Angel Whispers is a weekly inspirational message from your angels by Russell Forsyth.

 

Week of January 17, 2010:

Goals or Intentions?

One of my readers asked the question, "What is the difference between goals and intentions?" She is such a beautiful person I was lured into the curious world of wonder around the words and language we use. Plus I'm married to her and thought I had better get on it (tee hee)! Besides, it is the time of year when we focus on our resolutions.

Intention might be defined as an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions and forms new patterns. While goals could be defined as the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior. According to Diana Scharf Hunt, "Goals are dreams with deadlines."

My thoughts around this discernment are that goals can focus on physical manifestations while intentions are connected to your spirit. The way we position and carry ourselves as we reach for our goals or the purpose behind the goals might speak toward the intention.

Obstacles might slow our achievements or prevent us from reaching our goals, yet our intentions stay intact and in some ways may guide us. The action steps taken toward reaching goals can be influenced by our intentions, like staying on a path that keeps us in integrity. Let's set an intention to receive information from the angels and reach for the stars that are sprinkled amongst the goals:

Your intentions should bear little focus on the outcome as the journey is more in the spotlight than the destination. Intentions connect you with your spirit in a way that can guide you with respect to action steps around reaching goals. There is a lot of information available that might lead you to believe that you can simply close your eyes while sitting on the couch and attract everything you need. In truth, it is your total participation that attracts those things you wish to create in life and fulfills your goals.

The best approach to this creation is having a range of goals and intentions that include small and large benefits or, better yet, that build on each other to create a higher possible outcome and benefit to others. When your goals are attached to what others believe and if you are basing your projections on how others might receive your actions, then you are vibrating with the lowest human denominator. That is why clarity and vision are essential aspects of setting goals and intentions that fit you and your needs.

If you include serving a higher purpose in your thoughts of goals and intentions, you elevate yourself from the mind that fills with questions around how you might reach that resolution. By clearing away past hurts and false judgments that have supported perspectives that tend to focus on failures, you can break old paradigms and release obstacles that are standing in your way. Integrity will align you with your goals and intentions while bringing peace and contentment that feed the soul.

If you must measure your success, be present in the conscious assessment of your reality while simultaneously connecting with your spiritual truth. Take a leap of faith that contains energy with a message that says you need not suffer or sacrifice, then accept that things are really very simple. Teaching only love is the best way to learn!

                       Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
                       Blessings, Russell

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The best approach to this creation is having a range of goals and intentions that include small and large benefits or, better yet, that build on each other to create a higher possible outcome and benefit to others.