Your Intention Creates Your Outcome
Posted on April 03, 2024 by Daniel Olexa, One of Thousands of Leadership Coaches on Noomii.
When you're stuck in a painful situation, do you jump to get away from it fast, or do you make a plan for what you REALLY want? This article will help
Have you ever been in a soul-sucking job or a really draining relationship?
As you were going through the challenges of the experience, did you pray, saying to yourself or God, “Please, just get me out of here. I can’t take this anymore.”
With that request, I bet you set your sights on the next job or relationship, happily accepting the first opportunity that came along.
And all was well…at least for about 9-12 months. Then the same stuff started repeating in your new experience.
What happened?
You fell victim to your own intentions. Or maybe I should say that you fell victim to your lack of clarity and conscious intentions.
Why wasn’t the next job or relationship ultimately fulfilling?
Because the intention you set for change was merely, “Get me the F- out of where I am.”
When you moved to the new, your intention was met and answered.
It was short-term creation to solve the existing problem, not long-term focusing to manifest your ideal outcome.
Your intentions WILL create your outcomes, whether they are conscious intentions or unconscious.
Let’s talk about conscious creation.
Conscious creation is the action of speaking your dream actively and with full awareness, then taking action to make it real.
We can also call it living an intentional life.
When you think about that old experience, what do you think would have been different about how you vetted the next job or potential partner if you had first defined your ideal outcome?
What would you have looked for in the employment opportunity? What red flags would you have noticed early in the process?
How would you have looked for in a new partner that truly aligned with your values and desires for a long-term, healthy relationship?
Breaking your old cycles to create the new you
You can’t change unless you are willing to change.
That might require getting uncomfortable. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that it will.
You’re used to who you’ve been. You think you know who you are, at least as far as knowing the stories you tell about who you are.
You’re bigger than those stories.
You’re the author of those narratives, and you can change them. If you are committed to becoming who you want to be.
I’m not saying it will be easy. I’m saying that you can do it.
Because I’ve seen it happen repeatedly in so many people I’ve worked with.
Who do you want to become? What dream is calling you? What frustrating experience to you want to leave behind?
The first step is not to jump from the heat of the frying pan.
If you do that without intentionally planning your jump, there are two very likely scenarios that will occur next (but will somewhat fulfill your intention for getting away from the heat of the pan.
1. You’ll land in the fire. “Out of the frying pan….” ;-)
2. Like a pancake or an omelette, you’ll wind up back in the pan. Only this time, your uncooked side will be down, so it’ll take a bit before you begin to feel the heat again (like that job mentioned above).It’s time to be the author (or chef) of you life. What are you going to create?
