Great example of intentions and results
I think of myself as a rational but open-minded person, but one of the more “woo woo” theories that I strongly believe in is the power of intention. I believe that if you set your intentions clearly and deliberately, you will manifest those results in your life. Whether or not you believe in this as a type of mysticism or just a practical application of goals setting, I have done it in my life many times with great success. Many times without even knowing I’ve done it. (Unintentional intension?) I remember doing it deliberately when I got my job at About.com (then The Mining Co.). During the training/preparation series, I went to bed every night thinking “I’m really sorry for the other people who are applying for the HTML site, because it’s mine.” I also expressed mental gratitude for the person who ran the site (for a few weeks or months) before quitting and letting me have it. But what made me think of this was a post I read on Unclutterer today. She had made a resolution for February to clean out her office. But shortly after she made that resolution, there was a death in the family and she had to leave to deal with that for half the month, and she abandoned the resolution. Then, when she came home, her family decided to move and she ended up clearing out her office anyway. Sure, it mostly happened because she had to move, but that’s part of the mysticism (for me) of intention. If you are good at manifesting your intentions, they happen whether you mean them to or not. And I would bet that by setting and meeting monthly resolutions, she is good at manifesting her intentions.