The greatest gift we have as human beings is our ability to consciously create our destiny through the setting and realisation of intentions. The start of the year provides the perfect catalyst and cycle of life-force energy to powerfully sow new seeds and to set powerful intentions for your new year.
Top 6 Principles for Creating Powerful New Year Intentions
So in this short master-class video I wanted to share my Top 6 Principles for creating powerful New Year intentions that will help you bring greater clarity, focus, and intent to what you want to create, manifest and receive in your life over the next 12 months.
1. Expand Your Tent, Stretch Your Desires, Dream Bigger
The number one reason that most people don’t get what they want, is usually because they don’t really know what they want! Getting clear on your intentions before the start of the year is a brilliant way to give your life greater direction and purpose.
However, as human beings we’ve also been conditioned into thinking too small. As individuals with truly unlimited potential, we often choose goals, outcomes and intentions that keep us within our same comfort zone. Instead of shooting for the moon and reaching the stars, we aim for the clouds and often hit the ground!
So this next year, make sure to set one BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) that will make you stretch and reach beyond your comfort zone. After all, it is only when we reach beyond ourselves that we discover just what we really capable of.
2. Set an Engaging and Inspiring Theme for Your Life
While goals and outcomes may give us strategic direction and focus, it is sometimes better to also set an ‘overriding theme’ or purpose for your life over the next year.
So if you could describe your next year as though it were a book title what would it be? E.g. From Rowing to Sailing, Stand Up and Stand Out, Inspired to be a Loving Mother, Money Mastery Made Easy
You set the direction of your life through your intentions. When you set a theme for your life it gives you reason to align your thoughts, actions ad behaviours each day towards the realisation of your theme and life purpose.
3. Look Closely at Your Motivations
When you set your intentions it helps to look closely at each one and ask the question “What is my motivation for creating this? Is it fear or love?”
You’ll be surprised at just how many of our real desires are driven by unconscious patterns and forces that stem from fear. And when we try to ‘create’ from a basis of fear we simply end up creating more fear.
So it helps to remember, that you may not always get what you consciously want, but you will always create in your life what you unconsciously want! Therefore make sure that your dreams and intentions are fuelled by love.
4. Turn Your Intentions into Symbols
Too often we get so caught up focusing on the physical and material aspects of what we are trying to create i.e. the form. But in the art of deliberate co-creation, we need to learn to release and let go of the form e.g. focusing on having the boyfriend that is 6 foot, tall, dark, handsome, rich and has the perfect abs. Instead we need to ask for what we want, and then trust that God, the universe and spirit will bring you this – or something even better!
A great way therefore to get out of thinking in the constraints of ‘form’ is to simply turn your intentions into symbols i.e. draw, paint, cut out pictures or create a mosaic of the ‘essence’ of what you are trying to create in your life – and most of all what emotional trait it would give you.
5. Make Sure Your Intentions Serve Others
When muscle tested, candidates that set intentions where there was only perceived or real benefit to themselves consistently tested weaker than those who set intentions that also would provide a benefit to others.
One of the keys to life transforming new year intentions is that the more your intentions serve others, or aid and helps some worthy cause, the greater the energy that surrounds them, and the quicker that they manifest on the material plane. Is it any wonder that it is often those celebrities, and successful individuals that contribute and serve humanity in greater ways that consistently seem to receive and enjoy greater rewards??
6. Expand Your Personal Presence and Self-Worth
It goes with out saying, that in order to experience more in your life, you first have to become a person that is capable of receiving more. Self-worth and self-image are inextricably linked to what you are willing to allow and receive in your life. Choose to see yourself as someone that is worthy of greatness, and you become a person that attracts greatness into their lives.
Visualising and seeing yourself ‘already’ as the person you most want to be, is one of the greatest gifts that you can give yourself. Is it any wonder that Jim Carey, Bruce Lee, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Oprah Winfrey all spent time imagining, believing and seeing themselves as successful at their ventures – before they even experienced it in reality.
So look in the mirror today – and instead of seeing yourself as you are – choose to see the amazing, brilliant and incredible person that you are becoming and being … right now!
Namaste.