’s positive once you are a success? How will your life be different? What will you do that’s different? Answer these questions and then put them into the present tense. “I am …, I do …, I have ….
You're right there is a lot more than just positive intention to manifesting. Your conscious mind is only the tip of the iceberg. We all have negative patterns that are lurking just below the surface and these are what get in the way of manifesting our positive intentions. Also there's the overlay of your family patterns, our collective money archetypes, and the mass consciousness that may also be influencing you. If you want to learn more here’s a link to a free teleconference where I talk about how all this works. https://liztobin.com/freecall
Blessings,
Elizabeth
Harv thanks so much for posting this article. I made me recall something very important of which I needed to be reminded. Five years ago I became a single mom, raising 2 teens alone, working full-time, and with a twenty-something son in the Marine Corps deployed to Iraq. My life changed drastically, not because of my circumstances, but because of my changed thinking, and my focused and fueled intentions. I “decided” that I no longer had to be a victim (that is a choice, by the way), that I could finish things I started 5, 10, 15, 20, and yes, even 25-30 years ago, and one of those was finishing my college degree. I set my intentions to finish my degree, even though it meant going back to school for 2 1/2 years (although I only had 1 year left at the time I dropped out), and my intention was fueled by my belief in how important it was in any future success that I had in life. Not only did I earn my B.S. degree with honors (3.91 GPA), I also completed 4 other long abandoned goals/projects to which I had set my intentions. And like Harv said, whether I was right or not about how much the B.S. degree would improve my life, the level of importance I placed on it is what made it happen. I would like to add that during the time I was in school, I reduced my personal debt by $5,000, earned a $14,000/year raise, received $8,000 in bonuses, became a horse owner again (after 21 years without a beloved horse) and independently trained him to ride (my first attempt at training), learned to country western dance, and cultivated a wonderful relationship with the love of my life and man of my dreams.
So, what does that do for me now, as I have been kind of down and out, things not seeming to be working very well for me in life? I'm going to set my intentions and FUEL them!!!!!!!
Harv, my life has been completely transformed for the better since I met you in 2004, I am now financially free! thank you!
Here is a post from a blog that is my yoga dharma as I declared in Warrior camp, and I hope you like it. https://earthyogi.blogspot.com/2010/11/10-reasons-why-practicing-good-asnana.html
You are a great inspiration and influence!
Mmmm… this article droped in my inbox on Friday, I saw the subject matter as intention and thought… can't wait to read that, but let me close down my computer for the weekend and read on Monday. Having said that, over the weekend I had the thought at least twice that I must not forget to read the intention blog when I reboot the computer on Monday. With my weekend being a planned quiet weekend full of pensive thought with the intention to pull my vision together as my goals seemed to be just off or unobtainable at the moment. With this intention, inspiration and clarity did turn up in between doing the weekend things at home that I love. My head was sorted for Monday with a new found inspiration and clarity… Monday morning, my new felt inspiration lead me to flick back through my working diary for a name of a contact from a meeting back in August… flicking back through the pages in my diary which back tracked jotted notes the day new ideas turn up, right through to the plans, appointments and actions acheived from this idea – and from the inception of most if not all ideas I don't remember having the money to acheive it… It's then I could see how many of the intentions this year had come to fruition from my initial thought 🙂 and what has not yet been done is being done ! whilst this brought a smile to my face and made me realise it's good to back track in my diary for the days or sometimes even weeks when i'm feeling like the intention is not moving fast enough or even worse, thoughts of the intention being unobtainable, my next action was to read the Intention blog which really said it all… and… what a start for a Monday morning… 🙂
I have set the intention to listen to the Voice of Love and NOT the voice of fear…. I recognise that I am always afraid to try something new or to think of myself in a different way. This weekend I found this book and it made me more determined to focus on my strengths and NOT my weaknesses. In life we meet so many people who try to knock us down and we get into a mindset of being hard on ourselves, being victimised by the world, and worst of all glorifying in putting ourselves down. Maybe I am the only one aware of this habit, maybe I am the only one does it, I dunno but being aware of it is half the battle. This weekend I found the best book so far on the internet, and it is available to us all daily, if we give ourselves permission to believe it… and here it is, freely given to me so I could freely give it to you. Make it your intention to BELIEVE it with your whole heart, soul, mind and strength and BE STRONG inside your heart, I love you, Virginia xxx the link is by the way
Findhorn Press https://www.findhornpress.com/flip/Main.php?MagID=3&MagNo=6 xx This is the best book on earth right now, hug x
Hi Harv, I'm brazilian and a big fan of you. I need to tell you how much I admire you and your speech. An inspiration is what you are to me.
Thank you.
Ursula
ursulaferraricoach.wordpress.com
Harv,
During Train the Trainer, I set the intention to train millions of people to take control of their careers and leave their business leadership legacies. During the course, I was told that someone cancelled their speech at an advanced Toastmaster club, so I was asked to give a 1hour educational about how jobs come and go but leadership skills are forever. Everyone loved the educational, and now I'm branching out to doing teleseminars and customized consultations about how to be the best leader in face of any circumstance. It all started with the intention, and it was amazing how quickly the universe tested my commitment. As always, you're right on about intentions…they are very powerful, and I'm living my intention right now!
To your career success!
Josephine Hanan
http://www.YourTransitionSpecialist.com
Speechless ➠ https://bit.ly/dt7xL6 . ∞♡∞ Perhaps If I lived in US I would have the opportunity to challenge my beliefs by attending one of your workshops Harv but I live in Northern Ireland, and financially I can't afford to travel… How much do you charge?
Life is teaching me about priorities. Yesterday my car passed its MOT thank God…. But my computer crashed so this week, I had money priorities that thankfully I had planned for. No one seems to talk about planning for rainy days any more. Life seems to be full of wants and needs. Christmas is an everyday affair for many. The pull of wanting to have something right away leads many to buy something as soon as they see it, thus credit card debt…. I am trying to nurture delayed gratification…. It was nice when we were young to have to wait to Christmas for that new bike, or game that we always wanted…. The art of “looking forward to it”, the excitement of waiting instilled a gladness and thankfulness of anticipation which doesn't seem to exist anymore. All this talk of “GET RICH QUICK”, become a MILLIONAIRE, has robbed us of simplicity and gratitude for the little things in life.
I have posted the above link by Michael Jackson. It is his song “Speechless”. Today I hope you enjoy your presentation in Singapore… This song is to let you know that I love and respect your work, and If I had money, and the opportunity to attend one of your workshops, I would remain in awe and appreciation of the opportunity. We only have the present moment, so Pray my computer gets back safe and well, and I will pray that you have a great and blessed day.. love Virginia xxx
Hi Denise,
How great of you to post something so personal..
You understand the law of attraction but somehow it is not working for you? At least, it doesn't give you the results you would like.
About half a year ago I found this audio-book of Joe Vitale: 'The missing secret'.
This program helped me to fully understand why I got the results I didn't like and vice versa.
I'm convinced It will be of great help for you too.
I guess Harv won't mind that I recommend a program of any other, great teacher. 😉
I have had it work for me – the day the market crashed a few years ago, I made the most money I have ever made in my life (which isn't much!)but it is up and down. I didn't do anything to change my intention- it just happened. I was lucky as some would say. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Making money is mostly a struggle for me. Why is that? Is it something in my intention? I have changed my intention so many times and thought is was as best could be. I just want money to keep off the streets. I don't even get that. I won't ever be able to retire. I am always working on something to make more but it never is enough to even just stay ahead of the day to day bills.
Is that just the way it is? I wish it was as easy at that every day…
I love this blog. I am also trying very hard on my new opportunity. I need to look forward to my goal in regardless how many obstacles in front of me. this blog motivates me
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Thanks for this Harv. I want to share a small story I had with this. I recently discovered that one of my businesses was under threat (we were doing something stupid and didn't have any unique products). Anyway, we created a way to get more customers & then made a “backend” which now allowed customers to join us on a monthly basis.
The end result – we're now helping mor people every month with more unique products on the way 🙂
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Dear T. Harv Eker
I have got the life changing ideas from your book The Millionaire Mind. I have my biggest break through I have open a cafe which was my long term dream and it happened after reading your book. Thank you so much
Sir Harv
im a network marketer and still no progress, and i thank that i found you..
I am excited to read this TODAY. One of my dreams for years, is to grow up and my dad to build me a custom home. He was a custom home builder – he retired before I was able to make that happen. Several years ago, he built a house, right around the corner from me, and exactly like one I would have had him make me. for years I have drove by that house saying “I am loving living in my custom home built by my daddy”. Yesterday it went on the market and I saw it last night – and *added* to my *whys* of getting this house – then today in my personal development, I read this note from you, and about the condo you wanted to buy.
I remember setting the intention in March during the weekend that I would snowboard in Tahoe on Monday since it was raining. I didn’t snowboard that Monday but the Thursday of that week, my dad said we were going up to Tahoe this weekend to snowboard. The next week on Monday, we went snowboarding. Definitely the best thing I have ever manifested and it happened on the exact day even if it was a week later.
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