Sit Experiment 4: Set an Intention

• AnneMarie Houlis, The Power of Setting Intentions – and How to Do It Correctly.  Shape.com,  December 21, 2021.
• Caroline Adams Miller, Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide. 2010, 2021.Intentions are closely related to goals, and all goals are not created equal. In this book, Caroline explores the qualities that characterize the most effective goals.

• Caroline Adams Miller, My Top 5 Tips For Permanently Disrupting Your Goals in 2020Here Caroline adds the idea of ampliship, that is, amplifying other people’s efforts.

Setting intentions is powerful, but I use it with an awareness that I don’t own the outcome, something I learned from many places but in particular, the following book:

• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.The realization that I own my effort but I don’t own the outcome has been liberating in more ways than I can number. There are many, many factors that contribute to outcomes besides our own behavior. Not owning the outcome softens our failures and keeps us humble about our successes.