Intention Week & Doing Better

My low key intention to be timely with my blog this cycle has been thwarted by the many things I have put in front of actually sitting down to write it. Today is Sunday and I’m just getting to the blog that ideally would have been completed last Wednesday--had I followed through on my ideal intention! I could regale you with the cool and/or ‘important’ things that have taken my focus and priority away from writing, but I think that would miss the larger point I’d like to make about Intention: we all want a lot more things than we are able to have. This is not only true for each moment, but for our lifetime. No matter what we are doing, there will always be things that we could have been doing instead. This is where our values list is helpful, since it lets us see a bigger picture about where we want to place our time and energy. It guides us - naturally - beyond the edge of our reactive emotional framework, where we frequently become tangled in one way or another. My busy week kept me from my writing, but it let me lean a little harder into some of my other intentions that were in need of attention. When I look at the whole of what I have accomplished since Wednesday, not what I haven’t, there’s easy forgiveness available for the things I’ve left undone. The more I prioritize my values, the easier it becomes to recognize where my time and energy gets spent in relation to where I’d like to be spending it.

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