You have an Annual Intention, now what?

So you set an annual intention, now what?

Setting an intention is not a one time thing and you don’t just throw it in a drawer and forget about it (unless you do! 😀). Just the opposite. You have to be committed to the PRACTICE of it daily.

My annual intention this year?: delight!

Our annual intention should inspire us to want to work on it daily, deepen it in all aspects of our lives.

When I wake up, I ask myself, do I commit to practicing this today? If yes, I put my bracelet on. If not, I don’t! When I am heading into a meeting I ask myself, ‘what would it look like if I chose to delight during this meeting?’ If I need to have a hard conversation with someone, I will ask myself: ‘What kind of conversation would I be having if I inspired delight through the hard conversation for them? What about for me? If someone asked me do something will I choose: YES! with Delight? (if Im committed to deepening this for myself, I will!). And if not, I want to consciously, choose, no.

So our annual intentions remind us how to BE in all aspects of our lives. It reminds us how to show up. What to look for. How to come to the table. Or walk into a room. Or approach our workouts. Or choose what we will eat today all day. Or show up for our partners. How to interact with our kids. Practicing intentions and ways of being, actually changes our DNA. It changes us at our cellular level. It is not about being inauthentic, but actually MORE AUTHENTIC to be more of the person we WANT to be. It reminds us to PRACTICE it NOW and create more of that all year long… and by the end of the year, it is my intent you will hardly be thinking about it but instead finding delight (or whatever your intention is) in life more readily, more easily. I look forward to building this muscle this year! What muscle are you building? I’d love to hear (comment below!).