In our ongoing discussion about achieving goals, it is important to understand what it is you want and why you want it. So today, I am going to touch on “Intention“. Intention means different things to different people, and today I want to make sure we are all on the same page. For this discussion, intention means your Deepest Commiment to something.

The concept of Deepest Commitment comes from Brian Klemmer of Klemmer & Associates and means that your intention is the deepest commitment you have to achieving your stated goal. For instance, you are reading this blog post right now because it is your deepest commitment to do so. You have other things you could be doing right now and the one you are most deeply commited to at this moment is reading this post (thank you by the way).

One of the problems that people have with their goals is that there really is no deep commitment to achieving it. Oh yes, they may want it really bad, but are they willinig to do the things necessary to actually achieve it. An armchair quarterback may say he would love to play in a professional game, but is he willing to put in the hours and years of hard training necessary to achieve it?

So if your intention is to achieve a particular goal – that is, that goal has  your deepest commitment to seeing it achieved – then you need to ensure you work on your intention. You must Raise Your Intention!

To raise your intention, you have to think about what you want, why you want it, or what it will be like when you go achieve your goal. You can do this by taking some time to focus on those goals. Find images or videos or websites about your goal. Visit a store and touch and feel the item of your affection. There are many different ways to increase your intention and they are as plentiful as the number of goals there are in the world.

For me, one of my biggest goals to is move to Costa Rica and live in my own personally designed home. To raise my intention for this, I spend time putting the details of the house together using a home design software package. I have added below my latest iteration (sorry about the cheezy background).

So find a way to raise your intention and make your goals and dreams become reality.