Intentions Matters. Goals Don’t.

We are never guaranteed tomorrow. So why spend so much time thinking about it?

By definition a goal is “an aim or desired result” for a future outcome. New Year’s resolutions are goals. What’s your success rate with them?

You set a goal for six months only to get there, and rationalize your performance toward it. Why? Life occurs in the present. Because the six months in the future became the present, and you lived the present the entire way toward it. External forces like time and circumstance greatly affect goals.

Intentions, by contrast, live in the present. When you set out with the intention to eat healthy everyday, you lose weight. If you get up everyday with the intention to read and write, you learn faster. Intentions are powerful when they are not attached to an outcome (goal). 

Why? Because intentions focus your effort on something that really matters to you today. It doesn’t focus on an outcome that is highly susceptible to external forces.

Aligning your passions, your thinking, your superpowers, your values, your work, your dreams to an honest intention will always lead to an outcome that is beneficial for you. No goals required.

Your intentions matter. What are your intentions?